These misconduct quotes will inspire you. Misconduct unacceptable or improper behavior, especially by an employee or professional person or mismanagement, especially culpable neglect of duties.
A collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging misconduct quotes, misconduct sayings, and misconduct proverbs.
Famous Misconduct Quotes
- “In most communities, it is illegal to cry ‘fire’ in a crowded assembly. Should it not be considered serious international misconduct to manufacture a general war scare in an effort to achieve local political aims?” ~ Dwight D. Eisenhower
- “When a wise man is advised of his errors, he will reflect on and improve his conduct. When his misconduct is pointed out, a foolish man will not only disregard the advice but rather repeat the same error.” ~ Gautama Buddha
- “But here’s my point to the LA Times. If you had a serious story to run, if you thought there was serious misconduct, you don’t wait until the Thursday before the Tuesday. You run it early.” ~ Susan Estrich
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“Study carefully, the character of the one you recommend, lest their misconduct bring you shame.” ~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
- “We draw the line against misconduct, not against wealth.” ~ Theodore Roosevelt
- “The business of popularizing crime is how we expose the faults in our justice system. It’s how we expose police misconduct.” ~ Bill James
- “All evolution in thought and conduct must at first appear as heresy and misconduct.” ~ George Bernard Shaw
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“Among Jews, there is an absence of drunkenness, always a fruitful source of domestic strife and misconduct.” ~ Hermann Adler
- “I think it is important that independent government agencies be put in charge of investigating misconduct so that police departments are no longer allowed to police themselves. There is a conflict of interest there which, I believe, allows police to excuse their own behavior.” ~ Bernie Sanders
- “There is this peculiar blind spot in the culture of academic medicine around whether withholding trial results is research misconduct. People who work in any industry can reinforce each others’ ideas about what is okay.” ~ Ben Goldacre
- “A consciousness of misfortunes arising from a man’s own misconduct aggravates their bitterness.” ~ Aesop
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“When you teach your students that it’s “economically rational” to commit crimes where the fines for misconduct are lower than the expected return on the crime, you instill a professional ethic that has no room for morals.” ~ Cory Doctorow
- “Great nations are never impoverished by private, though they sometimes are by public prodigality and misconduct.” ~ Adam Smith
- “In representing criminal defendants – especially guilty ones – it is often necessary to take the offensive against the government: to put the government on trial for its misconduct. In law, as in sports, the best defense is often a good offense. The courtroom oath – to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth – is applicable only to witnesses… because the American justice system is built on a foundation of not telling the whole entire truth.” ~ Alan Dershowitz
- “It is a just retribution for improper sexual misconduct” ~ Mother Teresa
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“Congress’ dynastic politics has shattered the hopes & aspirations of people. Congress hides behind the veil of secularism whenever its governance falters and its misconduct is exposed. This will no longer go unchallenged. The younger generation will not accept these actions of Congress!” ~ Narendra Modi
- “[Imeachable conduct is] misconduct by public men, or, in other words, from the abuse or violation of some public trust.” ~ Alexander Hamilton
- “If people of one”s own side have good conduct, it adds power to oneself. The misconduct on the contrary render one powerless. The enemy taks advantage of it. A skilled statesman never allows enemy to win over.” ~ Chanakya
- “It is very rare, indeed, for men to be wrong in their feelings concerning public misconduct; as rare to be right in their speculations upon the cause of it. I have constantly observed that the generality of people are fifty years, at least, behind in their politics.” ~ Edmund Burke
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“Do not you see that every misfortune is misconduct; that every honour is desert; that every effort is an insolence of your own?…You carry your fortune in your own hand.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “Despite all my public misconduct, in the past year, I had learned the Elemental spells, the Doppelschläferin, and the preparation and flying of a magic broom; I had survived two months as prisoner of war, saving the life of captain Johanne in the process; I had escaped the dungeons of Fortress Drachensbett, and after an arduous journey successfully reunited with my double, so preserving her, and all Montagne, from Prince Flonian’s rapacity, I would somehow master the despicable art of being a princess.” ~ Catherine Gilbert Murdock , Misconduct quotes life
- “The state, by relieving idleness, improvidence, or misconduct from punishment, and depriving abstinence and foresight of the reward, which have been provided for them by nature, may indeed destroy wealth, but most certainly will aggravate poverty.” ~ Nassau William Senior
- “The prosecution [of impeachments], will seldom fail to agitate the passions of the whole community, and to divide it into parties more or less friendly or inimical to the accused. The subjects of its jurisdiction are those offenses which proceed from the misconduct of public men, or, in other words, from the abuse or violation of some public trust, and they relate chiefly to injuries done immediately to the society itself.” ~ Alexander Hamilton
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“Constitutional provisions are not barriers to government misconduct. At best, they can be speed bumps.” ~ Arnold Kling
- “An annual or frequent choice of Magistrates, who in a year, or in a few years, are again left upon a level with their neighbors, is most likely to prevent usurpation and tyranny … If rulers know that they shall in short period of time, be again out of power, and … may be liable to be called to account for misconduct, it will guard them against maladministration.” ~ Clinton Rossiter
- “Among us, in our part of the country, those who are upright are different from this. The father conceals the misconduct of the son, and the son conceals the misconduct of the father. Uprightness is to be found in this.” ~ Confucius
- “Capitals are increased by parsimony, and diminished by prodigalityand misconduct. By what a frugal man annually saves he not onlyaffords maintenance to an additional number of productive hands?but?he establishes as it were a perpetual fund for the maintenance of an equal number in all times to come.” ~ Adam Smith
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“It’s so offensive that we have a man [Donald Trump] that has been accused by more than 10 women of sexual misconduct, not to mention fraud and bribery and all the other things that he’s being investigated for, and he gets a total pass.” ~ Joss Whedon
- “As to ethics, unfortunately, we are still at sea. We never did have any popular base for what little ethics we knew, except the religious theories, and now that our faith is shaken in those theories we cannot account for ethics at all. It is no wonder we behave badly, we are literally ignorant of the laws of ethics, which is the simplest of sciences, the most necessary, the most continuously needed. The childish misconduct of our ‘revolted youth’ is quite equaled by that of older people, and neither young nor old seem to have any understanding of the reasons why conduct is ‘good’ or ‘bad.” ~ Charlotte Perkins Gilman
- “Unfortunately I feel like a lot of the issues that the show [OJ Simpson ] was dealing with are still very much in the forefront of the American consciousness and the world consciousness today. Police misconduct was at the heart of the defense and Johnny Cochran did a masterful job at putting that defense at the forefront of the jury’s conscience as opposed to the double homicide of Ron [Goldman] and Nicole [Brown Simpson].” ~ Sterling K. Brown
- “The West has institutions that can punish the misconduct of individuals. What drove Rwanda and Africa into decline was the fact that certain people weren’t held accountable. When we move to make corrupt mayors or officers answer to the courts, people always immediately say that we are repressive. But should we allow these people to continue to get away with it?” ~ Paul Kagame
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“The result of Hillary Clinton misconduct was the release of thousands and thousands of dangerous criminal aliens who should have been sent home to their countries. Instead we have them all over the place.” ~ Donald Trump
- “Hillary Clinton told the FBI 39 times she couldn’t remember anything. I couldn’t remember, I couldn’t remember. Or recall key events concerning illegal server and related misconduct.” ~ Donald Trump
- “The notion that persons should be safe from extermination as long as they do not commit willful murder, or levy war against the Crown, or kidnap, or throw vitriol, is not only to limit social responsibility unnecessarily, and to privilege the large range of intolerable misconduct that lies outside them, but to divert attention from the essential justification for extermination, which is always incorrigible social incompatibility and nothing else.” ~ George Bernard Shaw
- “Nobody could say it is not gross misconduct to fight on the pitch with team-mates and get yourself sent off.” ~ Gordon Taylor
- “There are still eight of us,” Guy pointed out. “Not exactly an even fight.” “I was thinking the same thing,” Mauvin said. “Sadly, there’s no one else here we can ask to join your side.” Guy looked at Mauvin, then Hadrian, for a long moment as the men glared across the ash at each other. Then he nodded and lowered his blade. “Well, I can see I’ll have to report your misconduct to the archbishop.” “Go ahead,” Hadrian said. “His body is buried with the rest of them just down the hillside.” ~ Michael J. Sullivan
