Volkswagen and the Future of Honesty

Honesty is the best policy.

I would never question his honesty.

But economists should match honesty about what their research says with honesty about the inherently provisional nature of what passes as evidence in their profession.

There is no doubt about his honesty.

I don't for a moment doubt your honesty.

Buy the goods of villagers in all honesty and without stealing.

In any case, India s elections have a reputation for honesty.

I cannot guarantee that reading more widely will teach him honesty, humility, and civility.

Once more, humility, limits, honesty, realistic expectations and we could have achieved something to be proud of.

So the point of all this for us today is not just hopefully honesty for the sake of honesty, but a hope that by being more honest and candid about these experiences, that we can all collectively bend that happiness baseline up a little bit.

Translating mutual recognition of this into reality will require intellectual honesty and political investment on both sides of the Atlantic.

Accusations that Switzerland is a tax haven usually come from countries that have a low level of taxpayer honesty.

Their literary power derives from their authors courage to ask awkward questions and write with honesty.

The legal enforcement of honesty in keeping and reporting financial records is an indispensable feature of a well functioning market economy.

To succeed requires programmatic clarity, organizational honesty, and an understanding of the concerns of societies that have lost their traditional structures.

And tell it we must, especially with all of our talks about honesty and how Mama and Daddy aren t perfect.

His victory shows that it is possible to succeed in politics through decency, honesty, and high intelligence.

Some Romanian refugees were already candidates for the local elections, praised for their hard work and honesty.

Toledo's advisors had urged honesty, assuring him that he would rise in public esteem by coming clean.

The Swiss state, by contrast, has an excellent relationship with its taxpayers, and there is a correspondingly high level of taxpayer honesty.

It s a kind of scientific integrity, a principle of scientific thought that corresponds to a kind of utter honesty a kind of leaning over backwards.

Like any market, however, the marketplace of ideas needs regulation in particular, its participants should be bound by norms of honesty, humility, and civility.

Like any market, however, the marketplace of ideas needs regulation in particular, its participants should be bound by norms of honesty, humility, and civility.

But, until recently, it was assumed that persons appointed to advise the sovereign were already of sufficient honesty and integrity to do so.

Like Hungary, post communist Romania has struggled to increase transparency and honesty in what was once one of the world s most closed societies.

And I can with all honesty look her in the eye and say, Because our pheromones matched our olfactory receptors.

Meanwhile, the blogger Someone has decided that honesty is the best policy Pseudonyms give writers the scope to write about everything.

Sense

Known for both his radicalism and his honesty, Cárdenas refused to live in the presidential palace and cut his salary in half.

It does not make political sense it does not make economic sense it does not make ethical sense.

And that this, of course, one of the themes for us is that we think that candor and brutal honesty is critical to us collectively being great parents.

For kings, and for all that are in authority that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty.

Through its commitment to transparency, honesty and professionalism, the Court has earned wide respect and enjoys increasingly strong support within the international community.

Common sense, a rare idea in the law, but here it was. Common sense Revolts at the idea. Common sense.

In other words, Europe displays a strong sense of survival, but not a strong sense of common purpose.

The Chinese people will no longer know what is personal honesty or historical truth, and they will repeatedly abuse, miss, or forsake historic opportunities.

I could continue, but I would like to point out that it is important that we base our dialogue on honesty and on facts.

Nothing seems to make sense now. But one thing does make sense.

Is there a sense of wonder?

Tom lost his sense of smell.

They have a sense of humor.

The Iraqis sense all of this.

Making Sense of the Climate Impasse

It was sort of, in a certain sense, in a McLuhan sense, an external stomach, in the sense that it was cooking food that we could not eat otherwise.