Martyrdom covers a multitude of sins.

-- Mark Twain

The obscure we see eventually. The completely obvious, it seems, takes longer.

-- Edward R. Murrow

Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right.

-- Isaac Asimov

Freedom is not merely the opportunity to do as one pleases; neither is it merely the opportunity to choose between set alternatives. Freedom is, first of all, the chance to formulate the available choices, to argue over them -- and then, the opportunity to choose.

-- C. Wright Mills

Borrowed thoughts, like borrowed money, only show the poverty of the borrower.

-- Lady Marguerite Blessington

Plagiarists are purloiners who filch the fruit that others have gathered, and then throw away the basket.

-- Paul Chatfield (a/k/a Horace Smith)

Never ruin an apology with an excuse.

-- Kimberly Johnson

There is no moral precept that does not have something inconvenient about it.

-- Denis Diderot

How a real publisher responds to allegations of plagiarism by one of its authors:

http://www.cbc.ca/arts/books/story/2008/04/19/edwards-romance-signet.html

Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputation and social standing, never can bring about a reform. Those who are really in earnest must be willing to be anything or nothing in the world's estimation, and publicly and privately, in season and out, avow their sympathy with despised and persecuted ideas and their ( Read more... )