After a lengthy summary of corruption found among politicians, businessmen, athletes, scientists, a Nobel prize winner, and a clergyman, one observer said in a speech before the Harvard Business School: “I believe we are experiencing in our country today what I choose to call a crisis of character, a loss of what traditionally through Western civilization had been considered those inner restraints and inner virtues that prevent us from pandering to our own darker instincts. ”
उसने उन ‘ शब्दों ’ का ज़िक्र किया “जो इन परिस्थितियों में बोले जाने पर बहुत ही अजीब लगेंगे, शब्द जैसे कि साहस, सम्मान, कर्त्तव्य, ज़िम्मेदारी, करुणा, शिष्टता — शब्द जो अब लगभग व्यवहार में लाए ही नहीं जाते । ”