City of Atlanta Ethics Office

Ethics quote of the week:

"Integrity has no need of rules." - Albert Camus

Ethics quote of the week:

"We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but rather we have those because we have acted rightly." - Aristotle

Ethics quote of the week:

"What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ethics quote of the week:

"The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out." - Thomas Babington Macaulay

Ethics quote of the week:

"Character is much easier kept than recovered." - Thomas Paine

Ethics quote of the week:

"One of the truest tests of integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised." - Chinua Achebe

Ethics quote of the week:

"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." - Edmund Burke

📢 Training Update 📢

The Ethics Office was thrilled to partner with the Department of Parks and Recreation to welcome OVER 200 summer interns and camp counselor last week.

We hope that all of the new and returning summer employees have an amazing experience during their time with the City!

Ethics quote of the week:

"You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today." - Abraham Lincoln

Ethics quote of the week:

"The ethical person should do more than he is required to do and less than he is allowed to do." - Michael Josephson

Ethics quote of the week:

"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit."

Ethics quote of the week:

"The greatest homage we can pay to truth is to use it." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ethics quote of the week:

"There is no such thing as a minor lapse of integrity." - Tom Peters

Ethics quote of the week:

"Waste no more time arguing what a good human should be. Be one." - Marcus Aurelius

Ethics quote of the week:

"To live is to choose. But to choose well, you must know who you are and what you stand for." - Kofi Annan

Ethics Quote of the Week:

"You are what you do, not what you say you'll do." - Carl Jung

Ethics quote of the week:

"Relativity applies to physics, not ethics." - Albert Einstein

Ethics quote of the week:

"For every good reason there is to lie, there is a better reason to tell the truth." - Bo Bennett

Ethics quote of the week:

"Integrity is not a 90 percent thing, not a 95 percent thing; either you have it or you don't." - Denis Waitley

📢 Advisory Update 📢

Campaign season is almost here! Take a peek at our quick sheet for some answers to FAQs regarding employee political activity.

You can also visit www.atlantaethics.org/docindexer/E... for a deeper dive into the rules surrounding city property and campaigning.

Ethics quote of the week:

"No legacy is so rich as honesty." - William Shakespeare

Ethics quote of the week:

"Associate yourself with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for 'tis better to be alone than in bad company." - George Washington

Ethics Quote of the Week:

"If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito." - Dalai Lama

Ethics Quote of the Week:

"The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy." - Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

The Ethics Office is proud to present our 2024 Annual Ethics Report, highlighting some of our biggest achievements this year and providing an update on our vision for 2025.

You can find the document on our website using the link below:
www.atlantaethics.org/about-us-2/n...

Ethics quote of the week:

"What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make." - Jane Goodall

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