This me-first-with-a vengeance-and-without-a-conscience is a key source of the financial and moral scandals that have dramatically eroded trust in business and government.
In February, a federal judge in Manhattan ruled that statements about safety made by officials after 9/11 were misleading and "without question conscience-shocking". Kareem Fahim and Diane Cardwell contributed reporting for this article.
Since that 2011 violation, the China's Water Ten Plan has been put into effect with stiffer penalties that make violation prohibitive, eliminating the corporate preference for just paying the fine as a cost of doing business and continuing without conscience to foul the water resources people and wildlife need to survive.
There were others, such as many of the weak men who ran English cricket and holidayed without conscience in the Western Cape, who argued that sport and politics should never mix.
I recently wrote to Edgerly about his experience with the Presidential candidate, and he wrote back that "Kerry is without morals, ethics, or principles and completely without conscience".
The ruling quoted from his medical history, citing case notes prior to his sentence in 1966 by Dr Lindsay Neustatter, senior physician in psychological medicine, describing Brady as "a ruthless individual, cold and unemotional, without conscience or remorse … He showed a pathological admiration of power and unscrupulousness".
And power without conscience is a very scary thing.
Let me be clear: The terrorists and insurgents in Iraq are without conscience, and they will make the year ahead bloody and violent.
At the custody hearing, Malcolm says, he prodded a clinical psychologist who had interviewed Michelle and her parents into saying that Borukhova lied "without conscience" and had falsely accused Malakov of molesting Michelle to manipulate the proceedings.
