Quotes About Morality

In my day, we didn't have the cocaine, so we went out and knocked somebody over the head and took the money. But today, all this cocaine and crack, it doesn't give kids a chance.

The money paid at consumption is paid by everybody, including illegals, prostitutes, pimps, drug dealers.

Money is either a good or bad influence, according to the character of the person who possesses it.

Within the cult of Wall Street that forged Mitt Romney, making money justifies any behavior, no matter how venal.

The only reason I'm in Hollywood is that I don't have the moral courage to refuse the money.

People who relieve others of their money with guns are called robbers. It does not alter the immorality of the act when the income transfer is carried out by government.

The most merciful thing a large family can do to one of its infant members is to kill it.

Money makes even bastards legitimate.

There are two worlds: the world where nothing is sacred except money, an the other world, where everything is sacred.

You can take of a man's money, but when it's all said and done, you've only taken his money.

Great is the issue at stake, greater than appears, whether a man is to be good or bad. And what will any one be profited if, under the influence of money or power, he neglect justice and virtue?

When a man sells eleven ounces for twelve, he makes a compact with the devil, and sells himself for the value of an ounce.

God shows his contempt for wealth by the kind of person he selects to receive it.

The curse of covetousness is that it destroys manhood by substituting money for character.

Money: There's nothing in the world so demoralizing as money.

Anybody tells you that money is the root of all evil doesn't have any.

The money one gets for selling one's soul is always spent in deadening one's conscience, so the net gain at the end of a lifetime is no greater than if the diabolic bargain had not been struck.

I'm proud to be associated with the value system at Berkshire Hathaway; I think you'll make more money in the end with good ethics than bad.

Compromising your integrity for money, power, or fame will come back to haunt you.

There were few who preferred honor to money.

The man whose only pleasure in life is making money, weighs less on the moral scale than an angleworm.

Money is not good or evil. It has no morals or intentions on its own. Money reflects the character of the user.

Money is only money, beans tonight and steak tomorrow. So long as you can look yourself in the eye.

Most of the temptations that come to us to sell the soul come in connection with the getting of money.