Quotes About Morality

My final comment is that I still believe this man [John D. Rockefeller] is corrupt and he used unfair ways to become wealthy, all he cared about was his money and wasn't considered.

To withhold deserved praise lest it should make its object conceited is as dishonest as to withhold payment of a just debt lest your creditor should spend the money badly.

Who touches money touches dirt; and the less religion has to do with it, the better.

Those who set out to serve both God and Mammon soon discover that there isn't a God.

Money always talks louder than morality.

Taking somebody's sacrifices is like taking counterfeit money. You're only the poorer.

There are more important things than money. If I were motivated by money, I could have sold these documents to any number of countries and gotten very rich.

Whenever destroyers appear among men, they start by destroying money, for money is men's protection, and the base of a moral existence.

And we've got to ask ourselves some very serious questions as to whether or not certain religious leaders, in terms of raising money - I hate to bring this up - are pushing hot buttons.

When I was 16 I'd watch 'The Godfather,' but I didn't think, 'Right, I'm going to go down the barber's and get some protection money off him.'

Wouldst thou shut up the avenues of ill, Pay every debt as if God wrote the bill.

Money, like any other force such as electricity, is amoral and can be used for either good or evil.

When forging money, I had always salved my conscience by concluding that I was merely extending the lie of commerce.

No one can claim to be called Christian who gives money for the building of warships and arsenals.

Cultivated people should be superior to any consideration so sordid as a mercenary interest.

Journalism should never be prostituted for selfish ends or for the sake of merely earning a livelihood or, worse still, for amassing money.

Money is neither god nor devil, that it should make one noble and another vile. It is an accident, and if honestly possessed, may pass from you to me, or from me to you, without a stain.

There's nothing good, there's nothing moral about taking money from people who earn it.

People can so easily be tempted by slackness... and by money.

And it's very, very funny When you've lots and lots of money To be horrible to those with none! Be horrible to those with none!

Money does all things,--for it gives and it takes away; it makes honest men and knaves, fools and philosophers; and so forward, mutatis mutandis, to the end of the chapter.

Where's there's money involved, there are no good guys.

Is it any more moral to dilute the value of the purchasing power of the money you hold in your wallet than it is for the farmer to dilute the milk supply with water?

Surely there never was so evil a thing as money, which maketh cities into ruinous heaps, and banisheth men from their houses, and turneth their thoughts from good unto evil.