Quotes About Ethics

Where money is an idol, to be poor is a sin.

If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.

If your only arbiter of anything is money, really you should... go and rob banks.

Contrary to popular belief. It's much wiser to take money from the poor than the rich.

Well look, no one takes pleasure from people making money out of the misery of others, but that is a function of capitalist markets.

I believe it is a religious duty to get all the money you can, fairly and honestly; to keep all you can, and to give away all you can.

Cause a man with a briefcase can steal more money than any man with a gun.

The first essential for economists ... is to ... combat, not foster, the ideology which pretends that values which can be measured in terms of money are the only ones that ought to count.

Never make a major decision based solely on money.

A rich man's faults are covered with money, but a surgeon's faults are covered with earth.

Recommend to your children to be virtuous, only the virtue can bring us happiness, not the money.

Give me a man who steals a little and I can make money

There is no idol more debasing than the worship of money.

We cannot gamble with anything so sacred as money.

One can buy anything with money except morality.

Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil. Capital in some form or other will always be needed.

Money isn't the most important thing. It is important, of course. I am not Mahatma Gandhi.

The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell.

The fellow has absolutely no principles."Money and gall" is all he has.

When I'm hitting, I'd play for nothing. When I'm not, any kind of money I receive makes me feel as if I'm stealing.

Men are more often bribed by their loyalties and ambitions than by money.

If time is money, it seems moral to save time, above all one's own, and such parsimony is excused by consideration for others. One is straight-forward.

If you real desire is to be good, there is no need to wait for the money before you do it; you can do it now, this very moment, and just where you are.

I see a government completely out of control, and money is number one. Integrity isn't even on the map.