Quotes About Ethics

Enthusiasm for conservation can be fashioned into a nasty weapon for those who dislike business on general principles.

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.

A large family and Democrats have a lot in common: teenagers and Democrats are always happy spending other people's money.

Money and power can liberate only if they are used to do so. They can imprison and inhibit more finally than barred windows and iron chains.

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

Where does it stop? You get offered money for your wedding, then for your kids, new houses, holidays... We earn enough from football and sponsorships, why do you need any more?

In the same way that a woman becomes a prostitute. First I did it to please myself, then I did it to please my friends, and finally I did it for money.

There is no accountability in soft money. None.

Money makes even bastards legitimate.

It's a despicable thing to share your personal inner torment for money.

That most delicious of all privileges - spending other people's money.

The only time I am ever miserable is when I do something just for the money.

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.

I find medicine is the best of all trades because whether you do any good or not you still. Get your 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.

Money dignifies what is frivolous if unpaid for.

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

Money can extinguish intrinsic motivation, diminish performance, crush creativity, encourage unethical behavior, foster short-term thinking, and become addictive.

PACs corrupt the system. They handle vast amounts of money and the money corrupts.

My job is writing. I get paid to do it. When was the last time you heard someone challenge a doctor for making money off of cancer?

If money help a man to do good to others, it is of some value; but if not, it is simply a mass of evil, and the sooner it is got rid of, the better.