Quotes About Ethics

Money is to be sought for first of all; virtue after wealth. [Lat., Quaerenda pecunia primum est; virtus post nummos.]

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.'

Whoever plays deep must necessarily lose his money or his character.

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.

Of wanting to pay my own way. I never asked my parents for money. I preferred to steal from my parents than ask them for money.

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

If I feel strongly, I say it. I know I can do more good by being vocal than by staying quiet. I'd have a whole lot more money if I lied, but I wouldn't enjoy spending it.

No one should approach the temple of science with the soul of a money changer.

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

It's not selling out, it is called making lots of money.

Let us keep a firm grip upon our money, for without it the whole assembly of virtues are but as blades of grass.

I always remember my dad saying, "No one makes a remake unless they are trying to make money; there is no reason for it." It was not an honorable thing to do.

If they ask you to sign a contract up front or for money, that's usually a bad sign.

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

I wouldnt want to be remembered as the guy who contaminated a perfectly legitimate form of protest art with money and celebrities.

I learned to do with little. And that's why today, I only spend the taxpayers' money like I spend my own, which is seldom. The people of Mississauga love that.

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.

The fact that you are giving money to charity does not mean that you need not try to find out whether that charity is a fraud or not.

Speech doesn't corrupt. Money corrupts, and money isn't speech.

All mentally well-balanced persons know that we are not governed by the true principals of social justice when we make the main aim of our social existence the gaining of money.

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