Money Vs Moral Quotes

#1. Independent bread gives independent morals: - while pecuniary dependence makes moral subserviency; - So get money - get wealth

Susan B. Anthony

#2. Money can't buy happiness but it can buy a huge yacht that sails right next to it.

David Lee Roth

#3. And so, in the end, the question of markets is really a question about how we want to live together. Do we want a society where everything is up for sale? Or are there certain moral and civic goods that markets do not honor and money cannot buy?

Michael J. Sandel

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

Josh Billings

#5. The gentleman understands what is moral. The small man understands what is profitable.

Confucius

#6. Today we are putting our hopes in materialism, in technological progress, and in freedom from moral absolutes. They have all failed. They've failed because they've been powerless to change the human heart. What is the answer? There is hope, if we will turn to God.

Billy Graham

#7. When your toil has been a pleasure, you have not earned money merely, but money, health, delight, and moral profit, all in one.

Robert Louis Stevenson

#8. Every man owes a part of his time and money to the business or industry in which he is engaged. No man has the moral right to withhold his support from an organization that is striving to improve conditions within his sphere.

Theodore Roosevelt

#9. There's a certain Buddhistic calm that comes from having ... money in the bank.

Tom Robbins

#10. As soon as you bring up money, I notice, conversation gets sociological, then political, then moral.

Jane Smiley

#11. Americans like to make money; Canadians like to audit it. I know no other country where accountants have a higher social and moral status.

Northrop Frye

#12. The budgets we work on in Congress are more than just fiscal documents; they are a reflection of our moral values as well. In choosing where to spend money, members of Congress choose what priorities they value.

Tim Walz

#13. I don't need to be liked because I'm rich. There's more to me than just my bloodied damn money.

Cristiane Serruya

#14. Moral principle is a looser bond than pecuniary interest.

Abraham Lincoln

#15. I'm against government giving money to artists, but I'm not against artists taking money. Just like I don't have a moral problem with people taking healthcare from the government, but I don't think government should give it.

Chester Brown

#16. I have a merely ethical and moral relationship to collecting. Whereby I never collect things that I necessarily like. I collect things by young artists who don't have any money because I need to give them some money! Because I think that they should carry on whether I like it or not.

Ryan Gander

#17. The moral of the story of the Pilgrims is that if you work hard all your life and behave yourself every minute and take no time out for fun you will break practically even, if you can borrow enough money to pay your taxes.

Will Cuppy

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

Dave Ramsey

#19. The needs of a human being are sacred. Their satisfaction cannot be subordinated either to reasons of state, or to any consideration of money, nationality, race, or color, or to the moral or other value attributed to the human being in question, or to any consideration whatsoever.

Simone Weil

#20. A too constant preoccupation with money may seem to indicate the lack of a proper sense of moral values, but [let] those who have always had money ... be without it for a while, and they will soon discover how quickly it becomes their chief concern.

Moss Hart

#21. The world in which we now live is a world whose outlook is so distorted that we absolutize what is relative (money-making, power, success) and relativize what is absolute (truth, moral values, and God).

Alice Von Hildebrand

#22. The more cashless our society becomes, the more our moral compass slips.

Dan Ariely

#23. Typically, discussions of the safety net boil down to one side wanting to spend more in the name of compassion, and the other side wanting to spend less in the name of fiscal restraint. In both cases, money serves as a proxy for moral responsibility.

Todd Young

#24. Jamie was like no one else he had ever met. She had ethics; she had moral integrity. She was clearly not corruptible, at least not for money
that test was over.

Patricia Cori

#25. If there were one who lived wholly without the use of money, the State itself would hesitate to demand it of him. But the rich man
not to make any invidious comparison
is always sold to the institution which makes him rich ... Thus his moral ground is taken from under his feet.

Henry David Thoreau

#26. The talent of a meat packer, the morals of a money changer, and the manners of an undertaker.

William Allen White

#27. The moral is that in trading it's important to examine the situation from as many angles as possible, because your initial impulses are probably going to be wrong. There is never any money to be made in the obvious conclusions.

Jeff Yass

#28. If a state should pass laws forbidding its citizens to become wise and holy, it would be made a byword for all time. But this, in effect, is what our commercial, social, and political systems do. They compel the sacrifice of mental and moral power to money and dissipation.

John Lancaster Spalding

#29. Money has no moral opinions.

Abraham Polonsky

#30. 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.

Theodor Adorno