Integrity Quote by Abraham Lincoln

A moral rule is essentially 'advantage-reducing.' It prohibits you doing something you could do that would serve your interests at someone else's expense.

— Catherine Wilson

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

— Susan B. Anthony

The moral sense is always supported by the permanent interest of the parties. Else, I know not how, in our world, any good would…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Tis against some mens principle to pay interest, and seems against others interest to pay the principle.

— Benjamin Franklin

A moral principle is not a command to act or to forbear acting in a given way: it is a tool for analyzing a…

— John Dewey

Money, not morality, is the principle of commerce and commercial nations.

— Thomas Jefferson

We have always known that heedless self interest was bad morals, we now know that it is bad economics.

— Anonymous

Morals are a matter of private agreement; decency is of public concern.

— Marguerite Yourcenar

Moral good is a practical stimulus; it is no sooner seen than it inspires an impulse to practice.

— Plutarch

Principles do not mainly influence even the principled; we talk on principle, but we act on interest.

— Walter Savage Landor

Moral: Don't try to Account for Anything.

— George Ade

I believe the moral losses of expediency always far outweigh the temporary gains.

— Wendell Willkie