Character Quote by Anonymous

“If morality represents how people would like the world to work, then economics shows how it actually does work.”

— Steven D. Levitt

“As we suggested near the beginning of this book, if morality represents an ideal world, then economics represents the actual world.”

— Steven D. Levitt

Capitalism actually encourages morality because capitalism can't function well if people can't trust each other and people aren't honest, if a deal isn't a…

— Rick Santorum

The moral sentiments that constrain economic life also promote it.

— Ted Malloch

Morality is the ability to see an issue from points of view other than just your own.

— Anonymous

Capitalism doesn't consider morality. It considers profitability.

— Steve Almond

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

— Thomas Jefferson

Where there is politics or economics, there is no morality.

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Morality represents for everybody a thoroughly definite and ascertained idea: the idea of human conduct regulated in a certain manner.

— Matthew Arnold

Morality is an utterly meaningless term unless defined as the good one does to others, the fulfilling of one's function in the sociopolitical whole.

— Ursula K. Le Guin

Morality is the custom of one's country and the current feeling of one's peers.

— Samuel Butler

Morality, when formal, devours.

— Albert Camus