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We have always known that heedless self-interest was bad morals; we know now that it is bad economics. Out of the collapse of a…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

We now know that anything which is economically right is also morally right. There can be no conflict between good economics and good morals.

— Henry Ford

“Rational self-interest is always what morality boils down to.”

— Rebecca Goldstein

Politicians and corporations have always placed economic interests above moral interests. This is now hurting the entire planet.

— Marianne Thieme

Along with others, I have tried to pry economists away from narrow assumptions about self interest. Behavior is driven by a much richer set…

— Gary Becker

Economics that hurt the moral well-being of an individual or a nation are immoral and, therefore, sinful.

— Mahatma Gandhi

The moral sentiments that constrain economic life also promote it.

— Ted Malloch

That economics is untrue which ignores or disregards moral values.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Morality, like other inputs into the social process, follows the law of diminishing returns- meaning ultimately, negative returns. People can be too moral.

— Thomas Sowell

There are two principles of established acceptance in morals; first, that self-interest is the mainspring of all of our actions, and secondly, that utility…

— Charles Caleb Colton

The dynamo of our economic system is self-interest which may range from mere petty greed to admirable types of self-expression.

— Felix Frankfurter

Morals are a luxury of the rich.

— George Bernard Shaw