Conflicted Quote by Elle Field

“economics was largely a form of intellectual prostitution where you got rewarded for saying what the powers that be wanted to hear.”

— Max Tegmark

“There is something immoral about abandoning your common sense in matters of social importance.”

— A.E. Samaan

“Wouldn't economics make a lot more sense if it were based on how people actually behave, instead of how they should behave?”

— Dan Ariely

“Ultimately amorality is immorality.”

— Roger M. Keesing

“Semantics and labels could drive you crazy.”

— Bob Dylan

“It is better to be a moral ignoramus than an immoral intellectual.”

— Stephan Attia

“we have smuggled in a misleadingly ‘ethical’ vocabulary to bolster our economic arguments,”

— Tony Judt

“...wrong to think the less of another for what he or she was. There was no moral obligation to like others, nor necessarily to…

— Alexander McCall Smith

“Sentence every immoral thought for detention and prosecution. Immorality is a powerful gadget that brings down great monuments of success. Don’t entertain immorality.”

— Israelmore Ayivor

“But the point is this Monsieur...the reason why Madame complains of you is not because of the immorality in itself; but because, so she…

— Daphne du Maurier

“Money might not be able to buy love, but everything else was for sale at a price.”

— Erica Spindler

“For fairness and loyalty, however important to the head, were issues that could seldom be squared in the human heart, at the deepest depths…

— Richard Russo