Asking Quote by Ken Caldeira

Together with the social responsibility of businesses, there is also the social responsibility of consumers. Every person ought to have the awareness that 'purchasing…

— Pope Francis

I have learned that the ethics of the so-called markets can be different from what we learn at school. In day-to-day life you have…

— Jorge Paulo Lemann

Markets are, in the end, man-made devices for utilitarian purposes, not a force of nature that we should not try to resist. If they…

— Ha-Joon Chang

It seems to me morally a decent society will try to take some of the increased benefit and use that to alleviate the pain…

— Tim Bishop

Consumers have not been told effectively enough that they have huge power and that purchasing and shopping involve a moral choice.

— Anita Roddick

“The sociopathic society of consumption depends heavily on goods turned out by dismal sweatshops (e.g., Boomer Kathie Lee’s/Wal-Mart’s Dickensian workshops, Boomers Steve Jobs’/Tim Cook’s…

— Bruce Cannon Gibney

I don't want to buy something that has harmed anyone. This is my absolutely strongest belief, and I believe other people think this, too.…

— Brunello Cucinelli

In every aspect of life, including the economic dimension, we are always challenged to do the right thing. In many cases in the market…

— Lee R. Raymond

You cannot advocate decency and ethics, you must design the conditions that eliminate the problems. In scarcity, people will tend to steal. If you…

— Jacque Fresco

Commerce is against morality. Morality is going to lose every time.

— Robin Day

A consumer doesn't take anything away: he doesn't actually consume anything. Giving the same thing to a thousand consumers is not really any more…

— Linus Torvalds

The question is, when so many others cut corners, shave the truth, self-deal, believe in the fast buck, and follow the crowd along the…

— Price Pritchett