Approach Quote by Paul Ryan

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

— Thomas Jefferson

Money, not morality, is the principle commerce of civilized nations.

— Thomas Jefferson

That economics is untrue which ignores or disregards moral values.

— Mahatma Gandhi

I think there's a real tension between capitalism and morality. That's not to say these systems aren't powerful and useful, but to assume that…

— Michael Pollan

In the business arena, the standard rules of morality don't apply. What we're really looking for is efficiency. It doesn't do anyone any good…

— H. W. Brands

A tension has always existed between the capitalist imperative to maximize efficiency at any cost and the moral imperatives of culture, which historically have…

— Michael Pollan

The balance of private good and general welfare is at the bottom of civilized morals but the morals of the Heroic Age are founded…

— Lascelles Abercrombie

There is no system that is inherently moral if the participants themselves are not.

— Lee R. Raymond

Government by the people for the people becomes meaningless unless it includes major economic decision-making by the people for the people. This is not…

— Jimmy Reid

Morality is the object of government.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

In a free government the demand for moral qualities should be made superior to that of talents.

— Andrew Jackson

Personally, I think it is possible to build a society that is moral on a nonreligious basis, but the jury is still out on…

— Frans de Waal