Leonid Hurwicz Quotes

I will do everything by apply with all the legal and apply with the rule of law. And the main important thing that I have to be fairness to everyone, not just only one person.

Obedience of the law is demanded; not asked as a favor.

The people become more observant of justice, and do not refuse to submit to the laws when they see them obeyed by their enactor.

I just want everybody to follow the law.

If the church says you are not allowed to steal, and we will ostracize you in our midst if you did, if what a man has does not measure up to what he has, if we found that a man has more money than he should have, if a man is earning a salary of a civil servant or a public servant and he has houses everywhere, we have to hold him to account.

Globalization has made multinationals more accountable, and accountable to whomever has the highest standards, rather than the lowest ones.

Business rests squarely on the law of service. It has for its main reliance truth and faith and justice …. It is one of the greatest contributing forces to the moral and spiritual enhancement of the race.

Our rulers do wrong from choice and right from necessity.

Let no guilty man escape, if it can be avoided. No personal considerations should stand in the way of performing a public duty.

The individual is not accountable to society for his actions, insofar as these concern the interests of no person but himself.

We can’t be a scofflaw. It helps us to get others to follow the rules if we follow the rules.

We want to be sure that it is more profitable to play by the rules than it is to game the system.

After I asked him [a student] what he meant, he replied that freedom consisted of the unimpeded right to get rich, to use his ability, no matter what the cost to others, to win advancement. No decent society can tolerate that definition.

Trust and transparency, the great principles of the free market, are at stake here.

The proper function of a government is to make it easy for the people to do good, and difficult for them to do evil.

To err is human. To forgive is not SAC policy.

No man ought to be condemned for exhorting people to pursue justice in a certain line, though he may foresee that in the pursuit of that justice the opposition given to those who are proceeding in a just course may produce collision, and that collision lead to the commission of crime; but our duty, as I conceive, is to seek for the injustice, and there to impute the crime… It is to that injustice, and not to those who pursue a just course for the attainment of a right end, that the guilt is to be ascribed.

There is no justice in the world unless we make it..

There's no doubt my having been a ballplayer made me feel a special sense of responsibility to Joe Jackson's life.

We, as entrepreneurs, can be held responsible for our actions every single day, not every election cycle.

There's no excuse for breaking the law.

In our society, authority derives from justice, and in our society, learning to live with authority should derive from and aid learning to understand and to feel justice.

There may sometimes be a mistake, but I think that the citizens of America who are sworn to uphold their duty in a jury setting are going to try to do their best to do that regardless of the consequences.

I'm constantly having to check my conscience about what I'm writing and the responsibility of what I'm saying.

Our core values and business ethics will always be paramount in all that we do, and we are always looking to do the right thing and settle claims fairly and accurately.