Lewis F. Korns Quotes

In every generation good men have been perplexed by the paradoxical relation between moral and economic values.

With a great moral issue involved, neutrality does not serve righteousness; for to be neutral between right and wrong is to serve wrong.

Always remember: the alleviation of poverty is never a political or economic issue - it is moral.

When your conscience says law is immoral, don't follow it.

Good men must not obey the laws too well.

Unfair servicing practices can worsen a family's already difficult economic situation, and the injury echoes from the family to the community and ultimately throughout the economy.

The issue of wealth inequality is ... the great moral issue of our time.

I think that it is morally wrong to be an economic determinist.

Opinions upon moral questions are more often the expression of strongly felt expediency than of careful ethical reasoning

Whether I give to a beggar or not, his existence puts me in the wrong.

The wretched have no compassion, they can do good only from strong principles of duty.

Any time the character is in a moral quandary is interesting. That's been true from the Greeks on down.

The difference is too nice - Where ends the virtue or begins the vice.

It is a sin not to do what one is capable of doing.

When morality comes up against profit, it is seldom that profit loses.

This society cannot go forward, the way we have been going forward, where the gap between the rich and the poor keeps growing. It's not politically viable; it's not morally right; it's just not going to happen.

Relationships do not preclude issues of morality.

One of the strangest things about life is that the poor, who need the money the most, are the ones that never have it.

Thou shalt not steal. I mean defensively. On offense, indeed thou shall steal and thou must.

There is nothing politically right that is morally wrong.

Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right.

There is no right in acting.

There is no moral precept that does not have something inconvenient about it.

If you know something is morally reprehensible, then it is your moral obligation to stop it as soon as possible.

Enhanced interrogation is not to be considered lightly, but the use of enhanced interrogation techniques does not require moral people to abandon their beliefs. Rather, it is precisely during these difficult times that one's beliefs about life, justice and mercy become indispensible.