Rosabeth Moss Kanter Quotes

Capital as such is not evil. It is its wrong use that is evil. Capital, in some form or other, will always be needed.

There is nothing wrong with being well off as long as money has a social and ethical value and is not the object of one's own greed.

Today, making money is very simple. But making sustainable money while being responsible to the society and improving the world is very difficult.

If you have a sense that your money is somehow, even indirectly, contributing to a cause that you find morally problematic, then it seems somewhere between reasonable and obligatory for you to vote with your dollars.

People who have money have an obligation. I wouldn't say I'm entitled to tell them what to do with it but to use it wisely.

What counts is what you do with your money, not where it came from.

To fight evil one must also recognize one's own responsibility. The values for which we stand must be expressed in the way we think of, and how we deal with, our fellow humans.

Who touches money touches dirt; and the less religion has to do with it, the better.

...morally speaking, there is no limit to the concern one must feel for the suffering of human beings, that indifference to evil is worse than evil itself, that in a free society, some are guilty, but all are responsible.

Riches are a blessing or a curse to a man according as he has or has not a heart to make good use of them.

Nothing is more dangerous than to live out the will of God in today's contemporary world. It changes your whole monetary lifestyle...Let me put it quite simply: If Jesus had $40,000 and knew about the kids who are suffering and dying in Haiti, what kind of car would he buy?

Those who choose not to empathize enable real monsters, for without ever committing an act of outright evil ourselves we collude with it through our apathy.

Money, so they say, is the root of all evil today. But if you ask for a rise it's no surprise that they're giving none away.

Possession properly has two faces, two aspects: we all have a right to private property, but this is accompanied by our responsibility for its righteous use. These two things (which should be inseparable) are frequently divided today. Everyone admits that the farmer who own a horse is obligated to feed and care for it, but in the case of stocks and bonds, we often forget that the same principle should prevail.

This whole business of Trade gives me to pause and think, as it constitutes false relations between men; inasmuch as I am prone tocount myself relieved of any responsibility to behave well and nobly to that person who I pay with money, whereas if I had not that commodity, I should be put on my good behavior in all companies, and man would be a benefactor to man, as being himself his only certificate that he had a right to those aids and services which each asked of the other.

Wealth is not about having a lot of money; it's about having a lot of options.

Help and you will abolish apathy-the void that is so quickly filled by ignorance and evil.

Money, like any other force such as electricity, is amoral and can be used for either good or evil.

The part of the philanthropist is indeed a dangerous one; and the man who would do his neighbour good must first study how not to do him evil, and must begin by pulling the beam out of his own eye.

A man who knows a thing, who is aware of a given danger, and sees the possibility of a remedy with his own eyes, has the duty and obligation, by God, not to work 'silently,' but to stand up before the whole public against the evil and for its cure.

It's our responsibility to see to it that the good outweighs the evil and I am convinced beyond a doubt that today's Americans will do exactly that!

The desire for wealth is nearly universal, and none can say it is not laudable, provided the possessor of it accepts its responsibilities, and uses it as a friend to humanity.

Seek not proud riches, but such as thou mayest get justly, use soberly, distribute cheerfully, and leave contentedly.

The Pope appeals for disinterested solidarity and for a return to person-centred ethics in the world of finance and economics.

Whoever originated the cliche that money is the root of all evil knew hardly anything about the nature of evil and very little about human beings.