Henry Ford Quotes

That economics is untrue which ignores or disregards moral values.

The doctrine of laissez faire is unsafe in politics and unsound in morals.

Markets need morals.

There is a moral underpinning to economics. And the kinds of questions that it asks and the kinds of solutions it proposes do seem to me to belong in a more humanistic framework.

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

Profit and morality are a hard combination to beat.

Economic issues are just as much moral issues as social issues.

We may draw good out of evil; we must not do evil, that good may come.

I try not to do anything that's immoral.

Capitalism without Judaism, Christianity, or some other moral basis is just pure greed.

Economics is built on the assumption of scarcity. Therefore, it deals with values and calculations. It cannot seek the good that fits a specific person within a given human condition. Where scarcity rules, ethics is reduced to numbers and utility. Further, the person engaged in the manipulation of mathematical formulas loses his or her ear for ethical nuance; one becomes morally deaf.

No social system, however, elevates "Goodness" to a deciding principle, whether the realm be art, politics, or economics.

Markets work; morals matter.

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

We ought never to do wrong when anyone is looking.

We have to stop allowing economics to be used as a trump card. Capitalism is like math. It is amoral. It is good at producing wealth; it's bad at distributing wealth. Unless it operates within a moral framework it will produce an unjust society.

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

Truth stood on one side and Ease on the other; it has often been so.

We don't need to be politically correct. We need to be morally right.

We have always known that heedless self-interest was bad morals; we know now that it is bad economics. Out of the collapse of a prosperity whose builders boasted their practicality has come the conviction that in the long run economic morality pays.

That which is selfish is immoral, and that which is unselfish is moral.

If thou beest ever so exact in thy morals, and not a worshiper of God, then thou art an atheist.

In real life, the hardest aspect of the battle between good and evil is determining which is which.

Conscience is what? It is putting together a moral act and a moral ideal, and measuring the act by the ideal. It is putting this moral act which you do alongside the eternal laws of God, and seeing how it stands by those laws of God.

A gentleman considers what is right; the vulgar consider what will pay.