ethical finance Quotes

For I can raise no money by vile means.

I believe in humanitarian capitalism, and there are good people on Wall Street.

I was really interested in a pretty simple thing: what happens when someone tries to introduce moral considerations into Wall Street, what happens when someone wants to actually demand of himself and those who work with him that what they do is not just profitable but good and useful.

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.

Seneca devoted much of his time to writing essays in praise of poverty, and in lending money at usurious rates.

Wall Street has a few prudent principles; the trouble is that they are always forgotten when they are most needed.

Money should never be separated from values. Detached from values it may indeed be the root of all evil. Linked effectively to social purpose it can be the root of opportunity.

Banks need to think through their ethics very carefully, and many have done so. I don't know any bank that dismisses the concept of ethical banking.

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

Money at the service of life can be managed in the right way by cooperatives, on condition that it is a real cooperative where capital does not have command over men but men over capital.

Tis against some mens principle to pay interest, and seems against others interest to pay the principle.

You must place interest in principle above interest on principal.

When people reflexively write checks to institutions that have billions of dollars in the bank, they are essentially committing a moral crime. Your money could do good in this world and you're choosing instead to waste it. People have to do a better job of that. You've got to find places where your money's going to do some good and direct your dollars towards that institution.

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

There are a lot of ethical firms on Wall Street.

Money must serve, not rule! The Pope loves everyone, rich and poor alike, but he is obliged in the name of Christ to remind all that the rich must help, respect and promote the poor. I exhort you to generous solidarity and a return of economics and finance to an ethical approach which favours human beings.

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

I was the head of fundraising for the Women's March, and I chose not to take money from corporations.

The sense of responsibility in the financial community for the community as a whole is not small. It is nearly nil.

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