Unjust Gain Quotes

The trade of the petty usurer is hated with most reason: it makes a profit from currency itself, instead of making it from the process which currency was meant to serve. Their common characteristic is obviously their sordid avarice.

Those who devour interest will not stand except as stands one whom Satan has driven mad by his touch

But there are too many people that make so much money at the cost of lives of other humans and for no reason but to make the money.

And you shall take no bribe; for the bribe blinds the wise, and perverts the words of the righteous:

Consequently it will often happen there will be a desire of particular objects, in cases where they cannot be obtained without manifest injury to others.

The miser, starving his brother's body, starves also his own soul, and at death shall creep out of his great estate of injustice, poor and naked and miserable.

I want no money raised by injustice.

Public office must not be a means to profit or become rich.

Things gained through unjust fraud are never secure.

I don't need to show anybody anything other than getting the guy out who is trying to make his money off of me.

There is one kind of robber whom the law does not strike at, and who steals what is most precious to men: time.

The only thing worse than an opportunity you don't deserve is blowing an opportunity.

Civil Propriety is the Curse, is manifest thus, Those that Buy and Sell Land, and are landlords, have got it either by Oppression, or Murther, or Theft; and all landlords lives in the breach of the Seventh and Eighth Commandements, Thous shalt not steal, nor kill.

False riches, consisting of money, houses and lands, acquired by selfish means at cost to others and thereafter used selfishly, are almost always used for the oppression of other persons.

I insist that the commandment, "Thou shalt not steal," applies as much to the monopolist as to the highwayman.

You should not be taking advantage of anybody.

But every acquisition that is disproportionate to the labor spent on it is dishonest.