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“If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders.”

“To me, it really seems visible today that ethics is not something exterior to the economy, which, as technical matter, could function on its own; rather, ethics is an interior principle of the economy itself, which cannot function if it does not take account of the human values of solidarity and reciprocal responsibility.”

“Necessity may well be called the mother of invention but calamity is the test of integrity.”

“I'm not concerned with your liking or disliking me... All I ask is that you respect me as a human being.”

“Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip.”

“It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.”

“Remember always that you have not only the right to be an individual; you have an obligation to be one.”

“As for money and prestige, if one has an opportunity to make money and/or advance their position or place in life there can be a lot to weigh and consider, such as responsibilities, goals and objectives etc. We all make choices, deal with our sense of priorities, principles, ethics, morals, balancing, juggling, making compromises... or not! Ha!”

“To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education.”

“Stabilizing the euro is one thing, healing the culture that surrounds it is another. A world in which material values are everything and spiritual values nothing is neither a stable state nor a good society. The time has come for us to recover the Judeo-Christian ethic of human dignity in the image of God.”

“The more moral the people are in their business dealings, the less paperwork you need, the more handshakes you can have, the more the wheels of capitalism work better because there's trust in the marketplace. Business ethics is not a joke. And, in fact, I think most businesses that I've dealt with encourage exactly that type of behavior.”

“Compassion, in which all ethics must take root, can only attain its full breadth and depth if it embraces all living creatures and does not limit itself to mankind.”