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Moral principle is a looser bond than pecuniary interest. -- Abraham Lincoln
Corporeal punishment falls far more heavily than most weighty pecuniary penalty. -- Seneca the Younger
Only where there is pecuniary equality can the distinction of merit stand out. -- George Bernard Shaw
Even the law of gravitation would be brought into dispute were there a pecuniary interest involved. -- Thomas B. Macaulay
Crime, carefully planned and executed, is demonstrably the royal high road to pecuniary success in the United States. -- Ferdinand Lundberg
Independent bread gives independent morals: - while pecuniary dependence makes moral subserviency; - So get money - get wealth -- Susan B. Anthony
In a State, pecuniary gain is not to be considered to be prosperity, but its prosperity will be found in righteousness. -- Confucius
The idea is essentially repulsive, of a society held together only by the relations and feelings arising out of pecuniary interest. -- John Stuart Mill
No genuine equality, no real freedom, no true manhood or womanhood can exist on any foundation save that of pecuniary independence. -- Susan B. Anthony
No pecuniary consideration is more urgent, than the regular redemption and discharge of the public debt: on none can delay be more injurious, or an economy of time more valuable. -- George Washington
But I do believe that a woman's truest place is in a home, with a husband and with children, and with large freedom, pecuniary freedom, personal freedom, and the right to vote -- Lucy Stone
But I do believe that a woman's truest place is in a home, with a husband and with children, and with large freedom, pecuniary freedom, personal freedom, and the right to vote. -- Lucy Stone
I am not influenced by the expectation of promotion or pecuniary reward. I wish to be useful, and every kind of service necessary for the public good, becomes honorable by being necessary. -- Nathan Hale
There would be no idling in a co-operative workshop. Each workman, being an employer, has a spur to his own industry, and has a pecuniary reason for being watchful of the industry of his fellow workmen. -- Leland Stanford
The basis on which good repute in any highly organized industrial community ultimately rests is pecuniary strength; and the means of showing pecuniary strength, and so of gaining or retaining a good name, are leisure and a conspicuous consumption of goods. -- Thorstein Veblen

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