Pecuniary Quotes

This is for people who steal public property. This is used all the time, but not for situations like this. Because there isn't anybody in this for gain -- for pecuniary gain -- I think it's a bit of a stretch. - William Banks

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

There are many females of ability to whom the business of instructing children is highly acceptable; and who would devote all their faculties to their occupation. For they would have no higher pecuniary object to engage their attention; and their reputation as instructors they would consider as important. - Emma Willard

Moral principle is a looser bond than pecuniary interest. - Abraham Lincoln

It is one of the ironies of American history that the settlement of the Mississippi Valley and of the Gulf plains brought acute pecuniary distress to the three great Virginians who had bent all their energies to acquire these vast domains. - Allen Johnson

Increasingly in recent times we have come first to identify the remedy that is most agreeable, most convenient, most in accord with major pecuniary or political interest, the one that reflects our available faculty for action; then we move from the remedy so available or desired back to a cause to which that remedy is relevant. - John Kenneth Galbraith

If there were losses suffered by Mr. Kimberly, an adequate civil remedy is available to Mr. Kimberly for any personal injury or pecuniary loss. - John Peck

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