Money Quotes

Money degrades all the gods of man and converts them into commodities.

When a man says money can do anything, that settles it: he hasn't got any.

Gambling promises the poor what property performs for the rich-something for nothing.

Money is the most important thing in the world. It represents health, strength, honor, generosity, and beauty as conspicuously as the want of it represents illness, weakness, disgrace, meanness, and ugliness.

Money is indeed the most important thing in the world; and all sound and successful personal and national morality should have this fact for its basis.

The universal regard for money is the one hopeful fact in our civilization.

Although gold and silver are not by nature money, money is by nature gold and silver.

These numerous points at which money is withdrawn from circulation and accumulated in numerous individual hoards or potential money - capitals appears as so many obstacles to circulation, because they immobilise the money and deprive it of its capacity to circulate for a certain time.

We have the best government that money can buy.

I don't want to make money, I just want to be wonderful.

An actress is not a machine, but they treat you like a machine. A money machine.

I went into the business for the money, and the art grew out of it. If people are disillusioned by that remark, I can't help it. It's the truth.

Until they throw the money changers out of the temple of art, it will never be a real temple.

Giving alms is only a virtuous deed when you give money that you yourself worked to get.

Money is a new form of slavery, and distinguishable from the old simply by the fact that it is impersonal - that there is no human relation between master and slave.

Very well then; emancipation from usury and money, that is, from practical, real Judaism, would constitute the emancipation of our time.

Under the ideal measure of values there lurks the hard cash.

He who before was the money owner, now strides in front as capitalist; the possessor of labor-power follows as his laborer. The one with an air of importance, smirking, intent on business; the other hesitant, like one who is bringing his own hide to market and has nothing to expect but a hiding.

It might otherwise appear paradoxical that money can be replaced by worthless paper; but that the slightest alloying of its metallic content depreciates it.

The circulation of commodities is the original precondition of the circulation of money.