Money Quotes

These numerous points at which money is withdrawn from circulation and accumulated in numerous individual hoards or potential money - capitals appears as so many obstacles to circulation, because they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.

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

Each piece of money is a mere coin, or means of circulation, only so long as it actually circulates.

Exchange value forms the substance of money, and exchange value is wealth.

Money is therefore not only the object but also the fountainhead of greed.

Money plays the largest part in determining the course of history.

I do not like money, money is the reason we fight.

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.

Just as it is impossible to know when a swimming fish is drinking water, so it is impossible to find out when a government servant is stealing money.

He who loses his money is forsaken by his friends, his wife, his servants and his relations; yet when he regains his riches those who have forsaken him come back to him. Hence wealth is certainly the best of relations.

I fear just one thing : Money! Greed was what motivated Judas to sell Jesus.

It does not require money to be neat, clean and dignified.

Modern poets talk against business, poor things, but all of us write for money. Beginners are subjected to trial by market.

It is an old maxim and a very sound one, that he that dances should always pay the fiddler.

These capitalists generally act harmoniously, and in concert, to fleece the people, and now, that they have got into a quarrel with themselves, we are called upon to appropriate the people's money to settle the quarrel.