Money Quotes

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.

The task of abolishing the essence of Jewry is in truth the task of abolishing Jewry in civil society, abolishing the inhumanity of today's practice of life, the summit of which is the money system.

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.

Gold is now money with reference to all other commodities only because it was previously, with reference to them, a simple commodity.

Capital is money, capital is commodities. By virtue of it being value, it has acquired the occult ability to add value to itself. It brings forth living offspring, or, at the least, lays golden eggs.

The writer must earn money in order to be able to live and to write, but he must by no means live and write for the purpose of making money.

These numerous points at which money is withdrawn from circulation and accumulated in numerous individual hoards or potential money - capitals appears as so many obstacles to circulation, because they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