Monetary Obsession Quotes

People are only mean when they're threatened… and that's what our culture does. That's what our economy does. Even people who have jobs in our economy are threatened, because they worry about losing them. And when you get threatened, you start looking out only for yourself. You start making money a god. It is all part of this culture.

More and more I am certain that the only difference between man and animals is that men can count and animals cannot and if they count they mostly do count money.

Some of them [traders and planters] seem to think that nothing is to be regarded but Gold or Silver. They may at length repent the pains they have taken to teach the Planters to love these tempting metals, for should they ever prefer Gold or Silver to British Manufactures the Cloaths and Household furniture that they are at present fond of and be forced to make such things as they have not money to purchase Britain will reap far less benefit from her Provinces

People go to see beautiful paintings to see how much they cost. Wow. The practical value is that it shows you what the human spirit can do.

The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.

The law of England is much more severe upon offences against property than against the person, as becomes a people whose ruling passion is money.

The substitution of meaning accounts for the grasping of misers as well as the extravagance of spendthrifts. Karl Marx well understood this peculiar transformation of flesh into coin.

Not everything is about money. You didn't even say, hello. You are not your sad little wallet.

We have grown used to money. The handling, the increase of it, is the chief business of life now with most of us.

Money's important. Everyone cares about money. And when you don't have money, money becomes the overriding obsession of your life.

Only when the last tree has withered, and the last fish caught, and the last river been poisoned, will we realize we cannot eat money.

There was a time when it was considered vulgar and unnecessary to pursue money, but today anyone who doesn't believe in money must be out of their minds!