Money-Driven Society Quotes

The unending chase for money, I believe, threatens to steal our democracy itself. I've used the word 'corrupting,' and I want to be very clear about it: I mean by it not the corruption of individuals, but a corruption of a system itself that all of us are forced to participate in against our will.

I just had it with the corporate money, money, money label thing.

I like where we're going with technology and global integration, but the fact that corporations and dollars rule everything in our lives, I don't like it. This isn't the Hollywood I wanted to be part of.

You don't want money to make you a social freak where you can only hang out with rich people.

There's a lot of bad isms floating around this world, but one of the worst is commercialism.

I just have a serious problem with business for business' sake: this bottom-dollar mentality. I have a serious problem with evil.

Status based on wealth is an old-fashioned idea; I find it repugnant, actually.

Television is just one more facet of that considerable segment of our society that never had any standard but the soft buck.

People think you're crazy if you turn money down... people worship money.

A huge dollar bill is the most accurate way to teach children the real motto of the United States: In the Almighty Dollar We Trust... Until the average American realizes that capitalism damages her livelihood while augmenting the livelihoods of the wealthy, the Almighty Dollar will continue to rule. It certainly is not ruling in our favor.

That one never need to look beyond the love of money for explanation of human behavior is one of the most jealously guarded simplification of our culture.