Money and Power Quotes

The way we censor in America is the dollar. That's who censors.

It used to be that Washington admired Hollywood for its sex and Hollywood admired Washington for its power. These days, Washington admires Hollywood for its power and Hollywood admires Washington for its sex.

The rich follow Wealth, and the Poor the Rich.

The Premier League, the power of it sometimes overtakes the people involved in it.

Easy money, sudden fortunes, increasingly powerful political machines and blatant corruption transformed much of the nation; and the Senate, as befits a democratic legislative body, accurately represented the nation.

The rich man who gives, steals twice over. First he steals the money and then the hearts of men.

Until and unless you discover that money is the root of all good, you ask for your own destruction. When money ceases to become the means by which men deal with one another, then men become the tools of other men. Blood, whips and guns--or dollars. Take your choice--there is no other.

When once enthusiasm has been turned into ridicule, everything is undone except money and power.

Men and women both have an equal capacity to make money, but they want money for different reasons. Men want money for power and women want it for comfort, and usually not their own comfort, but the comfort of others in their lives.

The game is rigged to work for those who already have money and power.

The scandalous question that hangs over modern government and excites perpetual outrage is about political money and what it buys. What exactly do these contributors get in return for the hundreds of thousands, even millions of dollars they funnel to the politicians?

If you are going into show business for money and power, forget it! It won't happen. You don't go for that first.

When we do not adore God, we adore something else. Money and power are false idols which often take the place of God.

In the United States, it is all about money: those who have it and those who don't.

In this nation, leadership is dollars.

Special interests are interested in whatever's special to them.

It's all mirror, mirror on the wall because beauty is power the same way money is power the same way a gun is power.

Back in the day, in '91 or so, I tried to interview Fugazi for Rolling Stone, which the band felt stood for everything they detested about corporate infiltration of music. They said, 'We'll do the interview if you give us a million dollars of cash in a suitcase.' Which was their way of saying no.

It's wherever business rules, business is going to get the politicians they want because they control the money and money controls the power.

I've often said in the past that I thought MTV was sort of evil incarnate and signified the beginning of the end. And I don't know if I'm entirely wrong about that, but they did sign my paychecks a year ago, so I guess I'm part of the problem.

Money and power come as a byproduct of things well done.

Bankers also play politics.

That was the moment I wanted to use bitcoin: when I saw Harriet Tubman on a $20 bill. It's like, when you see all the slave movies, it's like, why you gotta keep reminding us about slavery? Why don't you put Michael Jordan on a $20 bill?

There are lots of actors who are awful people, but nobody talks about them being awful because they've made billions.

We have turned away from the natural world. Instead, it's all about money and power.