Money Culture Quotes

We've become a culture where earning money doesn't entitle you to it, but wanting it does. That is the essence of redistribution.

Their whole life depends on spending money, and now they’ve got none to spend. That’s our civilization and our education: bring up the masses to depend entirely on spending money, and then the money gives out.

Washington has become such a mercenary culture that there is no real political culture left. The defining exchange is money, not ideas, not problem-solving. We live in a democracy of money and images.

Somewhere along the way, New York became all about money. Or rather, it was always about money, but it wasn't all about money, if you know what I mean. New York's not Geneva or Zurich yet, but we're certainly heading in that direction. London is, too.

I find it hard to be labelled in this new 'super-rich' category because we all grew up with very little. The idea that 'to get rich is glorious' is really a new phenomenon. I certainly didn't grow up like that.

A lot that was happening in 2005, 2006, good and bad, the beats reflected it. It was a lot of money around. People was making music to throw money to.

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

I never talk about my money! It is interesting how awkward it is to talk about it, even though I talk about it in the abstract every day.

No one I knew talked about money. It's not an area of interest.

I feel like money is an interesting thing when you don't come from it.

All the messages our kids are getting is money-taking, not giving.

Benjamin Franklin and the whole idea of a new attitude to money: "Time is money." He invented that idea. Before that, time wasn't money in the same way; in the medieval age it was regarded as sinful for money to be the object of your life.

In real life you are doomed if you believe in youth and money, but not here in Hollywood. Nothing is what it seems.

There's this huge taboo around talking about money that we have as a society.

Historically, over the last two or three hundred years, the relationship that we've had with money as a society - having money, talking about money - has been a little bit of a shameful thing. Splashing money about is clearly wrong, but there's nothing wrong about giving it back.

If it be necessary, in order to bring about the end of a money civilization and set up something new, healthy and strong, that we of the so-called artist class have to be submerged, let us be submerged. Down with us. A little poverty and shaking down won’t hurt us …

The difference between being a rich guy in America and a rich guy in Europe is that in America people look up to you for being rich.

Warhol was questioning the capitalist society.

We Americans worship the almighty dollar! Well, it is a worthier god than Heredity Privilege.