Wealth Enslavement Quotes

How unfortunate and how narrowing a thing it is for a man to have wealth who makes a god of it instead of a servant.

Commerce has set the mark of selfishness, the signet of its all-enslaving power, upon a shining ore, and called it gold: before whose image bow the vulgar great, the vainly rich, the miserable proud, the mob of peasants, nobles, priests, and kings, and with blind feelings reverence the power that grinds them to the dust of misery.

The man enslaved to wealth can never be honest.

The private control of credit is the modern form of slavery.

A great fortune enslaves its owner.

In the long run men inevitably become the victims of their wealth. They adapt their lives and habits to their money, not their money to their lives. It preoccupies their thoughts, creates artificial needs, and draws a curtain between them and the world.

He has not acquired a fortune; the fortune has acquired him.

You see, after all, few rich men own their property. The property owns them.

At times, I can be a slave to money.

Money amassed either serves us or rules us.

Few rich men own their property; their property owns them.

To possess money is very well; it may be a valuable servant; to be possessed by it is to be possessed by the devil, and one of the meanest and worst kind of devils.

The lust of avarice as so totally seized upon mankind that their wealth seems rather to possess them than they possess their wealth.

Cursed be he above all others Who's enslaved by love of money. Money takes the place of brothers, Money takes the place of parents, Money brings us war and slaughter.