Money Quotes
Karl Marx and Robert Kiyosaki are tied for the most entries here, which is about as wide a spread of opinion as one page can hold. The sourced quotes lean towards the sceptics. Thoreau’s journal for 1838 says the richest man is the one whose pleasures are the cheapest. Chesterton, in his novel The Flying Inn (1914), is less polite about the rich.
“The lack of money is the root of all evil” is credited to Mark Twain, and it does appear in a posthumous piece of his from 1905. It had already been in print, though. Wikiquote finds it in 1872, set in quotation marks as if readers would know it, and a similar remark about gold in a magazine from 1859.
My niggas stack their money just to spend it
'Cause, when you die, you cannot take it with you
Money is a corporate image depending on society for its institutional status. (p. 133)
The media today are controlled by the big corporations. It's all about ratings and money.
I’m tired of the bully trying to take our lunch money all the time.
The process by which banks create money is so simple that the mind is repelled.
One reason why money is a mystery to so many is the role of myth or fiction or convention.
The final step is when the new socialist society reaches the stage where profit and money disappear.