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.
I don’t believe money is evil, but it can be terribly corrosive.
For even money itself has no value if there is no network of people to recognize it.
One South African saying put forward that “the white man has no kin, his kin is money.”
I hope to save the country from corruption, all the money stolen, and give it back to the people.
A man with money will get you everything, but you will pay for it.
Haven’t you ever heard it said that money isn’t everything, but that what it isn’t it can buy?
It seems the more money they have the less they think of God.