This country cannot afford to be materially rich and spiritually poor.
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.
It is the wretchedness of being rich that you have to live with rich people.
Through life’s dark road his sordid way he wends,
An incarnation of fat dividends.
If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning."
Our Lord commonly giveth Riches to such gross asses, to whom he affordeth nothing else that is good.
Men hate the individual whom they call avaricious only because nothing can be gained from him.
The hearts of the rich are hardened. The existence of the poor is a reproach to them.
For everything divine and human, virtue, fame, and honor, now obey the alluring influence of riches.
Money, make money; by honest means if you can; if not, by any means make money.
Though you strut proud of your money, yet fortune has not changed your birth.
Having, First, gained all you can, and, Secondly saved all you can, Then give all you can.