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.
Politics has got so expensive that it takes lots of money to even get beat with.
Buchanan, if you ever hear of a group getting together to stop X, be sure to put your money on X.
Currency means nothing if you still ain't free; money breeds jealousy.
Selling pot allowed me to get through college and make enough money to start off in comedy.
It's very possible that I could be the first presidential candidate to run and make money on it.
The values of a society totally preoccupied with making money are not altogether reassuring.
The answer to any question starting, “Why don’t they—” is almost always, “Money.”
When a fellow says, "It hain't the money, but th' principle o' the thing," it's th' money.
Kyoto is essentially a socialist scheme to suck money out of wealth-producing nations.