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 was constantly looking for money to survive and take care of the children I was responsible for.
Church money is not my money and I know that quite well. God blesses me, and that suffices.
[Military assistance to Ukraine] The best money we’ve ever spent.
It's more difficult, you know, to bring about positive change than it is to make money.
I began to visit Armenia as soon as I had earned the necessary money.
[The rich] are indeed rather possessed by their money than possessors.