Quotes About Society

Politicians never accuse you of 'greed' for wanting other people's money - only for wanting to keep your own money.

Money degrades all the gods of man and converts them into commodities.

I do not prize the word cheap. It is not a word of inspiration. It is the badge of poverty, the signal of distress. Cheap merchandise means cheap men and cheap men mean a cheap country.

Take opera for example - to go to the opera you have to dress up in a tuxedo and pay lots of money.

A corporation's primary goal is to make money. Government's primary role is to take a big chunk of that money and give it to others.

When you say fiscal responsibility, it seems to me that you really mean rich people keeping their money.

What is the robbing of a bank compared to the founding of a bank?

The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other peoples' money.

If you're bourgeois, money is it. It's all the questions and all the answers. Ain't no E-flat or color blue, only $12.98 or $1,000. If it isn't money, it isn't nothing.

America has become the most unequal society among advanced countries, and rich people are now free to spend as much money on political campaigns as they wish.

Cursed be he above all others Who's enslaved by love of money. Money takes the place of brothers, Money takes the place of parents, Money brings us war and slaughter.

God did not die; he was transformed into money

There are only three ways by which any individual can get wealth — by work, by gift or by theft. And, clearly, the reason why the workers get so little is that the beggars and thieves get so much.

Money plays the largest part in determining the course of history.

Money can't buy friends, but you can get a better class of enemy.

He had heard people speak contemptuously of money: he wondered if they had ever tried to do without it.

The first essential for economists ... is to ... combat, not foster, the ideology which pretends that values which can be measured in terms of money are the only ones that ought to count.

Each piece of money is a mere coin, or means of circulation, only so long as it actually circulates.

Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil. Capital in some form or other will always be needed.

We are told there is not enough money for education, but somehow there is enough money for people to raise billions of dollars to defeat somebody in an election? Oh! Okay! Does that make sense?

It is so difficult to mix with artists! You must choose business men to talk to, because artists only talk of money.

The function of the press in society is to inform, but its role in society is to make money.

Funded by the government just means funded by the people. Government, by the way, has no money. It only takes money from the people. Sometimes people forget that that's really what occurs.

There is no art which government sooner learns of another than that of draining money from the pockets of the people.