Quotes About Society

Money nowadays is money; money brings office; money gains friends; everywhere the poor man is down. [Lat., In pretio pretium nunc est; dat census honores, Census amicitias; pauper ubique jacet.]

Our world has always had two kinds of changers, the social changers and the money changers.

Money does not arise by convention, any more than the state does. It arises out of exchange, and arises naturally out of exchange; it is a product of the same.

The political system is not for the people. The people are secondary to the economy. It's about what generates money, not about what benefits the people.

So many bands are like, 'I'm real because I'm dirty.' If you have money for guitars, you can afford soap.

When your time is turned into money, the felt presence of immediate experience is analogous to being enslaved. I mean, let's be frank about it, it is enslavement.

When we think of the state of the economy, we are not thinking in terms of money flow. We are thinking in terms of the effect on everyday lives of people.

What power has law where only money rules?

In societies of low civilization, there is no money.

What most people don't seem to realize is that there is just as much money to be made out of the wreckage of a civilization as from the upbuilding of one.

A rich man told me recently that a liberal is a man who tells other people what to do with their money.

I've never been drawn to the feminist movement. I was brought up to believe that men had little to do with the home or children - except to bring in the money.

Nothing incites to money-crimes like great poverty or great wealth.

When it comes to sexuality, people like to tell lies. It's only when it comes to money that they lie more.

Pass the pub that wrecks your body And the church, all they want is your money

Money-getters are the benefactors of our race. To them ... are we indebted for our institutions of learning, and of art, our academies, colleges and churches.

It is only the poor who pay cash, and that not from virtue, but because they are refused credit.

It's only socialism if the money goes down, not up.

Money is a way of creating scarcity.

When you're a big money earner and your husband isn't, it makes you question how feminine you are. I felt I was less feminine than if I was a supporting wife, or a second fiddle, or 'Mrs. Higgins.

Women love money. You give them a couple thousand bucks and they're happy.

The problem isn't too little money in political campaigns, but not enough.

I think when you spread the wealth around it's good for everybody.

I'm opposed to a lot of the time that we as a civilization have come to spend looking at screens. For my money, life is much delicious damn near everyplace but inside that screen.