Quotes About Society

It's horrible how money and fame can make you acceptable while, if you're not famous or rich, you're not acceptable.

The big lie is that the people who make a lot of money were the only ones that worked hard.

Money: in its absence, we are coarse; in its presence, we are vulgar.

All the messages our kids are getting is money-taking, not giving.

Undermine the entire economic structure of society by leaving the pay toilet door ajar so the next person can get in free.

I am only interested in money because everyone else is.

The ordinary bloke will not voluntarily pay for "art" that leaves him unmoved--if he does pay for it, the money has to be conned out of him, by taxes and such.

If we don't value the people who inspire us (and money is one mark of that) then what kind of culture are we building?

No gentleman ever has any money.

Government is violence masquerading as answers to strangers' problems using other peoples' money.

Only the powerless live in a money culture and know nothing about money.

The very poor are strictly materialistic. It takes money to be a mystic.

There was a time when it was considered vulgar and unnecessary to pursue money, but today anyone who doesn't believe in money must be out of their minds!

It's amazing that no matter how much money you have, you can make some bad decisions, and in five months you're on the street, begging.

Recognition of one's fellows is distorted when money is prioritized as value itself.

Money is the counter that enables life to be lived socially; it is life as truly as sovereigns and banknotes are money.

. . . money . . . is really the difference between men and animals, most of the things men feel, animals feel, and vice versa, but animals do not know about money.

It's vulgar, coming from where I do, to talk about money.

The law of England is much more severe upon offences against property than against the person, as becomes a people whose ruling passion is money.

The popular notion that an increase in the stock of money is socially and economically beneficial and desirable is one of the great fallacies of our time.

Art is sexy! Art is money-sexy! Art is money-sexy-social-climbing-fantastic!

The true meaning of money yet remains to be popularly explained and comprehended.

I feel like there are so few girls in New York like that anymore, who are not focused on getting a man with money.

I am in an age group where it is rude to discuss money, and now it is all anyone cares about.