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Quotes About Wealth

Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
Being broke is against my religion.
~ Curtis Jackson
Banks have done more injury to the religion, morality, tranquility, prosperity, and even wealth of the nation than they can have done or ever will do good.
~ John Adams
Greed is really the religion of vulgarity.
~ Massimo Vignelli
Religions tend to disappear with man's good fortune.
~ Raymond Queneau
Consumerism is our national religion.
~ Jennifer Stone
Monks transgress the Laws of the Buddha, stir up the common people, store wealth and weapons, and spread rumors; under the guise of religion, they are nothing more than self-serving agitators.
~ Eiji Yoshikawa
Sinfully acquired wealth may remain for ten years; in the eleventh year it disappears with even the original stock.
~ Chanakya
My religion? Well, my dear, I am a Millionaire. That is my religion.
~ George Bernard Shaw
A pretty good test of a man's religion is how it affects his pocketbook.
~ Francis James Grimke
When Religion and Royalty are swept away, the people will attack the great, and after the great, they will fall upon the rich.
~ Honore de Balzac
Wherever riches have increased, the essence of religion has decreased in the same proportion.
~ John Wesley
Writing for a penny a word is ridiculous. If a man wanted to make a million dollars, the best way would be to start his own religion.
~ L. Ron Hubbard
I'd like to start a religion. That's where the money is.
~ George Orwell
If you want to make a little money, write a book. If you want to make a lot of money, create a religion.
~ L. Ron Hubbard
It is rare to see a rich man religious; for religion preaches restraint, and riches prompt to unlicensed freedom.
~ Owen Feltham
Evangelical Christians are not sincere. It is all about making money.
~ Frank Schaeffer
Greed has replaced religion as the national religion, and with greed comes envy.
~ Wesley Pruden
The Christian church has set up a religion of pomp and revenue in pretended imitation of a person (Jesus) who lived a life of poverty.
~ Thomas Paine
Banks are the temples of America. This is a holy war. Our economy is our religion.
~ Giannina Braschi
Tobacco is the opiate of the gentleman, the religion of the rich.
~ Guillermo Cabrera Infante
Money has no religion except itself.
~ Louis de Bernieres
I may grow rich by an art I am compelled to follow; I may recover health by medicines I am compelled to take against my own judgment; but I cannot be saved by a worship I disbelieve and abhor.
~ Thomas Jefferson
Religion brought forth riches, and the daughter devoured the mother.
~ Francis Bacon