Money Quotes

Wealth, poverty, and everything the ledger can and can't measure.

13074 quotes

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"Money measures what has no intrinsic value."
Philip Rieff
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"Money is merely a measure of value."
David Riesman
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"Money's value is entirely dependent on what we make it mean."
Maurice Natanson
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"Money is a measure of value, not value itself."
Lucien Goldmann
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"Money reflects the power relationships of society."
Lucien Goldmann
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"The consumption of goods has become a form of identity construction."
David Riesman
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"The culture of consumption masks deeper questions about meaning and purpose."
David Riesman
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"Status anxiety drives much of consumer culture."
David Riesman
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"The consumer society rewards those who consume themselves."
David Riesman
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"Money is a tool, not a measure of worth."
Siegfried Kracauer
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"Money is frozen desire."
Ernst Bloch
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"Money cannot buy happiness, but it can remove unhappiness."
Ernst Bloch
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"Money is solidified time; spend it as you would spend your life."
Ernst Bloch
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"Money is a means, never an end; confuse them and you lose both."
Ernst Bloch
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"Money is frozen history—it represents and perpetuates past acts of violence and appropriation."
Herbert Marcuse
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"Money is frozen time, but time itself cannot be frozen."
Ernst Bloch
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"Money is a means to freedom, not an end in itself."
Ernst Bloch
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"Money represents congealed human labor and shapes all our social relationships."
Lucien Goldmann
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"Money is a store of human labor that can either liberate or enslave."
Lucien Goldmann
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"Money becomes the universal measure of value and worth."
Herbert Marcuse
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"Money is a mode of revealing the value we collectively assign to things."
Martin Heidegger
"Money has value only because consciousness collectively agrees to that value."
Edmund Husserl
"Money is a mediation that can obscure direct relationship."
Maurice Merleau-Ponty
"All capitalism is the belief that making money is holy, and that more is better."
Walter Benjamin
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"Money is a means, not an end."
Paul Feyerabend
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"Inflationism is not an economic policy that can be followed in the long run."
Ludwig von Mises
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"Money is the most important tool of freedom ever invented."
Ludwig von Mises
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"Saving is the only way to become rich and free."
Ludwig von Mises
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"The best way to destroy the capitalist system is to debauch the currency."
Ludwig von Mises
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"They think that money is the root of all evil, but love of money is the root of all good."
Ludwig von Mises