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