Money Quotes

"Money is the most abstract form of power"

"Money is the ultimate fantasy object that structures all other desires."

"Money is just crystallized ideology made visible."

"Money is the most abstract form of sovereign power."

"Quality becomes merchandise once it enters into the exchange process."

"In the exchange society, everything including critique has become a commodity."

"Money is congealed violence; to handle it is to handle weapons."

"Money is solidified relationships."

"The exchange principle reduces all qualitative differences to quantitative equivalences."

"What appears as the free market is the perfection of coercive organization."

"Money is a tool, not an end in itself."

"The culture industry manufactures not just goods but also the very desires that drive consumption."

"Exchange value has infected even use value; nothing escapes the logic of commodification."

"Money is not merely economic; it is the logic by which meaning itself is measured."

"Money speaks the language of equivalence; life does not."

"Money is the measure of all things in civil society."

"The commodity form extends into the deepest regions of human experience and desire."

"The culture industry manufactures needs that it then satisfies at a profit."

"Money is the only language that capitalism understands."

"Money is a tool, and like all tools, its value depends on who wields it."

"Money buys many things, but not the things that matter most."

"The more you have, the more you are occupied in keeping and protecting your possessions. The less you have, the less you have to fear will be taken from you."

"Money is congealed labor and represents human value"

"Money is not wealth; it is only a sign of wealth."

"Our incomes are like our shoes; if too small they gall and pinch us; but if too large they cause us to stumble and to trip."

"Money is not real. It is an agreement within a community to exchange"

"It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest."

"Nothing is more useful than water: but it will purchase scarce anything; scarce anything can be had in exchange for it."

"The laborer's wages cannot go below what is needed to support him."

"It is not the money price of commodities that is altered in the present case; it is the real price."