Money Quotes

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

13074 quotes

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"The more you own, the more it owns you."
Russell, Bertrand
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"The market absorbs all resistance and turns it into merchandise."
Marcuse, Herbert
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"Money is crystallized power."
Marcuse, Herbert
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"Money is the modern form of sacrifice—we bleed wealth to feel alive."
Bataille, Georges
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"The market does not reward virtue but rather the ability to deceive."
Horkheimer, Max
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"The commodity form penetrates even into the realm of desire."
Horkheimer, Max
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"Money is the medium through which all values become commensurable."
Horkheimer, Max
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"Advertising creates artificial needs that bind us to the status quo"
Marcuse, Herbert
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"Money transforms everything it touches into exchange value."
Horkheimer, Max
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"Money represents the complete abstraction and domination of life."
Horkheimer, Max
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"Money reduces all values to commensurable quantities, destroying qualitative difference."
Adorno, Theodor
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"Money makes even the impossible seem natural and inevitable."
Adorno, Theodor
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"Money mediates all relationships in advanced industrial society"
Marcuse, Herbert
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"Exchange value has colonized even the territory of meaning and beauty."
Horkheimer, Max
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"Money is congealed human labor, dead and alienated from its creators."
Lukács, György
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"The exchange of money transforms all qualitative differences into quantitative equivalence."
Adorno, Theodor
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"Money is congealed labor and congealed domination."
Marcuse, Herbert
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"Money is desire crystallized into currency."
Deleuze, Gilles
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"Money is frozen desire."
Deleuze, Gilles
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"The commodity form penetrates even into the deepest recesses of subjective experience."
Adorno, Theodor
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"Money is a strange attractor that organizes all other flows."
Deleuze, Gilles
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"The more we possess, the more we fear to lose"
Sartre, Jean-Paul
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"The more one possesses, the more one is possessed."
Sartre, Jean-Paul
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"The more one possesses, the more one is possessed by one's possessions."
Foucault, Michel
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"Money is crystallized social relations and historical struggles."
Foucault, Michel
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"Capital flows through structures of meaning we cannot escape."
Derrida, Jacques
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"Money represents the materialization of human freedom in a capitalist system."
Sartre, Jean-Paul
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"Poverty is not simply lack of money; it is the absence of meaningful freedom and choice."
Sartre, Jean-Paul
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"Money is a means, not an end."
Popper, Karl
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"Money is neither good nor evil; it is a tool of human exchange."
Ayer, Alfred Jules