Money Quotes
Wealth, poverty, and everything the ledger can and can't measure.
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"Money enables freedom only when not pursued as an end in itself."Ayer, Alfred Jules
"The more you own, the more it owns you."Wittgenstein, Ludwig
"A just distribution of wealth reflects both effort and the underlying fairness of initial opportunities."Rawls, John
"Justice demands that we regulate property and wealth not only for efficiency but to ensure fair opportunities for all."Rawls, John
"The more you own, the more it owns you."Wittgenstein, Ludwig
"Money is a good servant but a bad master."Spencer, Herbert
"Money is a means to human flourishing, not an end in itself; to mistake the two is to impoverish oneself."Dilthey, Wilhelm
"Money represents crystallized human effort; its proper use is the wise distribution of this effort."Dilthey, Wilhelm
"The very idea that the genuine mode of life for man is to acquire, to own, to make money."Peirce, Charles Sanders
"The pursuit of money does not ennoble us."Spencer, Herbert
"Money is merely crystallized energy."Spencer, Herbert
"Money follows those who create value."Spencer, Herbert
"Money is a means to human flourishing, not its end."Dilthey, Wilhelm
"Money is materialized power."Feuerbach, Ludwig
"Money is a tool for social progress, not personal greed."Comte, Auguste
"The pursuit of wealth without purpose is spiritual poverty."Comte, Auguste
"The money-making instinct is a human instinct."James, William
"Money is crystallized human labor."Feuerbach, Ludwig
"Money is the sinew of civilization."Bentham, Jeremy
"Money is a universal commodity."Marx, Karl
"The more of his money man has the less of his soul he will have."Marx, Karl
"The capitalist knows that all commodities, however scurvy they may look or taste, are faith."Marx, Karl
"Accumulate, accumulate! That is Moses and the prophets."Marx, Karl
"Money is a tool for social good or social harm depending on moral guidance."Comte, Auguste
"Money concentrated without moral principle becomes the enemy of society."Comte, Auguste
"Money is a tool, not a measure of human worth."Feuerbach, Ludwig
"Money cannot purchase what truly matters: love, meaning, and peace."Feuerbach, Ludwig
"As we become richer, so shall we become fuller of unsatisfied desires and of new unhappiness."James, William
"The more you own, the more it owns you."Kierkegaard, Søren
"The power of the purse is the power of life itself."Bentham, Jeremy