Money Quotes

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

13074 quotes

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