I’m not interested in money. I just want to be wonderful. Marilyn Monroe
Money doesn’t mind if we say it’s evil; it goes from strength to strength. It’s a fiction, an addiction and a tacit conspiracy. Martin Amis, Money
Perhaps there are other bits of my life that would take on content, take on shadow, if only I read more and thought less about money. ibid.
For a long time I felt that FDR had developed many thoughts and ideas that were his own to benefit this country, the United States. But, he didn’t. Most of his thoughts, his political ammunition, as it were, were carefully manufactured for him in advance by the Council on Foreign Relations – One World Money group. Brilliantly, with great gusto, like a fine piece of artillery, he exploded that prepared ‘ammunition’ in the middle of an unsuspecting target, the American people, and thus paid off and returned his internationalist political support.
The UN is but a long-range, international banking apparatus clearly set up for financial and economic profit by a small group of powerful One-World revolutionaries, hungry for profit and power.
The depression was the calculated ‘shearing’ of the public by the World Money powers, triggered by the planned sudden shortage of supply of call money in the New York money market ... The One World Government leaders and their ever close bankers have now acquired full control of the money and credit machinery of the US via the creation of the privately owned Federal Reserve Bank. Curtis Dall, My Exploited Father-in-Law
The government should create, issue and circulate all the currency and credit needed to satisfy the spending power of the government and the buying power of consumers.
The privilege of creating and issuing money is not only the supreme prerogative of government, but it is the government’s greatest creative opportunity.
By the adoption of these principles, the long-felt want for a uniform medium will be satisfied. The taxpayers will be saved immense sums of interest, discounts and exchanges.
The financing of all public enterprises, the maintenance of stable government and ordered progress, and the conduct of the Treasury will become matter of practical administrators.
The people can and will be furnished with a currency as safe as their own government. Money will cease to be the master and become the servant of humanity.
Democracy will rise, superior to the money power. Abraham Lincoln
I spent a lot of money on booze, birds and fast cars. The rest I just squandered. George Best, variations & attributions
I’m crazy about money. Salvador Dali
Liking money like I like it, is nothing less than mysticism. Money is a glory. Salvador Dali
A fool and his money are soon parted. Late 16th century proverb
Penny wise and pound foolish. Early 17th century proverb
You pays your money and takes your choice. Mid-19th century proverb
Capitalism is using its money; we socialists throw it away. Fidel Castro
Pieces of eight, pieces of eight, pieces of eight! Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island
Up and down the City Road
In and out the Eagle,
That’s the way the money goes –
Pop goes the weasel! W R Mandale, song 1853
Money is the measure by which goods as value, the value by which goods are exchanged, and in which contracts are made payable.
Every thing receives a value from its use, and the value is raised according to the quality, quantity and demand.
Money is not the value for which goods are exchanged, but the value by which they are exchanged. John Law, political economist, 1705
We will focus their attention toward money and material goods so they may never connect with their inner self. The Secret Covenant, BankIndex online 21 June 2002
Those who have some means think that the most important thing in the world is love. The poor know that it is money. Gerald Brenan
You need no political laws to liberate your power for prosperity and peace; you are the master of your fate by natural law, if you but discover that law. E C Riegel, The New Approach to Freedom, 1949
When the people of the world have a common monetary language, completely freed from every government, it will so facilitate and stabilize exchange that people and prosperity will ensue even without world government. A union of peoples rather than a union of political governments is what the world needs. ibid.
To trade goods and services is a natural right of all people. To issue the money necessary to make these exchanges is also the natural right of all people who are intelligent enough to do so. We need not beg for money. We do not need to be money slaves: we can be money masters. ibid.
The study of money, above all other fields in economics, is one in which complexity is used to disguise or to evade truth, not to reveal it. John Kenneth Galbraith
To pay off the debt was to destroy the money supply. John Kenneth Galbraith
I have argued for a long while that monetarism ... is not an issue between left and right, conservatives and labour and liberal and conservatives, the issue is whether it works or not, and I’ve long argued that it doesn’t work. John Kenneth Galbraith, Parkinson Show
The entire world economy rests on the consumer; if he ever stops spending money he doesn’t have on things he doesn’t need, we’re done for. Bill Bonner
But it is pretty to see what money will do. Samuel Pepys, diary 21st March 1667
Money is like muck, not good except to be spread. Francis Bacon, Essays: ‘Of Seditions and Troubles’, 1625
The rich will strive to establish their dominion and enslave the rest. They always will ... have the same effect here as elsewhere, if we do not by government keep them in the proper spheres. Gouverneur Morris
Money has no smell. Vespasian
Here’s two thousand quid. Take your old lady on holiday. I got loads-a-money. Harry Enfield as Loadsamoney the plasterer, Saturday Night Live
They were careless people, Tom and Daisy – they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, 1925
Her voice is full of money. ibid.
Money … is none of the wheels of trade: it is the oil which renders the motion of the wheels more smooth and easy. David Hume, Essays: Moral and Political, 1741-2
Unfortunately, whenever we get into power with either one of these two parties we find that the one crying need of our people – the redistribution of wealth so that none would be too poor and none would be too rich – is always neglected by the party that is in power. Huey Long
Citizens, citizens, the first thing to acquire is money. Cash before conscience! Horace, Epistles
If possible honestly, if not, somehow, make money. ibid.
Money frees you from doing things you dislike. Since I dislike doing nearly everything, money is handy. Groucho Marx
Goods are an asset; money is a debt. Carroll Quigley, Tragedy & Hope: A History of the World in Our Time
The organizational structure for creating means of payment out of nothing, which we call credit, was not invented by England but was developed by her to become one of her chief weapons in the victory over Napoleon in 1815. ibid.