Money
Quotes - There are three faithful friends
“Money
can't buy happiness, but it certainly is a stress reliever.”
―
Besa Kosova
“Its
easier to feel a little more spiritual with a couple of bucks in your pocket.”
―
Craig Ferguson
“Yes
the truth is that men's ambition and their desire to make money are among the
most frequent causes of deliberate acts of injustice.”
―
Aristotle, Politics
“Poverty
frees them from ordinary standards of behaviour, just as money frees people
from work.”
―
George Orwell, Down and Out in Paris and London
“What
I didn’t say was: I know you too well. You live your life idealistically. You
think it’s possible to opt out of the system. No regular income, no health
insurance. You quit jobs on a dime. You think this is freedom but I still see
the bare, painstakingly cheap way you live, the scrimping and saving, and that
is not freedom either. You move in circumscribed circles. You move
peripherally, on the margins of everything, pirating movies and eating dollar
slices. I used to admire this about you, how fervently you clung to your
beliefs—I called it integrity—but five years of watching you live this way has
changed me. In this world, money is freedom. Opting out is not a real choice.”
―
Ling Ma, Severance
“A
primary purpose of the police is to enforce the delusions of those with lots of
green paper.”
―
Derrick Jensen, Endgame, Vol. 1: The Problem of Civilization
“I
wonder if there isn't a catch about having plenty of money? Does it eventually
take the pleasure out of things?”
―
Dodie Smith, I Capture the Castle
“In
fact this is precisely the logic on which the Bank of England—the first
successful modern central bank—was originally founded. In 1694, a consortium of
English bankers made a loan of £1,200,000 to the king. In return they received
a royal monopoly on the issuance of banknotes. What this meant in practice was
they had the right to advance IOUs for a portion of the money the king now owed
them to any inhabitant of the kingdom willing to borrow from them, or willing
to deposit their own money in the bank—in effect, to circulate or
"monetize" the newly created royal debt. This was a great deal for
the bankers (they got to charge the king 8 percent annual interest for the
original loan and simultaneously charge interest on the same money to the
clients who borrowed it), but it only worked as long as the original loan
remained outstanding. To this day, this loan has never been paid back. It
cannot be. If it ever were, the entire monetary system of Great Britain would
cease to exist.”
―
David Graeber, Debt: The First 5,000 Years
“Getting
money is not all a man's business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of
the business of life.”
―
Samuel Johnson, The Life of Samuel Johnson LL.D. Vol 3
“If
the financial system has a defect, it is that it reflects and magnifies what we
human beings are like. Money amplifies our tendency to overreact, to swing from
exuberance when things are going well to deep depression when they go wrong.
Booms and busts are products, at root, of our emotional volatility.”
―
Niall Ferguson
“The
Yen Buddhists are the richest religious sect in the universe. They hold that
the accumulation of money is a great evil and a burden to the soul. They
therefore, regardless of personal hazard, see it as their unpleasant duty to
acquire as much as possible in order to reduce the risk to innocent people.”
―
Terry Pratchett, Witches Abroad
“There
are three faithful friends, an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.”
―
Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanack
“Every
time you borrow money, you're robbing your future self.”
―
Nathan W. Morris
“money’s
just an idea, it has power. Only it’s not real power. Just the promise of
power. But that promise is enough so long as everyone keeps pretending it’s
real. Stop pretending and it all falls apart.”
―
Steven Erikson, Midnight Tides
“Economic
power is exercised by means of a positive, by offering men a reward, an
incentive, a payment, a value; political power is exercised by means of a
negative, by the threat of punishment, injury, imprisonment, destruction. The
businessman's tool is values; the bureaucrat's tool is fear.”
―
Ayn Rand
“My
mum and dad had worked incredibly hard to afford me an education.”
―
Benedict Cumberbatch
“Fidelity
purchased with money, money can destroy.”
―
Seneca, The Conquest of Happiness
“NAUGHTY
AND NICE? said Death. BUT IT'S EASY TO BE NICE IF YOU'RE RICH. IS THIS FAIR?
Albert
wanted to argue. He wanted to say, Really? In that case, how come so many of
the rich buggers is bastards? And being poor don't mean being naughty,
neither.”
―
Terry Pratchett, Hogfather
“When
you optimize your talents very well, you can pick money from people's pockets
and nobody will ever get the guts to call you a thief.”
―
Israelmore Ayivor
“You
don't necessarily need atomic bombs to destroy a nation. Politicians who value
their pockets than the life of citizens always do that every day.”
―
Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Ladder
“Whenever
a state or an individual cited 'insufficient funds' as an excuse for neglecting
this important thing or that, it was indicative of the extent to which reality
had been distorted by the abstract lens of wealth. During periods of so-called
economic depression, for example, societies suffered for want of all manner of
essential goods, yet investigation almost invariably disclosed that there were
plenty of goods available. Plenty of coal in the ground, corn in the fields,
wool on the sheep. What was missing was not materials but an abstract unit of
measurement called 'money.' It was akin to a starving woman with a sweet tooth
lamenting that she couldn't bake a cake because she didn't have any ounces. She
had butter, flour, eggs, milk, and sugar, she just didn't have any ounces, any
pinches, any pints. The loony legacy of money was that the arithmetic by which
things were measured had become more valuable than the things themselves.”
―
Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All
“You
piss me off you Salmon... You're too expensive in restaurants.”
―
Eddie Izzard
