Mammon Quotes
30 quotes by 28 authors
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Renunciation means that none can serve both God and Mammon.
— Swami Vivekananda
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The way to God is the opposite to that of the world. And to few, very few, are given to have God and mammon at…
— Swami Vivekananda
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Near eighty years ago we began by declaring that all men are created equal; but now from that beginning we have run down to the…
— Abraham Lincoln
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Alfred Nobel - pitiable half-creature, should have been stifled by humane doctor when he made his entry yelling into life. Greatest merits: Keeps his nails…
— Alfred Nobel
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Those who set out to serve both God and Mammon soon discover that there isn't a God.
— Logan Pearsall Smith
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MAMMON, n. The god of the world's leading religion. The chief temple is in the holy city of New York.
— Ambrose Bierce
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Scholars have endlessly written about antebellum Protestant thinking about slavery. Now, finally, Friends of the Unrighteous Mammon turns a spotlight on a new, crucial question:…
— Lauren F. Winner
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Moloch merely shovels babies into the fire of productive capitalism. Mammon hooks them on the dead heroin of envy.
— Hakim Bey
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The age is dull and mean. Men creep, Not walk; with blood too pale and tame To pay the debt they owe to shame; Buy…
— John Greenleaf Whittier
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We have among us a class of mammon worshippers, whose one test of conservatism or radicalism is the attitude one takes with respect to accumulated…
— Richard T. Ely
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You cannot serve god and mammon. You have to make a choice.
— Billy Graham
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Mammon, the least erected spirit that fell >From heaven; for ev'n in heaven his looks and thoughts Were always downward bent, admiring more The riches…
— John Milton
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Avoid duplicity, that is, do not let your heart be divided between attachment to God and attachment to earthly things, 'You cannot serve God and…
— John of Kronstadt
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...it is presumptuous ridicule of God if someone thinks that only the person who desires great wealth chooses mammon. Alas, the person who insists on…
— Soren Kierkegaard
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Every child was taught from his cradle that money was Mammon, the chief agent of the flesh and the devil.
— Rebecca Harding Davis
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...existence has become an unreasoning, wild dance around the golden calf, a mad worship of God Mammon. In that dance and in that worship man…
— Alexander Berkman
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There are hardly half a dozen writers in England today who have not sold out to the enemy. Even when their good work has been…
— Aleister Crowley
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Catholics are necessarily at war with this age. That we are not more conscious of the fact, that we so often endeavor to make an…
— Eric Gill
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Mammon is the largest slave-holder in the world.
— Arthur Frederick Saunders
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High thinking is inconsistent with a complicated material life based on high speed and imposed on us by mammon worship.
— Mahatma Gandhi
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