Money Quote by James Buchan

“This conglomeration of decayed antiquity, collected with the disease of greed, surely invites our charity. It would be better to forget these trumpery ideas,…

— Austin Osman Spare

“Over the course of human history, many items have briefly flourished as means of exchange, only to be demonetarized. Now, we have demonetarized money.”

— Markham Shaw Pyle

Money, when considered as the fruit of many years' industry, as the reward of labor, sweat and toil, as the widow's dowry and children's…

— Thomas Paine

“History has shown that money is a salve unto itself for any malady of the troubled mind.”

— James Daniel Ross

It is long ere we discover how rich we are. Our history, we are sure, is quite tame: we have nothing to write, nothing…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Money has an even darker side. For although money builds universal trust between strangers, this trust is invested not in humans, communities or sacred…

— Yuval Noah Harari

There can be few fields of human endeavor in which history counts for so little as in the world of finance.Past experience, to the…

— John Kenneth Galbraith

“As soon as we freed ourselves from the mirage of hurrying time—which was nothing more than the projection of our own impatience—we were alive…

— Alan Wilson Watts

“Money, like most other inventions, had happened to mankind, and men had still to develop  to-day they have still to perfect the science and…

— H.G. Wells

“Money is subject to the result of scientific circumstantial evidences (vyavasthit). Then, regardless of whether one practices morality or immorality, money will still keep…

— Dada Bhagwan

“Whereas we, the dead, are the true inheritors of the Modern. The live lot assemble time into lazy decadences--ten-year periods of conspicuous attitudinising, which…

— Will Self

“For thousands of years, philosophers, thinkers and prophets have besmirched money and called it the root of all evil. Be that as it may,…

— Yuval Noah Harari