Capitalism is using its money; we socialists throw it away.

Capitalism is using its money; we socialists throw it away.

How beauteous are rouleaus! how charming chests
Containing ingots, bags of dollars, coins
(Not of old victors, read more

How beauteous are rouleaus! how charming chests
Containing ingots, bags of dollars, coins
(Not of old victors, all whose heads and crests
Weigh not the thin ore where their visage shines,
But) of find unclipt gold, where dully rests
Some likeness, which the glittering cirque confines,
Of modern, reigning, sterling, stupid stamp;--
Yes! ready money is Aladdin's lamp.

It's not so much the amount of tax we pay - it's the sense that our pocket's being picked without read more

It's not so much the amount of tax we pay - it's the sense that our pocket's being picked without our knowing what's going on.

Money is your means of survival. The verdict you pronounce upon the source of your livelihood is the verdict you read more

Money is your means of survival. The verdict you pronounce upon the source of your livelihood is the verdict you pronounce upon your life. If the source is corrupt, you have damned your own existence. Did you get your money by fraud? By pandering to men's vices or men's stupidity? By catering to fools, in the hope of getting more than your ability deserves? By lowering your standards? By doing work you despise for purchasers your scorn? If so, then your money will not give you a moment's or a penny's worth of joy. Then all the things you buy will become, not a tribute to you, but a reproach; not an achievement, but a reminder of shame. Then you'll scream that money is evil. Evil, because it would not pinch-hit for your self-respect? Evil, because it would not let you enjoy your depravity? Is this the root of your hatred of money?

Money is something you got to make in case you don't die.

Money is something you got to make in case you don't die.

Money is a new form of slavery, and distinguishable from the old simply by the fact that it is impersonal—that read more

Money is a new form of slavery, and distinguishable from the old simply by the fact that it is impersonal—that there is no human relationship between master and slave.

The way to resumption is to resume.

The way to resumption is to resume.

When it's a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.

When it's a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.

You reach a point where you don't work for money.

You reach a point where you don't work for money.