Money Is Evil Quotes

It has been said that the love of money is the root of all evil. The want of money is so quite as truly.

I think that money is the root of all evil. I've seen it happen.

I refuse to accept the idea that money is evil. People make things evil and negative. Some people love what money can do and therefore would do anything to get it, they love the power, they chase it, while others understand what money can do, therefore they do what's in their hearts, they understand the influence and attract it.

I don't believe money is evil, but it can be terribly corrosive.

So you think that money is the root of all evil? [...] Have you ever asked what is the root of money? Money is a tool of exchange, which can't exist unless there are goods produced and men able to produce them. Money is the material shape of the principle that men who wish to deal with one another must deal by trade and give value for value. Money is not the tool of the moochers, who claim your product by tears, or of the looters, who take it from you by force. Money is made possible only by the men who produce. Is this what you consider evil?

Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil. Capital in some form or other will always be needed.

Anybody tells you that money is the root of all evil doesn't have any.

Never spend your money before you have earned it.

Money is usually attracted, not pursued.

It's the person who would sell his soul for a nickel, who is loudest in proclaiming his hatred of money.... Let me give you a tip on men's characters: the man who damns money has obtained it dishonorably; the man who respects it has earned it. Run for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That sentence is the...bell of an approaching looter.

There are people who have money and people who are rich.

Lack of money is the root of of all evil.

Money is a tool of exchange, which can't exist unless there are goods produced and men able to produce them. Money is the material shape of the principle that men who wish to deal with one another must deal by trade and give value for value.

So you think that money is the root of all evil. Have you ever asked what is the root of all money?

... a bad attitude, that the love of money is the root of all evil and the rich are evil and greedy and all that stuff. It’s basically socialism and communism.

Run for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That sentence is the leper's bell of an approaching looter.

Greed, for lack of a better word, is good.

Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right, greed works.

The lack of money is the root of all evil.

Money is power, freedom, a cushion, the root of all evil, the sum of blessings.

My philosophy has always been, do what you love and the money will follow.

Run for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That sentence is the leper's bell of an approaching looter. So long as men live together on earth and need means to deal with one another--their only substitute, if they abandon money, is the muzzle of a gun.