Money creation | Quotes about the magic of money

"If your wages are only enough for eating and sleeping, that is not work; it used to be called slavery." George Orwell

"We have to grasp, as Marx and Adam Smith did, that corporations are not concerned with the common good. They exploit, pollute, impoverish, repress, kill, and lie to make money. They throw poor people out of homes, let the uninsured die, wage useless wars for profit, poison and pollute the ecosystem, slash social assistance programs, gut public education, trash the global economy, plunder the U.S. Treasury and crush all popular movements that seek justice for working men and women. They worship money and power." Chris Hedges

"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." Ayn Rand

"Class is material consumed." John Trudell

"Communism is a society where each one works according to his abilities and gets according to his needs." Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

"Producer and consumer are always one and the same person, merely considered from two different viewpoints." Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

"Modern economics is a set of formal models and equations purporting to fully determine human behaviour, at least in the economic realm. And there is no way that uncertainty can be compressed into determinate mathematical models." Murray Rothbard

"One seventh of your life is spent on Monday." Aldous Huxley

"Conservatives say the government can't end poverty by force, but they believe it can use force to make people moral. Liberals say government can't make people be moral, but they believe it can end poverty. Neither group attempts to explain why government is so clumsy and destructive in one area but a paragon of efficiency and benevolence in the other." Harry Browne

"Money is the general medium of exchange. It is the thing for which all other goods are traded, the means of final payment for such goods on the market." Murray Rothbard

"When one has not had a good father, one must create one." Friedrich Nietzsche