Money

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Seven Social Sins

Wealth without work

Pleasure without conscience

Science without humanity

Knowledge without character

Politics without principle

Commerce without morality

Worship without sacrifice.”

― Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948)

penger sannhet stum

Når pengene snakker, er sannheten stum.

-Russisk ordtak

world need greed

“The world has enough for everyone's need, but not enough for everyone's greed.”​

― Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948)

money happiness misery

“While money can't buy happiness, it certainly lets you choose your own form of misery.”

― Groucho Marx (1890-1977)

money happy

"Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants."

— Benjamin Franklin​ (1706-1790)​

money peace mind relationships meaning

"Money cannot buy peace of mind. It cannot heal ruptured relationships, or build meaning into a life that has none."

—Richard M. DeVos

being rich

“We are not rich by what we possess but by what we can do without.”

― Immanuel Kant (1724-1804)

rich poor man money

“A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money”

― W.C. Fields​ (1880-1946)

money essence real politics contention

“money has no essence. It's not "really" anything; therefore, its nature has always been and presumably always will be a matter of political conten­tion.”

― David Graeber

worth doing money

“What’s worth doing is worth doing for money.”

–Gordon Gekko

bank umbrella

"A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain".

—Robert Frost

american value money

"As one digs deeper into the national character of the americans, one sees that they have sought the value of everything in this world only in the answer to this single question: how much money will it bring in?"

— Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-1859)

wealth rich cruelty dissipation compassion

"The possession of great wealth is a school of pride, cruelty, self-admiration and dissipation."

"The lack of sensivity among rich people is not as cruel as their compassion."

― Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778)

value money world overestimated

"The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated."

– H.L. Mencken (1880-1956)

adam smith - society flourishing happy poor miserable

"No society can be flourishing and happy of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable"

—Adam Smith (1723-1790)