Top 100 Money Evil Quotes
#1. And given how much of the evil and ugliness of the present world can be traced to money, can you imagine what the world will be like when money has been transformed?
Charles Eisenstein
#2. Surely there never was so evil a thing as money, which maketh cities into ruinous heaps, and banisheth men from their houses, and turneth their thoughts from good unto evil.
Sophocles
#3. Think I'm gettin' sick, I'm feelin' illegal/ And not having money is the root of all evil
Lil' Wayne
#4. If blood can produce money through rituals or the so-called human sacrifice, then it is the basis on which we live, so it is very essential to save and protect it from the fiendish eyes of blood sucking predators.
Michael Bassey Johnson
#5. They say money is the rude of all evil, however I know poor people that can quite fit the bill.
Anthony Liccione
#6. To cure us of our immoderate love of gain, we should seriously consider how many goods there are that money will not purchase, and these the best; and how many evils there are that money will not remedy, and these the worst.
Charles Caleb Colton
#7. Money is not the root of all kinds of evil. The love of money is. It's also the root of a lot of bad art.
Michael Gungor
#8. Anybody tells you that money is the root of all evil doesn't have any.
Ben Affleck
#9. I just wanted to create things that I could be proud of. Money was just an evil byproduct to pay the bills at the end of the year.
Richard Branson
#11. How can money be the root of all evil when shopping is the cure for all sadness?
Elizabeth Taylor
#13. Money is not the root of all evil ... ignorance is the root of all evil. People do cruel and foolish things for money because they feel oppressed by a sense of lack. If people knew their power to generate wealth, they would never fight or hurt each other over money.
Alan Cohen
#14. You can make money without doing evil.
Sergey Brin
#15. This dilettante notion that the global economy is evil because big corporate leaders make too much money ... they do make too much money, but the only way we've figured out how to generate wealth in this world is through the market economy.
Joe Klein
#16. 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
#17. It is important to remember that good overcomes evil
Sunday Adelaja
#18. And knowing money is a root of evil, in Christian charity, he'd take away whatever things may hinder your salvation.
Moliere
#19. For example, one dad would say, "The love of money is the root of all evil." The other said, "The lack of money is the root of all evil.
Robert T. Kiyosaki
#20. Food is not evil, but gluttony is. Childbearing is not evil, but fornication is. Money is not evil, but avarice is. Glory is not evil, but vainglory is. Indeed, there is no evil in existing things, but only in their misuse.
Maximus The Confessor
#22. Money isn't the root of all evil; the love of money isn't the root of all evil; the NEED for money is the root of all evil.
Dorothy Koomson
#23. The love of money, not money, is root of all evil.
Dave Ramsey
#24. For wicked people to do evil requires money, and good people superstition. Combining these elements and we get organized religion, but to achieve the worst of all evil conflate politics to the compound and the tragedies are endless.
Sean S. Kamali
#25. They'll fry you, bleach you, change you! Crack you, flake you away until you're nothing but a husband, a working man, the one with the money who pays so they can come sit in there devouring their evil chocalates! Do you think you could control them?
Ray Bradbury
#26. But people who long to be rich fall into temptation and are trapped by many foolish desires and schemes that plunge them into ruin and destruction. For love of money is the root of all of evil and some having pursued its power, fall from faith and end in sorrow.
Saint Timothy
#27. It would cause nothing but madness, Thomas thought. Men would fight for it, lie for it, cheat for it, betray for it and die for it. The Church would make money from it. It would cause nothing but evil, he thought, for it stirred horror from men's hearts,
Bernard Cornwell
#28. Money was evil, beauty vain, and both were transitory. Ambition was pride, desire for gain was avarice, desire of the flesh was lust, desire for honor, even for knowledge and beauty, was vainglory. Insofar as these diverted man from seeking the life of the spirit, they were sinful.
Barbara W. Tuchman
#29. These are roots of all evil, hatred and greed, for money, for the construction and for the sale of weapons. This should make us all think, who is behind it all?
Pope Francis
#30. Weakness actually is a provocative to evil. You don't beat evil with weakness. You don't beat evil with concessions. You don't beat radical Islam by giving them more territory, giving them more money. You beat evil by strength.
Bobby Jindal
#31. Money is nothing more than a tool. It can be a force for good, a force for evil, or simply idle.
Jim Stovall
#32. Because parents have power over children. They feel they have to do what their parents say. But the love of money is the root of all evil. And this is a sweet child. And to see him turn like this, this isn't him. This is not him.
Michael Jackson
#33. The source and root of all monetary evil [is] the government monopoly on the issue and control of money. - Friedrich Hayek
George Gilder
#34. Money is the source of the greatest vice, and that nation which is most rich, is most wicked.
Fanny Burney
#35. Money and good pussy's a fatal attraction for men.
Ja Rule
#36. The key to evil? Freedom. The key to freedom? Money. For you, my darlings, freedom to do what you like to do makes you. Not that that stops you doing what you like, since you like doing what you like more than you like liking what you do ...
Glen Duncan
#37. And they say [money's] the root of all evil. Well, Protestants say that. Catholics know better.
Hilary Mantel
#38. Zoroastrianism is about the opposition of good and evil. For the triumph of good, we have to make a choice. We can enlist on the side of good by prospering, making money and using our wealth to help others.
Rohinton Mistry
#39. A cure for War? Furiously spending the same daily amount of money toward making friends. Being an indispensable source of food, shelter, peace, and cultural support dedicatedly spending 9 billion dollars a month on helping people would be a formidable enemy of evil.
Vanna Bonta
#41. There are still people in Japan who think money is something evil.
Shuji Nakamura
#42. There is no evil that does not promise inducements. Avarice promises money; luxury, a varied assortment of pleasures; ambition, a purple robe and applause. Vices tempt you by the rewards they offer.
Seneca The Younger
#43. Money made me evil, court cases got me stressed Niggaz aimin at my head but I still wear my vest.
Tupac Shakur
#44. The love of money is the root of all evil, therefore selfishness must be the seed.
M.D. Birmingham
#45. Borrowers are nearly always ill-spenders, and it is with lent money that all evil is mainly done and all unjust war protracted.
John Ruskin
#46. The three principal samskaras have to do with sex, money and power. In all those countless incarnations that one goes through in the religious practice, the avoidance is tremendous. We brand those things as evil.
Frederick Lenz
#47. Pop is an easy way for evil business people to make a lot of money. But I find myself humming a Christina Aguilera song every once in a while.
Brandon Boyd
#48. What I don't like about the music industry is everything. It's very Satanic, people are evil, they talk about money, they talk about things that don't really matter, and they brainwash everybody.
Hopsin
#49. Money, in itself, is evil. And therefore he who gives money gives evil.
Leo Tolstoy
#50. The Bible does not say money is the root of all evil; it says the love of money is the root of all kinds of evil. A poor man who, in his heart, worships the idea of being rich is more vulnerable to its evils than a rich man who has a heart to use it all for the Lord.
Criss Jami
#51. In the final analysis, each of us is responsible for what we are. We cannot blame it on our mothers, who, thanks to Freud, have replaced money as the root of all evil.
Helen Lawrenson
#52. Door money. It's a distraction. It impedes judgment. It blurs focus. Chasing the almighty dollar can become the root of all evil, the bane of one's existence.
Carlos Wallace
#53. Just as it is the love of money that is the root of all evil, it is the belief in shamefulness that is the root of all misery.
Stephen Fry
#54. I knew witches and wizards were allergic to money because the presence of cash is like a rival evil.
William Kamkwamba
#55. [If] we wish to diminish the love of money which, we are told, is the root of all evil, the first step must be the creation of a system in which everyone has enough and no one has too much.
Bertrand Russell
#56. I believe it to my soul that you're the devil in nylon hose, for the harder I worker the faster my money goes.
Big Joe Turner
#57. Money is a living power that dies without its root. Money will not serve the mind that cannot match it. Is this the reason why you call it evil?
Ayn Rand
#58. Can the mere convenience that makes money such a useful device continue indefinitely to outweigh the horrendous and growing burden of evil that it imposes on the human race and ultimately brings its dependents to ruin?
Hugh Nibley
#60. Money, like any other force such as electricity, is amoral and can be used for either good or evil.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#61. Money is the fruit of evil, as often as the root of it.
Henry Fielding
#62. The Y Chromosome, organized religion and money are the roots of all evil.
William Hageman
#63. The lack of money is the root of all evil, Mr. Meadows.
Ilona Andrews
#64. They do say money is the root of all evil."
I thought that was supposed to be the love of money."
There's neat for you. 'Tis them without it that loves it best.
Jamie O'Neill
#65. Having lost its value, money may no longer be the root of all evil; credit having taken its place.
Dalton Camp
#66. The fundamental evil of the world arose from the fact that the good Lord has not created money enough.
Heinrich Heine
#67. Money is the root of all evil, and yet it is such a useful root that we cannot get on without it any more than we can without potatoes.
Louisa May Alcott
#68. Money doesn't mind if we say it's evil, it goes from strength to strength. It's a fiction, an addiction, and a tacit conspiracy.
Martin Amis
#69. Listen - of course money changes everything, but so does sunlight, and so does food: These are powerful but neutral energy sources, neither inherently good nor evil but shaped only by the way we use them.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#70. The extravagant expenditure of public money is an evil not to be measured by the value of that money to the people who are taxed for it.
Chester A. Arthur
#71. This planet was a marketplace where evil tugged murderously at its chains. Its spies were everywhere. At windy corners where young girls with knowing children's faces were selling flowers and matches, on the operating tables at the hospitals, in the slums, at railway stations, under viaducts.
Paul Leppin
#72. If money help a man to do good to others, it is of some value; but if not, it is simply a mass of evil, and the sooner it is got rid of, the better.
Swami Vivekananda
#73. It has been said that the love of money is the root of all evil. The want of money is so quite as truly.
Samuel Butler
#74. You can bet the rent money that whatever politicians do will end up harming consumers ... Economic ignorance is to politicians what idle hands are to the devil. Both provide the workshop for the creation of evil.
Walter E. Williams
#75. Money confers the power to command the labor of others. Love of money is love of power. And love of power is the root of evil.
Edward Abbey
#76. Or did you say it's the love of money that's the root of all evil? To love a thing is to know and love its nature. To love money is to know and love the fact that money is the creation of the best power within you, and your passkey to trade your effort for the effort of the best among men.
Ayn Rand
#77. Since capitalism is a system based of the love of money,
doesn't that make it the root of all evil?
Alan VanMeter
#78. Though money is a fine servant, as a god, it does seem to develop all the evil qualities of the slave seated between the cherubim.
J. E. Buckrose
#79. Many people would say that money is the root of all evil, which is not entirely true. The root of all evil is ignorance, and the economic state of our society is a result of ignorance.
Joseph P. Kauffman
#80. Beauvoir knew that the root of all evil wasn't money. No, what created and drove evil was fear. Fear of not having enough money, enough food, enough land, enough power, enough security, enough love. Fear of not getting what you want, or losing what you have.
Louise Penny
#81. It's no good to give money to anybody
who thinks money as the root of all evil.
Toba Beta
#82. During many a single week, I daresay, more money is spent in New York upon useless and evil things than would suffice to run the kingdom of Denmark for a year.
H.L. Mencken
#83. Money Is The Root Of All Evil I Thought ... But When Im Broke Is Usually When I Have The Evilest Thoughts
Fabolous
#84. Anyone who loves money loves a good thing,but anyone who is in love with money is an evil man.
Crystal Wolf
#85. The Bible doesn't say that money is the root of all evil; it says that love of money is.
William Deresiewicz
#86. Some men aren't looking for anything logical, like money. They can't be bought, bullied, reasoned, or negotiated with. Some men just want to watch the world burn.
Michael Caine
#87. I have always stuck to my guns about what I want from the work and what interests me. I've never been seduced down the evil path. The path of taking the money.
Joel Edgerton
#88. Money was merely the means to an end. The true root of all evil was selfishness.
Nina Mason
#89. The root and source of all monetary evil is the government's monopoly on money.
Friedrich A. Hayek
#90. Money is power, freedom, a cushion, the root of all evil, the sum of blessings.
Carl Sandburg
#91. Celebrity is no different from any other energy. It's a force for good or evil. It's no different from money. It's power.
Jerry Seinfeld
#92. We have always believed that it's possible to make money without being evil.
Larry Page
#93. If your motives aren't clean, money itself becomes evil. But When we don't have money enough evil, the world tells us we're losers. So what determines our place in society is not how much kindness is in our hearts but how much evil is in our wallet.
Todd McFarlane
#94. The pastor looks at the money. It is money coming from the wife of a sodomite. It is money coming from a woman. It is the deep-lying root of evil. But it is a lot of money.
Jessie Burton
#95. Money should never be separated from values. Detached from values it may indeed be the root of all evil. Linked effectively to social purpose it can be the root of opportunity.
Rosabeth Moss Kanter
#96. Google has the informal corporate motto of "don't be evil", but they make money when anything happens online, even the bad stuff.' In
Jon Ronson
#97. You will find that you cannot do without politicians. They are a necessary evil in this day and time. You may not like getting money from one source and spending it for another. But the thing for the school people to do is that if the politicians are going to steal, make them steal for the schools.
Huey Long
#98. Money alone cannot build character or transform evil into good. It cries for full partnership with leaders of character and good will who value good tools in the creation and enlargement of life for Man.
Sebastian Spering Kresge
#99. There's an old adage that says that money is the root of all evil. Bullshit. Lack of money is the root of all evil.
Gene Simmons
#100. Money the root of all evil, unless used for good purpose
Henry Ford
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