Quotes About Obsession With Money

#1. All of us desire a better state of society. But society cannot become better before two great tasks are performed.Unless peace can be firmly established and the prevailing obsession with money and power profoundly modified, there is no hope of any desirable change being made.

Aldous Huxley

#2. Mankind's obsession with money and greed has them going down a one way street to their demise.

Steven Magee

#3. Some people act as though art that is for a mass audience is not good art, and I think this has been a very negative thing. I know that I have wanted very much to write books that are accessible to the widest audience possible.

Bell Hooks

#4. Anything that makes you feel good is always going to be drawing in more.

John Gray

#5. This Guph was really a clever rascal, and it seems a pity he was so bad, for in a good cause he might have accomplished much.

L. Frank Baum

#6. Money's important. Everyone cares about money. And when you don't have money, money becomes the overriding obsession of your life.

Paul Auster

#7. I've always hated the term 'alternative'; I only use it because when I say it, people know what I'm talking about. I always thought it was weird when guys like myself or Patton Oswalt or Dana Gould, these older guys, were called 'alternative' comedy.

Brian Posehn

#8. As God was expunged from American life, idols came in to fill the void; idols of sensuality, idols of greed, of money, of success, comfort, materialism, pleasure, sexual immorality, self-worship, self-obsession. The sacred increasingly disappeared, and the profane took its place.

Jonathan Cahn

#9. In depression, all that is happening in the present is the anticipation of pain in the future, and the present qua present no longer exists at all. Depression is a condition that is almost unimaginable to anyone who has not known it.

Andrew Solomon

#10. Today our world is mad in its obsession with pleasure, sex, and money. Its ear is too dull to hear the truth. Most men's eyes are blind. They do not want to see. They do not want to hear. They hurry to their doom.

Billy Graham

#11. It's animal by animal that you save a species.

Diane Ackerman

#12. Clearly prize money received more serious attention than scurvy or signals.

Barbara W. Tuchman

#13. Mind share before market share.

Beth Comstock

#14. People whose lives are not balanced by a healthy love of money suffer from an appalling obsession with personal integrity.

Diane Setterfield

#15. All people talk of money sometimes, everywhere. But not for all people, everywhere, is money the addiction, the obsession, the stimulant, that it seems to be in New York. It is a large part of the clamor, and it is the voice - quite literally - of the man in the street.

Marya Mannes

#16. We are addicted to money and our obsession with it is leading to the destruction of our planet.

Mark Boyle

#17. But what if your obsession has nothing to do with drugs or thrills or money? What if what you want most in the world is to recapture the way life was a week, a month, a year ago-and you are willing to do whatever it takes?

Jodi Picoult

#18. Whatever music you beat on your drum there is somebody who can dance to it.

Chinua Achebe

#19. I wonder what children whose parents have money think about in their spare time.

Gary Shteyngart

#20. Artists thrive on suffering.

Irving Stone

#21. If you truly desire money so keenly that your desire is an obsession, you will have no difficulty in convincing yourself that you will acquire it. The object is to want money, and to be so determined to have it that you convince yourself that you will have it.

Napoleon Hill

#22. Money. The dark obsession of the human race.

Samantha Shannon

#23. It is very good to bridge the gaps between Indian and international cinema.

Anurag Kashyap

#24. I mean its an obsession, you follow the obsession but at the same time you have so many doubts, you know. Why am I wasting so much money going back to this place, taking more pictures? What's the point of it? No one cares about it. I think I care about it but maybe I am deceiving myself.

Alex Webb

#25. black-cloaked monsters chased after me. I shoved helplessly through the brittle pine trees, leafless branches clawing at my flesh. Snow flooded my sneakers, soaking higher and higher on my jeans with every step I took.

Jessica Sorensen