Slave To Money Quotes

#1. Ah! there is not in the world a single man free; for he is either a slave to money or to fortune, or else the people in their thousands or the fear of public prosecution prevents him from following the dictates of his heart.

Euripides

#2. The impression was gaining ground with me that it was a good thing to let the money be my slave and not make myself a slave to money.

John D. Rockefeller

#3. Man is the slave of money, but money is no man's slave

Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa

#4. Who covets more is evermore a slave.

Robert Herrick

#5. If money and material things become the center of our lives, they seize us and make us slaves.

Pope Francis

#6. The essence of all slavery consists in taking the product of another's labor by force. It is immaterial whether this force be founded upon ownership of the slave or ownership of the money that he must get to live.

Leo Tolstoy

#7. Be your money's master, not its slave.

Publilius Syrus

#8. Money is not the master but the slave of a wise man.

Debasish Mridha

#9. Money is the excellent slave and a horrible master.

P.T. Barnum

#10. Sex, drugs, money, power etc. Just because you get to choose your master doesn't mean you aren't a slave.

LeCrae

#11. Take responsibility for your finances or get used to taking orders for the rest of your life. You're either a master of money or a slave to it. Your choice.

Robert Kiyosaki

#12. Money is a new form of slavery, and distinguishable from the old simply by the fact that it is impersonal - that there is no human relation between master and slave.

Leo Tolstoy

#13. The free worker receives a wage; the slave an education, food, care, clothing; the money that the master spends to keep the slave is drained little by little and in detail; one hardly perceives it.1

Alexis De Tocqueville

#14. 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

#15. I think the person who takes a job in order to live - that is to say, for the money [not for purpose or passion]- has turned himself into a slave.

Joseph Campbell

#16. Money is both the generation and corruption of purchased honor; honor is both the child and slave of potent money: the credit which honor hath lost, money hath found. When honor grew mercenary, money grew honorable. The way to be truly noble is to contemn both.

Francis Quarles

#17. When everything is subject to money, then the scarcity of money makes everything scarce, including the basis of human life and happiness. Such is the life of the slave - one whose actions are compelled by threat to survival. Perhaps the deepest indication of our slavery is the monetization of time.

Charles Eisenstein

#18. When you're doing a network show in the States, you're just a slave to the ratings. There's so much money invested that there's this pervasive atmosphere of fear and anxiety. Every morning after an episode of your show airs, everyone is fixated on the numbers to try and determine how the show did.

Jeffrey Klarik

#19. You married me to be your kitchen slave? I thought you wanted my money and my body." "Sweetheart, I want it all.

Sharon Srock

#20. We are all slaves to the shining metal.

Douglas William Jerrold

#21. Once people said: Give me liberty or give me death. Now they say: Make me a slave, just pay me enough.

Todd Garlington

#22. you do not escape from money by being moneyless. On the contrary, you are the hopeless slave of money until you have enough of it to live on

George Orwell

#23. Having enough money has to go hand in hand with living in a way that you're not being a slave to your possessions.

Patton Oswalt