Ozzy Osbourne Quotes

Politics, war, marriage, crime, adultery. Everything that exists in the world has something to do with money.

Money talks. It starts rumors about careers and complicity and speaks of the tragedies and triumphs of our social lives.

Washington is a pool of money surrounded by people who want some.

I've always treated money with respect, but I don't really think about money - I try to avoid it, because I don't like what money does to people. I find if you get too much money involved, people get corrupted.

Everything, virtue, glory, honor, things human and divine, all are slaves to riches.

Money shows [man] new ways to cheat life. Power becomes exterior instead of interior. In these circumstances architecture becomes too difficult, building too easy.

Money destroys human roots wherever it is able to penetrate, by turning desire for gain into the sole motive. It easily manages to outweigh all other motives, because the effort it demands of the mind is so very much less. Nothing is so clear and so simple as a row of figures.

Of course, money will do after its kind, and will steadily work to unspiritualize and unchurch the people to whom it was bequeathed.

Money, like vodka, turns a person into an eccentric.

Where does it stop? You get offered money for your wedding, then for your kids, new houses, holidays... We earn enough from football and sponsorships, why do you need any more?

When money comes into play then that's all it's about wanting money, who's making the most who can get the most, me, me me... and in the end it screws up the person and the sport.

I think that money spoils most things, once it becomes the primary motivating force.

What is there that money will not do?

Wall Street is broken for sure because it succumbed to greed and corruption and pure speculation with no values.

The moral problem of our day is concerned with the love of money, with the habitual appeal to the money motive in nine-tenths of the activities of life…

This place is being corrupted by money. Anyone who does not believe this is not living on this planet…. Anybody with their eyes open knows that we have a problem.

All things obey money.

There's the stench of money around this building [the Capitol].

Personal disinterestedness and pecuniary probity do not illustrate the birth of the American Republic. All the agents have obtained exorbitant gains for their manufactures ... The spirit of mercantile cupidity forms, perhaps, one of the distinctive characteristics of the Americans, especially those in the north, and doubtless this will influence the future destinies of the Republic

There is a very uneasy relationship between money and creativity, between money and almost everything. Its tendency to control and corrupt - whether it's in arts or education or politics, hardly anything is untouched by it. Journalism certainly is up there. Everything is susceptible to it.

Money is a bad friend. Don't ever do anything for money.

I lost many friendships because of my wealth. When my friends met me, they had an agenda in mind. Just because I had money, they expected one thing or the other from me, which they didn't before.

If you have $1 billion, you can use the Clinton Foundation as a conduit, and as it goes by, Clinton gives it his prestige.

Money does not change people, people change.

People can so easily be tempted by slackness... and by money.