Samuel Johnson Quotes

Money speaks, but it speaks with a male voice.

Money creates a power relationship between the payer and the payee.

The more money you take away from families is the less power that family has. And that's a basic power.

You don't want money to make you a social freak where you can only hang out with rich people.

I care not who forms the government of a country, so long as I control the purse strings.

A politician that is poor is a poor politician.

Money is hardly neutral. Its connection to power makes it a highly charged social phenomenon and a mediator of relationships. Because it has historically been controlled by men, it has given men a tool for controlling women.

Whosoever has money has power. It's not about a label. If you have money tomorrow, you will be powerful.

One of the most considerable advantages the great have over their inferiors is to have servants as good as themselves.

Class is more than money. Class is also about knowledge.

Regardless of the gender of the highest wage earner, the balance of power in the relationship will suffer if the higher earner uses control of the purse strings as a system of reward and punishment. It will also suffer if the lower earner takes a chippy, haughty attitude to spending money they haven't actually generated themselves.

Human nature doesn't change. When enough people are comfortable enough financially, there is going to be human nature that wants to spend more money on better quality and, to some degree, status symbols as well.

When you're in the States and you're a writer and you've got money and you walk into a bank, you're a bum with money.

Hierarchy is is much reviled in the present day.

When kids tried to pick on me, I always had one line to shoot them down with: 'I make more money in a week than you'll make in your entire life.' Which probably wasn't true, but they thought it was.

Water does tend to flow up hill toward money and power.

Them’s that got the gold makes the rules.

Money is the power of the impotent.

Our nation’s political spectrum is not left to right, but top to bottom. People can locate themselves on this rich-to-poor pole for this is not a theoretical positioning: It’s based on our actual experience with money and power.

I am not a wealthy woman. I wish to hell I was, but I never had a wealthy man.

Money is a topic that touches all races, all religions, all sexes, all ages, all tax brackets. It's a universal language that truly has been held up to us in society as a thing that determines whether we are successful, worthy, whether we have contributed something to life or not.

The oligarchic character of the modern English commonwealth does not rest, like many oligarchies, on the cruelty of the rich to the poor. It does not even rest on the kindness of the rich to the poor. It rests on the perennial and unfailing kindness of the poor to the rich.

Even in our democratic New England towns the accidental possession of wealth, and its manifestation in dress and equipage alone, obtain for the possessor almost universal respect.

The aristocracy most widely developed in America is that of wealth.

America is about class. To pretend that it isn't is very ignorant. No society has ever existed without some kind of a ruling class.