Gertrude Stein Quotes

We have grown used to money. The handling, the increase of it, is the chief business of life now with most of us.

Man is a money-making animal, which propensity too often interferes with his benevolence.

Mere animals couldn’t possibly manage to act like this. You need to be a human being to be really stupid.

Man is a clever animal who behaves like an imbecile.

Money is just a way of keeping score.

There's a long tradition in Western thought that humans are not shackled by biology, whereas animals are pure instinct machines.

Every man now worships gold, all other reverence being done away.

Money is like gasoline during a road trip. You don't want to run out of gas on your trip, but you're not doing a tour of gas stations. You have to pay attention to money, but it shouldn't be about the money.

Money won't make you happy... but everybody wants to find out for themselves.

The thing that differentiates man from animals is money.

If an animal does something, we call it instinct; if we do the same thing for the same reason, we call it intelligence.

With the Supremes I made so much money so fast all I wanted to do was buy clothes and pretty things. Now I'm comfortable with money and it's comfortable with me.

Nobody seemed to be interested in anything except making money.

Man is said to be a reasoning animal. I do not know why he has not been defined as an affective or feeling animal. Perhaps that which differentiates him from other animals is feeling rather than reason. More often I have seen a cat reason than laugh or weep. Perhaps it weeps or laughs inwardly - but then perhaps, also inwardly, the crab resolves equations of the second degree.

It is very funny about money. The thing that differentiates man from animals is money. All animals have the same emotions and the same ways as men. Anybody who has lots of animals around knows that. But the thing no animal can do is count, and the thing no animal can know is money.

To endow animals with human emotions has long been a scientific taboo. But if we do not, we risk missing something fundamental, about both animals and us.

I don't use machines - animals don't use machines.

I am always incorrigibly interested in the behaviour of the 'human animal', and look forward to perusing divers effusions of your lively pen.

The human is the only guilty animal.

I find it valid to understand man as an animal before I am prepared to know him as a man.

The animal needing something knows how much it needs, the man does not.

Q: If you could be an animal, what kind of animal would you be? A: You already are an animal.

Generally, or at least very often, people with a deep interest in animals are the best people around.

Chimps are far too much human to be my favorite animal.

Money does not corrupt people. What corrupts people is lack of affection ... Money is simply the bandage which wounded people put over their wounds.