Edward Dahlberg Quotes

Everybody in America is so money-hungry. It's like a rat race and even when you win you're still a freaking rat.

The dollar bill is God in the States. All those Pelican people just believe in money and nothing else.

This is a speculating and selfish age; and to think 'money will answer all things,' is too much the characteristic of Americans.

America's critics can be heard everywhere. It is too much in love with money - worshipping the god of the marketplace, the golden calf. It has too much money, seven of the top 10 banks, eight of the top 10 companies etc. It is too stingy, giving away less of its wealth than other countries. It is vulgar, a rich barbarian.

Our fathers worshiped the golden calf. The worst you can say of an American now is, he worships the gold of the calf.

The more money an American accumulates, the less interesting he becomes.

There are a lot of things to get seduced by in America.

It's very American, making a lot of money.

The Almighty Dollar, that great object of universal devotion throughout our land, seems to have no genuine devotees in these peculiar villages.

The worst enslaving trait of all is greed. I rail against the substitution of money for worth. The idea that the endless accumulation of dead money can furnish a meaningful life to sold-out souls is the supreme lie offered by the system of free enterprise.

Why is everybody so obsessed? Money can't buy us happiness

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

The American Dream is really money.

Americans are fascinated by their own love of shopping. This does not make them unique. It's just that they have more to buy than most other people on the planet. And it's also an affirmation of faith in their country.

Money is our madness, our vast collective madness.

There is nothing wrong with men possessing riches. The wrong comes when riches possess men.

The worship of the golden calf of old has found a new and heartless image in the cult of money and the dictatorship of an economy which is faceless and lacking any truly human goal.

I guess it could be said that the inspiration for 'Requiem for a Dream' is watching the American dream not only destroy so many lives in the U.S., but infect the rest of the world with its obsession with getting more, ignoring the deadly effect that has on the planet.

Money, not morality, is the principle commerce of civilized nations.

I feel like this whole idea of wanting something that you don't really have is also very American in a way.

You want to buy cars and houses and castles, all of that's on you and how America has systematized your mind to be into materialism. Hip-hop ain't got nothing to do with that. I'm glad that anybody making money has picked themselves up - I just want them to give some of it back to the community.

When money is seen as a solution for every problem, money itself becomes the problem.

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…

A quarter of a century ago, we were crazy about politics. Now we are crazy about making money …. I am afraid that one day we will become money hooligans without culture.

We must expect for a long time yet to see capitalists still striving to obtain the highest possible profits. But observe, that the passion for wealth is certainly in some senses new. It grew up very rapidly at the beginning of the present century; it was not so strong in the last century, when men were much more content to lead a quiet easy life of leisure. The change has really influenced the relations between men; but in the future it is quite possible that the scramble for wealth may grow less intense, and a change in the opposite direction take place.