Sarah Josepha Hale Quotes

There is a strange and mighty race of people called the Americans who are rapidly becoming the coldest in the world because of this cruel, man-eating idol, lucre.

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.

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

Greed is all right ... Greed is healthy. You can be greedy and still feel good about yourself.

MAMMON, n. The god of the world's leading religion. The chief temple is in the holy city of New York.

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

I'm a very smart guy. I haven't a feeling or a scruple in the world. All I have the itch for is money. I am so money greedy that for twenty-five bucks a day and expenses, mostly gasoline and whisky, I do my thinking myself, what there is of it; I risk my whole future, the hatred of the cops . . . I dodge bullets and eat saps, and say thank you very much, if you have any more trouble, I hope you'll think of me, I'll just leave one of my cards in case anything comes up.

Liking money like I like it, is nothing less than mysticism. Money is a glory.

Too many of us now tend to worship self indulgence and consumption.

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.

But men are so full of greed today, they'll sell anything for a little piece of money.

If you talk to most businessmen, they'll say that what they do is for the public good, but you know they're just greedy, and consumers are just consuming for the sake of their own greed.

This has resulted in more and more people becoming inner-directed and having as their only goal, getting as much as they can get out of the system and putting as little into it as possible.

The world is so competitive, aggressive, consumive, selfish and during the time we spend here we must be all but that.

Money is our madness, our vast collective madness.

Consumerism is at once the engine of America and simultaneously one of the most revealing indicators of our collective shallowness.

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.

Homer Simpson is one of my favorite people, though he's not real. He represents the American who's filled with this 'affluenza.' He's constantly exposed to consumption and a sense of bigness, which is a part of being an American.

Sometimes America gets tempted by the glitz and glamour.

Twin-sister of Religion, Selfishness.

I felt that I had worked hard my entire life and deserved to enjoy all the temptations around me. I felt I was entitled, and thanks to money and fame, I didn't have to go far to find them.

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…

me-firstism

There is always greed. There is nothing wrong with greed.