Stephen A. Smith Quotes

Things are done according to money these days.

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.

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.

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…

The bourgeois takes economic power very seriously, and often worships it quite unselfishly.

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.

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

Pound notes are the best religion in the world.

Here in the United States, we're consumed by our love of money and status. We think bigger is better, and if we can just get that promotion, all will be well with our souls. There's one fatal flaw to this mindset: it's all smoke and mirrors.

No graven images may be Worshipped, except the currency.

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.

Be glad that you're greedy; the national economy would collapse if you weren't.

There's nothing as real as money.

I think one of the most pervasive evils in this world is greed and acquiring money for money's sake. Once you have six houses and a plane, it's just about a number. It's never been anything I understood.

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

Making money is certainly the one addiction I cannot shake.

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

Wal-Mart doesn't really care about your faith. Wal-Mart cares if you have money to spend, and it is going to be as generic as possible in exploiting the holiday season for every buck it can make.

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

I would say that Bob Dylan is as interested in money as any person I've known in my life. That's just the truth.

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

Materialism has never been so ominous as now in North America, as management takes over.

Money is our madness, our vast collective madness.

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

Money is the most corrosive aspect of life today because it means that all attention to detail is forgotten.