Budd Schulberg Quotes

The more men value money the less they value virtue.

I don't understand it. Jack will spend any amount of money to buy votes but he balks at investing a thousand dollars in a beautiful painting.

The problem is, we live in a society where all that interests us is power and money. So we don't have any interest in our children, and what we leave for our children is not important.

Money is the fruit of evil, as often as the root of it.

There are a handful of people whom money won't spoil, and we all count ourselves among them.

We need leadership that can elevate religion and morality to their position of paramount importance and thus eliminate growing selfishness, immorality and materialism.

No one seems to care for anything but about money today. Nothing is held of account except the bank accounts. Quality, education, civic distinction, public virtue seem each year to be valued less and less.

My native land is a slave of heathenism, men's god is their belly, and they live only for the present. The richer a man, the holier.

We've digressed from the true meaning of life. We have replaced the Creator with money and claim Him in the name of war. We have dishonored our children.

Money makes everybody evil when you think about it.

We worship money instead of honour.

I think that money is the root of all evil. I've seen it happen.

Money is evil.

The quest for riches darkens the sense of right and wrong.

Those who have some means think that the most important thing in the world is love. The poor know that it is money.

Spirituality does two things for you. One, you are forced to become more selfless, two, you trust to providence. The opposite of a spiritual man is a materialist. If I was a materialist I would be making lots of money doing endorsements, doing cricket commentary. I have no interest in that.

Sooner or later, we sell out for money.

He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.

Don't sell your soul to buy peanuts for the monkeys.

Greed has taken the whole universe, and nobody is worried about their soul.

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

Great abundance of riches cannot be gathered and kept by any man without sin.

There are still people in Japan who think money is something evil.

When money comes into play then that's all it's about wanting money, who's making the most who can get the most, me, me me... and in the end it screws up the person and the sport.

The curse of covetousness is that it destroys manhood by substituting money for character.