Love of Money Quotes

Money confers the power to command the labor of others. Love of money is love of power. And love of power is the root of evil.

For avarice begins where poverty ends.

Avarice is fear sheathed in gold.

It has been said that the love of money is the root of all evil. The want of money is so quite as truly.

Money is not an aphrodisiac: the desire it may kindle in the female eye is more for the cash than the carrier.

When we do what we really love, money will come, the door will open. We feel useful and work as a game that

Public virtue is the vital spirit of republics, and history proves that when this has decayed and the love of money has usurped its place, although the forms of the free government may remain for a season, the substance has departed forever.

I fear just one thing : Money! Greed was what motivated Judas to sell Jesus

I love money, but will money ever love me in return?

The love for money is only one among many.

There is only one vice, which may be found in life with as strong features, and as high a colouring as needs be employed by any satyrist or comic poet; and that is AVARICE.

We may love money without having it, just as we may have money without loving it.

Avarice and luxury, those evils which have been the ruin of every great state.

The money-getter who pleads his love of work has a lame defense, for love of work at money-getting is a lower taste than love of money.

The love of power, like the love of money, increases with the possession of it; and we know in what ruin these baneful passions have involved human societies in all ages when they have been let loose and suffered to rage uncontrolled - There is no restraint like the pervading eye of the virtuous citizens.

O accursed hunger of gold, to what dost thou not compel human hearts!

I know of no country, indeed, where the love of money has taken stronger hold on the affections of men, and where the profounder contempt is expressed for the theory of the permanent equality of property.

Money is the root of all evil. Yeah, money is the root. It's not racism and "this-ism" and "that-ism"; it's our thirst and hunger for money. And that's where all the bodies are buried.

Money, so they say, is the root of all evil today. But if you ask for a rise it's no surprise that they're giving none away.

The love of money and the love of learning rarely meet.

So for a good old-gentlemanly vice, I think I must take up with avarice.

I don't know if Jesus said it in the Bible, but someone said that 'the love of money is the root of all evil,' and I do think there's a correlation between the ambition that a lot of people have, in terms of financial remuneration, and the loss of core values.

They that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown men in destruction and perdition. For the love of money is the root of all evil.

I'd marry again if I found a man who had fifteen million dollars, would sign over half to me, and guarantee that he'd be dead within a year.

Because parents have power over children. They feel they have to do what their parents say. But the love of money is the root of all evil. And this is a sweet child. And to see him turn like this, this isn't him. This is not him.