We are the only real aristocracy in the world: the aristocracy of money.

Don’t matter how much money you got, there’s only two kinds of people: there’s saved people and there’s lost people.

Modern education has devoted itself to the teaching of impudence, and then we complain that we can no longer control our mobs.

If you’re too free, you’re like the way Hong Kong is now. It’s very chaotic.

All government, of course, is against liberty.

No one is so miserable as the poor person who maintains the appearance of wealth.

Right now it’s only a notion, but I think I can get the money to make it into a concept, and later turn it into an idea.

A society made up of individuals who were all capable of original thought would probably be unendurable.

In a higher phase of communist society… only then can the narrow horizon of bourgeois right be fully left behind and society inscribe on its banners: from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs.

We continue to recognize the greater ability of some to earn more than others. But we do assert that the ambition of the individual to obtain for him a proper security is an ambition to be preferred to the appetite for great wealth and great power.

Our generation in the west was lucky: we had readymade gateways. We had books, paper, teachers, schools and libraries. But many in the world lack these luxuries. How do you practice without such tryout venues?

In societies that profess some respect for law, suspects are apprehended and brought to fair trial. I stress ‚suspects.‘

Money doesn’t make you happy. I now have $50 million but I was just as happy when I had $48 million.

My principles are more important than the money or my title.

Part of your heritage in this society is the opportunity to become financially independent.

Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.

Art never harms itself by keeping aloof from the social problems of the day: rather, by so doing, it more completely realises for us that which we desire.

For I can raise no money by vile means.

I am concerned about the whole man. I am concerned about what the people, using their government as an instrument and a tool, can do toward building the whole man, which will mean a better society and a better world.

I just feel like, with rappers, there’s so much complacency. It’s like, ‚Oh, I’m a rapper. I’m successful. I make money. That’s all that matters.‘ But there’s a lot of stuff going on in the world. Whether or not you’re aware of it, it’s happening.

No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money.

Behind all their personal vanity, women themselves always have an impersonal contempt for woman.

Americans are rising to the tasks of history, and they expect the same of us.

Every family should have the right to spend their money, after tax, as they wish, and not as the government dictates. Let us extend choice, extend the will to choose and the chance to choose.

Like every other good thing in this world, leisure and culture have to be paid for. Fortunately, however, it is not the leisured and the cultured who have to pay.

A bookstore is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking.

All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded the individual.

People who bowl vote. Bowlers are not the cultural elite.

Rappers aren’t the really rich ones. We all have nice houses with studios and cars, but you need a piece of someone’s business to be super wealthy.

If you’ve lost your spirit, even living in the richest country in the world can’t help you become rich.

You notice how liberals keep saying, ‚If only Islam would have a Reformation‘ – it can’t have one. It says it can’t. It’s extremely dangerous in that way.

All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That’s his.

If you want to be perfect, go, sell your possessions and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven.

It’s vulgar, coming from where I do, to talk about money.

This world of ours… must avoid becoming a community of dreadful fear and hate, and be, instead, a proud confederation of mutual trust and respect.

If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.

Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, Thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. Thought is great and swift and free.

We live in an imperfect world, and imperfect people surround us every day.

Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion is.

Governments are not representative. They have their own power, serving segments of the population that are dominant and rich.

I would as soon leave my son a curse as the almighty dollar.

Contrary to reports, this boy is not a billionaire or going to be richer than any Beatle… and not just in the sense of money, by the way; the Beatles are untouchable – those billionaire reports are a joke.

Money and investing can be complex, confusing, and often boring subjects.

No one has ever become poor by giving.

I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.

I went into the business for the money, and the art grew out of it. If people are disillusioned by that remark, I can’t help it. It’s the truth.

We must rekindle the fire of idealism in our society.

One day a guy tried to rob me on the street, and I had no money. So I charged him.

Gold is a treasure, and he who possesses it does all he wishes to in this world, and succeeds in helping souls into paradise.

It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.

Europe became rich because it exploited Africa; and the Africans know that.

It is necessary for him who lays out a state and arranges laws for it to presuppose that all men are evil and that they are always going to act according to the wickedness of their spirits whenever they have free scope.

I live in a crazy time.

To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.

The lack of money is the root of all evil.

The use of money is all the advantage there is in having it.

The number, the industry, and the morality of the priesthood, and the devotion of the people have been manifestly increased by the total separation of the church from the state.

There can be no liberty unless there is economic liberty.

Without frugality none can be rich, and with it very few would be poor.

We live in ugly times.

Hatred is something peculiar. You will always find it strongest and most violent where there is the lowest degree of culture.