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Alexis de Tocqueville2 quotes
The love of wealth is therefore to be traced, as either a principal or accessory motive, at the bottom of all that the Americans do; this gives to all their passions a sort of family likeness. — Alexis de Tocqueville · 1840I know of no country, indeed, where the love of money has taken a stronger hold on the affections of men, and where a profounder contempt is expressed for the theory of the permanent equality of property. — Alexis de Tocqueville · 1835Jesus2 quotes
No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon. — Jesus · 60Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal; but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven. — Jesus · 60Arthur Hugh Clough1 quote
No graven images may be
Worshipped, except the currency. — Arthur Hugh Clough · 1862Avon Barksdale1 quote
You know the difference between me and you? I bleed red and you bleed green. — Avon Barksdale · 2004Bob Marley1 quote
Don't gain the world and lose your soul,
Wisdom is better than silver and gold. — Bob Marley · 1980George Bernard Shaw1 quote
I am a Millionaire. That is my religion. — George Bernard Shaw · 1905P. Diddy1 quote
It's all about the Benjamins, baby — P. Diddy · 1997William James1 quote
The moral flabbiness born of the exclusive worship of the bitch-goddess success. That-with the squalid cash interpretation put on the word success-is our national disease. — William James · 1906