Almighty dollar is an idiom often used to satirize an obsession for material wealth. (The phrase implies that money is a kind of deity.)
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Famous quotes containing the words almighty dollar, almighty and/or dollar:
“The almighty dollar, that great object of universal devotion.”
—Washington Irving (1783–1859)
“What a wonderful faculty is memory!—the most mysterious and inexplicable in the great riddle of life; that plastic tablet on which the Almighty registers with unerring fidelity the records of being, making it the depository of all our words, thoughts and deeds—this faithful witness against us for good or evil.”
—Susanna Moodie (1803–1885)
“Any time you take a chance you better be sure the rewards are worth the risk because they can put you away just as fast for a ten dollar heist as they can for a million dollar job.”
—Stanley Kubrick (b. 1928)