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)
“Remember the rights of the savage, as we call him. Remember that the happiness of his humble home, remember that the sanctity of life in the hill villages of Afghanistan, among the winter snows, is as inviolable in the eye of Almighty God, as can be your own.”
—W.E. (William Ewart)
“Commercial to the core, Elvis was the kind of singer dear to the heart of the music business. For him to sing a song was to sell a song. His G clef was a dollar sign.”
—Albert Goldman (b. 1927)