Money
- First Epistle to Timothy in the New Testament (1 Timothy 6:10), starts "For the love of money is the root of all kinds of evil"
- Greed, one of the Seven Deadly Sins, the excessive love of money and other possessions
- Radix malorum est cupiditas, Latin for "Greed is the root of all evil"
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Famous quotes containing the word money:
“Having money is rather like being a blond. It is more fun but not vital.”
—Mary Quant (b. 1936)
“The secret point of money and power in America is neither the things that money can buy nor power for power’s sake ... but absolute personal freedom, mobility, privacy. It is the instinct which drove America to the Pacific, all through the nineteenth century, the desire to be able to find a restaurant open in case you want a sandwich, to be a free agent, live by one’s own rules.”
—Joan Didion (b. 1934)
“Colonel “Bat” Guano: Okay, I’m going to get your money for you. But if you don’t get the President of the United States on that phone, you know what’s going to happen to you?
Group Captain Lionel Mandrake: What?
Colonel “Bat” Guano: You’re going to have to answer to the Coca-Cola company.”
—Stanley Kubrick (b. 1928)