""The love of money is the root of all evil". This throws us back on the fundamental weakness of humanity - the quality of desire. Of this money is the result and the symbol... Desire demands the satisfaction of sensed need, the desire for goods and possessions, the desire for material comfort, for the acquisition and accumulation of things... This desire controls and dominates human thinking; it is the keynote of our modern civilisation; it is also the octopus which is slowly strangling human life, enterprise, and decency; it is the millstone around the neck of mankind... There are, however, large numbers of people whose lives are not dominated by the love of money, and who can normally think in terms of the higher values. They are the hope of the future but are individually imprisoned in the system which, spiritually, must end. Though they do not love money, they need it, and must have it; the tentacles of the business world surround them; they too must work and earn the wherewithal to live; the work they seek to do to aid humanity, cannot be done without the required funds."
— Money

Quote Details

Added by wikiquote-import-bot
Unverified quote
0 likes
BusinessEconomicsCommerceWealth
Original Language: English
Available Languages (1)
English (Original)

Sources

Alice Bailey, The Problems of Humanity, p.79/80, (1944)

https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Money

Revision History

No revisions have been submitted for this quote.

  1. Home
  2. /
  3. Business
  4. /
  5. Quote by Money

Categories

BusinessEconomicsCommerceWealth

Money

333 quotes on TrueQuotesView all quotes by Money →

Related Quotes

"Raha auttaa helvetin porttiin saakka. (Oripää, Varsinais-Suomi) (KRA)"
— Money
Proverbs By Language
"Ei rahal sieluu ol. (Lohja, Uusimaa) (KRA)"
— Money
Proverbs By Language
"L’intérêt d’argent est la grande épreuve des petits caractères, mais ce n’est encore que la plus petite pour les cara…"
— Money
BusinessEconomicsCommerce
"All the perplexities, confusions, and distresses in America arise, not from defects in their constitution or confeder…"
— Money
BusinessEconomicsCommerce
"Money, now this has to be some good shit."
— Money
BusinessEconomicsCommerce
"The usual definition of the functions of money are that money is a medium of exchange, a measure of value, a standard…"
— Money
BusinessEconomicsCommerce
"Plato said that virtue has no master. If a person does not honor this principle and rejoice in it, but is purchasable…"
— Money
BusinessEconomicsCommerce
"If you make money your god, it will plague you like the devil."
— Money
BusinessEconomicsCommerce
"Money makes the man."
— Money
BusinessEconomicsCommerce
"This planet has — or rather had — a problem, which was this: most of the people living on it were unhappy for pretty …"
— Money
BusinessEconomicsCommerce
HomePopularAdd Quote
Add Quote
HomePopularWorksQuotesAuthorsCATEGORIES
RECENTLY ADDED

Young though he was, his radiant energy produced such an impression of absolute reliability that Hedgewar made him the first sarkaryavah, or general secretary, of the RSS.

- Gopal Mukund Huddar

Largely because of the influence of communists in London, Huddar's conversion into an enthusiastic supporter of the fight against fascism was quick and smooth. The ease with which he crossed from one worldview to another betrays the fact that he had not properly understood the world he had grown in.

- Gopal Mukund Huddar

Huddar would have been 101 now had he been alive. But then centenaries are not celebrated only to register how old so and so would have been and when. They are usually celebrated to explore how much poorer our lives are without them. Maharashtrian public life is poorer without him. It is poorer for not having made the effort to recall an extraordinary life.

- Gopal Mukund Huddar

I regret I was not there to listen to Balaji Huddar's speech [...] No matter how many times you listen to him, his speeches are so delightful that you feel like listening to them again and again.

- Gopal Mukund Huddar

By the time he came out of Franco's prison, Huddar had relinquished many of his old ideas. He displayed a worldview completely different from that of the RSS, even though he continued to remain deferential to Hedgewar and maintained a personal relationship with him.

- Gopal Mukund Huddar

CATEGORIES
Novelists From The United States29258Thema28471Academics From The United States273392000s American Films18689Person17672