"Money doesn’t talk, it swears." - Bob Dylan

"If money is your hope for independence you will never have it.
 The only real security that a man will have in this world
 is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability." - Henry Ford

"We have no money so we will have to think." - Lord Rutherford

"A woman's test is material. A man's test is a woman...  if a man
 could fuck in a cardboard box, he wouldn't buy a house."
 - Rabbi Dave Chappelle

"Coinage is imprinted gold or silver, by which the prices of things
 bought and sold are reckoned...  It is therefore a measure of values.
 A measure, however, must always preserve a fixed and constant
 standard.  Otherwise, public order is necessarily disturbed, with
 buyers and sellers being cheated in many ways, just as if the yard,
 bushel, or pound did not maintain an invariable magnitude."
 - Nicholas Copernicus, "Treatise on Debasement", 1517

"The evils of this deluge of paper money are not to be removed until our
 citizens are generally and radically instructed in their cause and
 consequences, and silence by their authority the interested clamors and
 sophistry of speculating, shaving, and banking institutions.  Till then, we
 must be content to return quo ad hoc to the savage state, to recur to barter
 in the exchange of our property for want of a stable common means of value,
 that now in use being less fixed than the beads and wampum of the Indian, and
 to deliver up our citizens, their property and their labor, passive victims to
 the swindling tricks of bankers and mountebankers." 
 - Thomas Jefferson to John Adams, March 1819

"We all 'ate' the money together."
 - Greece Deputy Prime Minister Theodore Pangalos, to Parliament,
   when asked where the public money had all gone, September 2010

"The study of money, above all other fields in economics, is one in which
 complexity is used to disguise truth or to evade truth, not to reveal it.
 The process by which banks create money is so simple the mind is repelled.
 With something so important, a deeper mystery seems only decent."
 - John Kenneth Galbraith

"Today what we are doing is modernizing the financial services industry,
 tearing down those antiquated laws and granting banks significant new authority."
 - Bill Clinton at the signing of Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act in 1999
   (which ended Glass-Steagall and gave banks full control of the United States of America)

"When the people find that they can vote themselves money,
 that will herald the end of the republic." - Benjamin Franklin

"Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value ZERO." - Voltaire, 1729

"It's a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think
 they can be happy without money." - Albert Camus