Quotes about Power and money

We kept the old male ideas of success: power and money. We need new ones! Votes: 3

The world tells us to seek success, power and money; God tells us to seek humility, service and love. Votes: 3

As a Londoner I was able to see how the world of power and money cast its shadow on those who failed. Votes: 3

Something happens to people around fame and power and money - it can bring out the worst and best in people; it's a monster you have to tame. Votes: 3

The problem is, we live in a society where all that interests us is power and money. So we don't have any interest in our children, and what we leave for our children is not important. Votes: 3

In India, it's hard not to have Gandhi as a hero. To give up everything - including power and money - and to live for his countrymen, that beats everything else. He's a role model of selflessness. Votes: 3

When the National Security Agency recruited me, they put me through a day of lie detector tests. They found out all my weaknesses and immediately seduced me. They used the strongest drugs in our culture, sex, power and money, to win me over. Votes: 3

Regarding national security, we need to restore the defense cuts of Barack Obama to rebuild our military, to destroy ISIS before it destroys us. Regarding economic security, we need to take power and money away from Washington D.C. and empower American families so that they can rise up again. Votes: 3

Police/gangster films always have a huge following and huge audience because of the power, glamour, and certain fantasy aspect they have to them. When people watch movies, they like to fantasize being in a surreal world, and sometimes a criminal world can be attractive because you possess so much power and money, not like the average 9 to 5 guy. Votes: 3

From the union of power and money, from the union of power and secrecy, from the union of government and science, from the union of government and art, from the union of science and money, from the union of ambition and ignorance, from the union of genius and war, from the union of outer space and inner vacuity, the Mad Farmer walks quietly away. Votes: 3

Prestige is the shadow of money and power. Votes: 2

Money, celebrity and power can be very intoxicating. Votes: 2

You can have your titular recognition. I'll take money and power. Votes: 2

Money creates a power relationship between the payer and the payee. Votes: 2

Women with money and women in power are two uncomfortable ideas in our society. Votes: 2

Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys. Votes: 2

Money has power. And so withholding money has power too, especially when a bunch of people do it together. Votes: 2

That is where the power, opportunity, and choice come from-when you have money. Money equals opportunity. There is no question. Votes: 2

The more money you take away from families is the less power that family has. And that's a basic power. Votes: 2

The power which money gives is that of brute force; it is the power of the bludgeon and the bayonet. Votes: 2

It's wherever business rules, business is going to get the politicians they want because they control the money and money controls the power. Votes: 2

Money is power, and in that government which pays all the public officers of the states will all political power be substantially concentrated. Votes: 2

I felt guilty throughout the whole time, but I was seduced. The power of these drugs, sex, power, and money, was extremely strong for me. Votes: 2

In a democracy there are only two types of power: there's organized people and organized money, and organized money only wins when people aren't organized. Votes: 2

Citigroup has a lot of money, it spends a lot of money, and it uses that money to grow and consolidate power. And it pays off. Votes: 2

The power to regulate the value of money does not involve a power to dilute the value of money by inflation, an absurd and self-serving rendering. Votes: 2

If you print money like in Zimbabwe... the purchasing power of money goes down, and the standards of living go down, and eventually, you have a civil war. Votes: 2

The United States is the only power in history that became great by giving and not by taking. I think the crisis was when the United States had more money than ideas. Money doesn't produce money. Ideas produce money. Votes: 2

From this process has emerged a parallel process of translating traditional working and living values into a new political and economic power - a power increasingly based upon the strength of money and those material things money can purchase. Votes: 2

Money is just another word for power. Votes: 1

Money is power and power gives you choice. Votes: 1

No, money is power. Votes: 0

Money is economic power. Votes: 0

Money: power at its most liquid. Votes: 0

Knowledge is power is time is money. Votes: 0

Money can buy many things. Even power. Votes: 0

Money is power. Power is an aphrodisiac. Votes: 0

To limit money is to limit political power. Votes: 0

Power floats like money, like language, like theory. Votes: 0

Crime, money, power, drugs - are all linked. Votes: 0

What power has law where only money rules. Votes: 0

Money holds terrible power when it is loved Votes: 0

Money has much more power down the ballot. Votes: 0

Givers for God disarm the power of money. Votes: 0

I think money, power, fame changes people a lot. Votes: 0

Money, media, and political power are very closely connected. Votes: 0

The one thing women love more than money is power. Votes: 0

Money is power in American politics. It always has been. Votes: 0

The problem with politics isn't the money; it's the power. Votes: 0

The greatest power is not money power, but political power. Votes: 0

When money disappears, we soon understand the power of absence. Votes: 0

Money equals power; power makes the law; and law makes government. Votes: 0

Money and power come as a byproduct of things well done. Votes: 0

The ultimate source of happiness is not money and power, but warm-heartedness Votes: 0

I believe the power to make money is a gift of God. Votes: 0

The smaller the office, the more power individuals with big money have. Votes: 0

Money often costs too much, and power and pleasure are not cheap. Votes: 0

The real power of money is the power to give it away. Votes: 0

The world is ruled by power and power is obtained by money. Votes: 0

You can have your titular recognition. I'll take the money and the power. Votes: 0

A real dictator usually isn't interested in money or women, just pure power. Votes: 0

Many people think that happiness comes from having more power or more money. Votes: 0

Money is power, and you ought to be reasonably ambitious to have it. Votes: 0

It's not about money. The money will flow. It's about power and influence. Votes: 0

Many people think that happiness comes from having more power or more money. Votes: 0

Spirit is the most valuable asset, more than money and any other power. Votes: 0

A lot of enslaved people actually made money, but they had no power. Votes: 0

Real peace is not in power, money, or weapons, but in deep inner peace. Votes: 0

The game is rigged to work for those who already have money and power. Votes: 0

It is expressions of affection rather than money and power that attract real friends. Votes: 0

Compromising your integrity for money, power, or fame will come back to haunt you. Votes: 0

Money equals business which equals power, all of which come from character and trust. Votes: 0

When once enthusiasm has been turned into ridicule, everything is undone except money and power. Votes: 0

Politics isn't about big money or power games; it's about the improvement of people's lives. Votes: 0

Money is not a substitute for tenderness, and power is not a substitute for tenderness. Votes: 0

Money and donations are an important part of our political system. They are hard power. Votes: 0

Enthusiasm is the greatest asset in the world. It beats money and power and influence. Votes: 0

Internet fame is like regular fame only without all the annoying 'money' and 'power.' Votes: 0

We have turned away from the natural world. Instead, it's all about money and power. Votes: 0

Money is power, freedom, a cushion, the root of all evil, the sum of blessings. Votes: 0

Everyone has the brain power to make money in stocks. Not everyone has the stomach. Votes: 0

Loving money at the expense of others is an abuse of power to get wealth. Votes: 0

There are jobs, money and survival in renewable energy. Our only safe future is sun power Votes: 0

Money is power, and rare are the heads that can withstand the possession of great power. Votes: 0

Power is like money. Some know how to get it; few know how to use it. Votes: 0

Simply put, the direct power over the money supply is the indirect power over the people. Votes: 0

Until we realize that our money power is our sovereign power we cannot act as sovereigns Votes: 0

Good health is the most important thing. More than success. More than money. More than power. Votes: 0

Power and machinery, money and goods, are useful only as they set us free to live. Votes: 0

"Freedom" in capitalist countries exists only for those who possess money and who consequently hold power. Votes: 0

Power goes to two poles-to those who've got the money and those who've got the people. Votes: 0

When the President signs this act, the invisible government by the money power will be legalized. Votes: 0

The only wealth in this world is children, more than all the money, power on earth. Votes: 0

When one lives attached to money, pride or power, it is impossible to be truly happy Votes: 0

He offered her power, money, status...a giant prison, all in exchange for only...her soul. Votes: 0

Whenever people with money have power over people with less money, you have the potential for exploitation. Votes: 0

At the point the money hits your hands, you have the power to determine your financial future. Votes: 0

Politics isn't about big money or power games, it's about the improvement of people's lives. Paul Wellstone Votes: 0

Money, or even power, can never yield happiness unless it be accompanied by the goodwill of others. Votes: 0

Money is only unused power. The real purpose of wealth, after food, clothing and shelter, is philanthropy. Votes: 0

By using power, money, fraud, the enemy is interested in gaining control over the world of Islam. Votes: 0

Don't waste the time. Time is the final currency, man. Not money, not power - it's time. Votes: 0

The man is meant to be the alpha in the relationship on the money and power front. Votes: 0

The rich are different than you and me: they have more money and they have more power. Votes: 0

I deny the power of the general government to making paper money, or anything else a legal tender. Votes: 0

You`ve got to just follow the money [in Washington]. You see it. There`s no countervailing power. Votes: 0

The money power denounces, as public enemies, all who question its methods or throw light upon its crimes. Votes: 0

New York City is a great monument to the power of money and greed... a race for rent. Votes: 0

The people of this country, not special interest big money, should be the source of all political power. Votes: 0

Believing that power is much more important than money and that money is much more important than happiness. Votes: 0

How can a world be good in which Money is the moving power, and Self-interest the guiding star? Votes: 0

Your identity depends on your heart's ability to excuse not on the power or the money you own. Votes: 0

Today, idols are not made of wood, stone, or brass. They are made of money, sex, and power. Votes: 0

Roxanne Quimby wanted money and power, and I was just a pillar on the way to that success. Votes: 0

I love the fame and the money and the power. You have to keep working to have that. Votes: 0

You could get the money, you can get the power, but keep your eyes on the final hour. Votes: 0

Neither a state nor a bank ever have had unrestricted power of issuing paper money without abusing that power. Votes: 0

Through money or power you cannot solve all problems. The problem in the human heart must be solved first. Votes: 0

Money, amazingly, is losing its power... Our economy is rapidly changing from a money economy to a satisfaction economy. Votes: 0

Sex, drugs, money, power etc. Just because you get to choose your master doesn't mean you aren't a slave. Votes: 0

True friendship develops not as a result of money or power but on the basis of genuine human affection. Votes: 0

Never make fun of people who are different...unless they have more money, power and influence. Then you must. Votes: 0

Success isn't measured by money or power or social rank. Success is measured by your discipline and inner peace. Votes: 0

People kill for money or for power. But the most ruthless murderers are those who kill for their ideas. Votes: 0

Dick Cheney and Bush's rise to power were built on tons of money from corporations and a dulled press. Votes: 0

Friends, genuine friends, have much more to do with whether we have a warm heart, not money or power. Votes: 0

Two passions have powerful influence on the affairs of men: the love of power and the love of money. Votes: 0

Enthusiasm is the greatest asset you can possess, for it can take you further than money, power or influence. Votes: 0

Never work just for money or for power. They won't save your soul or help you sleep at night. Votes: 0

The central element in the economic problem of money is the objective exchange-value of money, popularly called its purchasing power. Votes: 0

Actually, I have no regard for money. Aside from its purchasing power, it's completely useless as far as I'm concerned. Votes: 0

What I know is that taxation, as far as liberal Democrats are concerned, is not about money. It's about power. Votes: 0

If you increase the quantity of money, you bring about the lowering of the purchasing power of the monetary unit. Votes: 0

What I know is that taxation, as far as liberal Democrats are concerned, is not about money. It's about power. Votes: 0

Actually, power is like money; neither good nor bad. Its negative or positive spin depends upon how we use it. Votes: 0

Money will cease to be master and become the servant of humanity. Democracy will rise superior to the money power. Votes: 0

Increased wages, higher pensions, more unemployment insurance, all are of no avail if the purchasing power of money falls faster. Votes: 0

The government doesn't have any money. The only power it has is to take from some and give to others. Votes: 0

... there are many to whom money has no personal appeal, but who can be tempted by the power it confers. Votes: 0

When men have money and power they get turned on, sexually. They get horny as hell. Can't imagine why, though. Votes: 0

Men such as they are, very naturally seek money or power; and power because it is as good as money. Votes: 0

They used to say that knowledge is power. I used to think so, but I know now they mean money. Votes: 0

If happiness was in money or power, then America should be the happiest country in the world, but it is not. Votes: 0

[T]he public library is where those without money, power, access, university affiliation, or advanced degrees can get information for free.. Votes: 0

Power is a drug on which the politicians are hooked. They buy it from the voters, using the voters' own money. Votes: 0

Bach and Beethoven, all of them, they had to write something to please the upper structure, those with money and power. Votes: 0

That dreams have power only over your own mind. But with money you can have power over the minds of others Votes: 0

The new source of power is not money in the hands of a few, but information in the hands of many. Votes: 0

It's an issue that Democrats and Republicans seem to come together on, the over-influence of money in politics and in power. Votes: 0

Money is a bad god. People are a bad god. They don't have the power to do what God can do. Votes: 0

When you give government the power to control the money supply, it grows like a tumor until it extinguishes society itself. Votes: 0

The issuing power [of money] should be taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs. Votes: 0

Men who accomplish great things in the industrial world are the ones who have faith in the money producing power of ideas. Votes: 0

As the old saying goes, 'money is power' and the more money the government takes, the more power it has over individuals. Votes: 0

Big corporations have money and power to make sure every rule breaks their way; people have voices and votes to push back. Votes: 0

The diet book is one of those fool-and-money separation devices that seems, like roulette or slot machines, never to lose its power. Votes: 0

Naive inflationism demands an increase in the quantity of money without suspecting that this will diminish the purchasing power of the money. Votes: 0

Records, radio, television, movies, magazines-all are monopolized by the money managers who are guided by one ethic, the words wealth and power. Votes: 0

Celebrity is no different from any other energy. It's a force for good or evil. It's no different from money. It's power. Votes: 0

A man should not be judged by his fame, power, or money, but rather by how much love he gives to others. Votes: 0

It doesn't matter if you have a lot or a little money. It's what you do with it that determines its power. Votes: 0

To an imagination of any scope the most far reaching form of power is not money, it is the command of ideas Votes: 0

Success is not important to me, nor are power or money. If the script feels good, then I'm in. It's that simple. Votes: 0

If you are going into show business for money and power, forget it! It won't happen. You don't go for that first. Votes: 0

Make Money a CENTRAL priority. This has nothing to do with greed and consumption and everything to do with life force and power. Votes: 0

Printing money is merely taxation in another form. Rather than robbing citizens of their money, government robs their money of its purchasing power. Votes: 0

Some men worship rank, some worship heroes, some worship power, some worship God, and over these ideals they dispute-but they all worship money. Votes: 0

How much fame, money and power does a woman have to achieve on her own before you can punch her in the face? Votes: 0

Money power means budget power and it is folly to imagine that the citizen can control government unless he can control its budget. Votes: 0

It's the people without the money and the power, who desperately want to live, for those people small things aren't small at all. Votes: 0

[It is a basic principle of a tyrant] to unarm his people of weapons, money and all means whereby they resist his power. Votes: 0

I'm free of an abusive cult, based on money and power that worships a fictional deity and safely back with the Catholic Church. Votes: 0

This is a wonderful planet, and it is being completely destroyed by people who have too much money and power and no empathy. Votes: 0

Teach girls to read and to work at something where they can bring home money - and the entire balance of power shifts. Votes: 0

The Constitution grants only Congress - not the president - the power 'to borrow money on the credit of the United States.' Votes: 0

When we do not adore God, we adore something else. Money and power are false idols which often take the place of God. Votes: 0

'Winning' in Hollywood means not just power, money, and complimentary smoked-salmon pizza, but also that everyone around you fails just as you are peaking. Votes: 0

The key to growth is quite simple: creative men with money. The cause of stagnation is similarly clear: depriving creative individuals of financial power. Votes: 0

Winning' in Hollywood means not just power, money, and complimentary smoked-salmon pizza, but also that everyone around you fails just as you are peaking. Votes: 0

In a society dominated by the fact of commercial competition, money is necessarily the test of prowess, and wastefulness the sole criterion of power. Votes: 0

Money gives you the power to do whatever you want to do. I like the idea of being in complete control of my life. Votes: 0

The man of power is ruined by power, the man of money by money, the submissive man by subservience, the pleasure seeker by pleasure. Votes: 0

It's all mirror, mirror on the wall because beauty is power the same way money is power the same way a gun is power. Votes: 0

If you work for money, you give the power to your employer. If your money works for you, you keep and control the power. Votes: 0

Money and power by themselves are a two-legged stool. You can balance on them for a while, but eventually you're going to topple over. Votes: 0

You who are in power have only the means that money produces — we who are in expectation, have those which devotion prompts. Votes: 0

Psychopaths are social predators, and like all predators, they are looking for feeding grounds. Wherever you get power, prestige and money, you will find them. Votes: 0

Not just personal unhappiness but all strife in life, including war, is the result of an over-emphasis on temporary things; money, power and material possession Votes: 0

The first thing I learned was that even if you have a lot of money and power and fame, you can still suffer very deeply. Votes: 0

In large commercial cities, the money power is, I fear irresistible. It is not by open corruption that it always, or even most generally, operates. Votes: 0

The system shaves the dice on the side of those with money and power, and anyone who believes otherwise deserves anything that happens to him. Votes: 0

There is a lure in power. It can get into a man's blood just as gambling and lust for money have been known to do Votes: 0

I think sometimes you just lose your focus, and I think that's easy to do when you start getting more fame, more money, more power. Votes: 0

We who are gathered here may represent a particular delete, not of money and power, but of concern for the earth for the earth's sake. Votes: 0

Money and power can liberate only if they are used to do so. They can imprison and inhibit more finally than barred windows and iron chains. Votes: 0

Young film makers should learn how to deal with the money and learn how to deal with the power structure. Because it is like a battle. Votes: 0

It is unfortunately none too well understood that, just as the State has no money of its own, so it has no power of its own. Votes: 0

I don't blame the players today for the money. I blame the owners. They started it. They wanna give it to 'em? More power to 'em. Votes: 0

power can be thought of as the never-ending, self-feeding motor of all political action that corresponds to the legendary unending accumulation of money that begets money. Votes: 0

It is shameful and inhuman to treat men like chattels to make money by, or to regard them merely as so much muscle or physical power. Votes: 0

I can all have all the money in the world, hold all the power, or be worshiped like a god but all are meaningless without love. Votes: 0

Money is power. Every good man and woman ought to strive for power, to do good with it when obtained. I say, get rich, get rich! Votes: 0

Don't underestimate the cosmetic power of sunglasses. It's worth spending a bit of money on a quality pair. I usually go for Dior or Louis Vuitton. Votes: 0

Money confers the power to command the labor of others. Love of money is love of power. And love of power is the root of evil. Votes: 0

When men in relationships have more money, we say they have the power. When women in relationships have more money, we say they are being used. Votes: 0

The reality is that politicians, in terms of the amount of power they wield and the amount that they work, don't actually make that much money. Votes: 0

money usually represents so much more than dollars and cents. It is tied up with our deepest emotional needs: for love, power, security, independence, control, self-worth. Votes: 0

Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health, knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions. Votes: 0

When women breached the power structure in the 1980s?two economies finally merged. Beauty was no longer just a symbolic form of currency: it literally became money. Votes: 0

Money does not buy you love, the heart does. Power does not buy you favor, 'WILL" does. Ignorance doesn't buy you"GOOD", the love of knowledge does. Votes: 0

Unless we love natural goods - sex, alcohol, food, money, success, power - in the way God intended, we become their slaves, as any addict can attest. Votes: 0

There are probably several hundred thousand if we narrow the definition to include only those who in their search for money and power are ruthless and deceitful. Votes: 0

The Pentagon talks about our power to 'overkill' Russia ten times, twenty times, perhaps forty-eight times. For my tax money, it is sufficient to overkill them once. Votes: 0

In all important respects, the man who has nothing but his physical power to sell has nothing to sell which it is worth anyone's money to buy Votes: 0

There is only one thing in this world, and that is to keep acquiring money and more money, power and more power. All the rest is meaningless. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

But if inventions have increased man's power over nature very much, then the real value of money is better measured for some purposes in labour than in commodities. Votes: 0

Politics is not about power. Politics is not about money. Politics is not about winning for the sake of winning. Politics is about the improvement of people's lives. Votes: 0

A lot of celebrities just want money, fame, power, fancy cars, houses all over the world and have people BOW DOWN to them. To me, that's frightful behaviour. Votes: 0

Greed may not be good, but it's not so bad either. You humans think greed is just for money or power, but everyone wants something they can't have. Votes: 0

True wealth is not measured in money or status or power. It is measured in the legacy we leave behind for those we love and those we inspire. Votes: 0

Money is power, money is force, money will do good as harm. In the hands of good men and women it could accomplish, and it has accomplished, good. Votes: 0

I believe - though I may be wrong, because I'm no expert - that this war is about what most wars are about: hegemony, money, power and oil. Votes: 0

I'm not afraid of wanting money at all. Money will give me more power to do things that are truer to my spirit than what I'm already doing. Votes: 0

I believe the power to make money is a gift from God...to be developed and used to the best of our ability for the good of mankind. Votes: 0

The offers were, like, a lot of money - maybe not for other actors, but definitely for me. But I don't want that power. I don't want $20-million power. Votes: 0

I define power as control over ones life. A balanced life is far superior to the male definition of power: earning money someone else spends while he dies sooner. Votes: 0

The huge capacity to purchase submission that goes with any large sum of money, well, this we have. This is a power of which we should all be aware. Votes: 0

Money and power are not your true rewards. Your name, your principles, your impeccable standards, your virtuous conduct, and remains an influence with others long after you are gone. Votes: 0

The proper way to create friends is to have a warm heart, not simply money or power. The friend of power and the friend of money are something different. Votes: 0

You cannot reduce the power of story with the tag of money because it's not a share market. So you must know the seriousness of the power of storytelling. Votes: 0

One does not need buildings, money, power, or status to practice the Art of Peace. Heaven is right where you are standing, and that is the place to train. Votes: 0

The first requisite of a sound monetary system is that it put the least possible power over the quantity or quality of money in the hands of the politicians. Votes: 0

New York was no mere city. It was instead an infinitely romantic notion, the mysterious nexus of all love and money and power, the shining and perishable dream itself. Votes: 0

Others loved themselves, money, theories, power: Lenin loved his fellow men.... Lenin was God, as Christ was God, because God is Love and Christ and Lenin were all Love! Votes: 0

Power is America's last dirty word. It is easier to talk about money - and much easier to talk about sex - than it is to talk about power. Votes: 0

We fight for money ,we fight for power but after death nothings will be with youonly thing will be with you is your selfless work for needy and poor Votes: 0

I define power as 'control over one's life.' A balanced life is far superior to the male definition of power: earning money someone else spends while he dies sooner. Votes: 0

The evil queen was stupid to play Snow White's game. There's an age where a woman has to move on to another kind of power. Money, for example. Or a gun. Votes: 0

Three things ruin a man: power, money, and women. I never wanted power. I never had any money, and the only woman in my life is up at the house right now. Votes: 0

The only force that can sustain true and consistent courage is some form of spiritual belief that values like honor, duty, loyalty and integrity above the status, power, money and even security. Votes: 0

God does not give money. He gives the power to get wealth. Votes: -1