The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated. – H. L. Mencken

The process by which banks create money is so simple that the mind is repelled. – John Kenneth Galbraith

…existence has become an unreasoning, wild dance around the golden calf, a mad worship of God Mammon. In that dance and in that worship man has sacrificed all his finer qualities of the heart and soul — kindness and justice, honor and manhood, compassion and sympathy with his fellowman. – Alexander Berkman, What Is Communist Anarchism?