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Listen - of course money changes everything, but so does sunlight, and so does food: These are powerful but neutral energy sources, neither inherently good nor evil but shaped only by the way we use them.

— Elizabeth Gilbert

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

It affects every aspect of our lives, is often said to be the root of all evil, and the analysis of the world that it makes possible - what we call 'the economy' - is so important to us that economists have become the high priests of our society. Yet, oddly, there is absolutely no consensus among economists about what money really is.

— David Graeber

If money help a man to do good to others, it is of some value; but if not, it is simply a mass of evil, and the sooner it is got rid of, the better.

— Swami Vivekananda

Money is the root of all evil, and yet it is such a useful root that we cannot get on without it any more than we can without potatoes.

— Louisa May Alcott

The root of all evil isn't money; rather, it's not having enough money.

— Gene Simmons

It has been said that the love of money is the root of all evil. The want of money is so quite as truly.

— Samuel Butler

Money motivates neither the best people, nor the best in people. It can move the body and influence the mind, but it cannot touch the heart or move the spirit; that is reserved for belief, principle, and morality.

— Dee Hock

So you think that money is the root of all evil. Have you ever asked what is the root of all money?

— Ayn Rand

Money doesn't mind if we say it's evil, it goes from strength to strength. It's a fiction, an addiction, and a tacit conspiracy.

— Martin Amis

✗Opposing Perspectives

I think that money is the root of all evil. I've seen it happen.

— Kato Kaelin

Money is evil.

— Dorothy Hamill