Money is the Root of All Evil, Root as Useful as Potatoes

"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

Poverty is Only Contemptible When You Make It So

"Poverty is only contemptible when it is felt to be so. Doubtless the best way to make our poverty respectable is to seem never to feel it as an evil" -- Christian Nestell Bovee

Ayn Rand Rant Against Money as Evil Beliefs

"So you think that money is the root of all evil? Have you ever asked what is the root of money? Money is a tool of exchange, which can't exist unless there are goods produced and men able to produce them. Money is the material shape of the principle that men who wish to deal with one another must deal by trade and give value for value. Money is not the tool of the moochers, who claim your product by tears or of the looters, who take it from you by force. Money is made possible only by the men who produce. Is this what you consider evil?" -- Ayn Rand

Money Becomes More Evil as the Supply Dwindles

"Money is evil… and the less we have the more evil it becomes." -- Leonid S. Sukhorukov

Capital Is Not Evil - Will Always Be Needed

"Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil. Capital in some form or other will always be needed." -- Gandhi