所有一切你無法做的事兒,你的錢卻能做到。錢能吃,能喝,能去舞廳跳舞,能去劇場聽歌劇,能去旅遊,能買藝術品,能買學識,能買以前的珍寶,還能買到政權。錢能為你買到所有這一切,錢是真正的財產。盡管如此,然而金錢除了創造自己和購買自己以外其他什麽它都不要,因為其他的一切不過是金錢的奴仆罷了。因此這個社會的所有的熱忱和一切活動都必須孕育在極度貪婪之中。
——卡爾。馬克思, 1844年“經濟和哲學手稿”
…all the things which you cannot do, your money can do. It can eat and, drink, go to the dance hall and the theatre; it can travel, it can appropriate art, learning, the treasures of the past, political power – all this it can appropriate for you – it can buy all this: it is true endowment. Yet being all this, it wants to do nothing but create itself, buy itself; for everything else is after all its servant… All passions and all activity must therefore be submerged in avarice."
— Karl Marx - Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts 1844