——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