Money is the barometer of a society's virtue. When you see that trading is done, not by consent, but by compulsion--when you see that in order to produce you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing--when you seen that money is flowing to those who deal, not in goods, but in favors--when you see that men get richer by graft and by pull than by work, and your laws don't protect you against them, but protect them against you--when you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice--you may know that your society is doomed.
Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
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Indeed, the love of money is the root to many kinds of evil.
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