“I am bad, dishonest, unscrupulous, stupid; but money is honoured, and hence so is its possessor. Money is the supreme good, therefore its possessor is good.

Money, besides, saves me the trouble of being dishonest: I am therefore presumed honest. I am brainless, but money is the real brain of all things and how then should its possessor be brainless?

Besides, he can buy clever people for himself, and is he who has power over the clever not more clever than the clever? Do not I, who thanks to money am capable of all that the human heart longs for, possess all human capacities? Does not my money, therefore, transform all my incapacities into their contrary?”

-Karl Marx “The Power of Money”