“Making money out of paper, making paper out of trees
We’re making so much money we can hardly breathe”

Stuck on a Corner
Peace Queer (2008)

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American singer 1966

Phil Vischer (1966) American puppeter

Source: The Philosophical Implications of Talking Vegetables (2005), p. 1

“Everything is the same, the fog says 'We are fog and we fly by dissolving like ephemera,' and the leaves say 'We are leaves and we jiggle in the wind, that's all, we come and go, grow and fall' — Even the paper bags in my garbage pit say 'We are mantransformed paper bags made out of wood pulp, we are kinda proud of being paper bags as long as that will be possible, but we'll be mush again with our sisters the leaves come rainy season' — The tree stumps say 'We are tree stumps torn out of the ground by men, sometimes by the wind, we have big tendrils full of earth that drink out of the earth' — Men say 'We are men, we pull out tree stumps, we make paper bags, we think wise thoughts, we make lunch, we look around, we make a great effort to realise everything is the same.”

Jack Kerouac book Big Sur

Big Sur (1962)

“MAKE MONEY. MAKE MORE MONEY. MAKE OTHER PEOPLE PRODUCE SO AS TO MAKE MORE MONEY.”

L. Ron Hubbard (1911–1986) American science fiction author, philosopher, cult leader, and the founder of the Church of Scientology

"Principles of Money Management" (9 March 1972).
Scientology Policy Letters

“To walk in money through the night crowd, protected by money, lulled by money, dulled by money, the crowd itself a money, the breath money, no least single object anywhere that is not money, money, money everywhere and still not enough, and then no money or a little money or less money or more money, but money, always money, and if you have money or you don't have money it is the money that counts and money makes money, but what makes money make money?”

Henry Miller book Tropic of Capricorn

Tropic of Capricorn (1939)

“Everything reminds Milton of the money supply. Well, everything reminds me of sex, but I keep it out of the paper.”

Robert Solow (1924) American economist

Remark of 1966, quoted in "Who Was Milton Friedman?" http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2007/feb/15/who-was-milton-friedman/, by Paul Krugman, in The New York Review of Books (15 February 2007)