De Abaitua interview (1998)
Context: The origin of money is something to do with representational thinking. Representational thinking is the real leap, where somebody says ‘hey I can draw this shape on the cave wall and it is, in some way, the bison we saw at the meadow. These lines are the bison. That of course lead to language – this squiggle is, of course, a tree, or something. Is the tree. Money is code for the whole of life – you can bind in everything that is contained within life for money, money is a certain amount of sex, a certain amount of shelter, a certain amount of sustenance. … Money is the code for the entire world. Money is the world, the world in the sense I was talking about earlier, our abstract ideas about the world. Money is a perfect symbol for all that, and if you don’t believe in it, and you set a match to it, it’s just firewood – it doesn’t mean anything anymore.
“The circulation of commodities is the original precondition of the circulation of money.”
Karl Marx (1818–1883) German philosopher, economist, sociologist, journalist and revolutionary socialist
Grundrisse (1857-1858)
Source: Notebook I, The Chapter on Money, p. 107.
Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury (1830–1903) British politician
Statement to the Associated Chambers of Commerce (March 1891)
1890s
Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865) 16th President of the United States
These remarks in support of a government-regulated money supply were written by Gerry McGeer, who presented them as his interpretation of what Lincoln believed. [McGeer, Gerald Grattan, w:Gerald Grattan McGeer, The Conquest of Poverty, 5 - Lincoln, Practical Economist, http://heritech.com/pridger/lincoln/mcgeer/mcgeerv.htm, 2009-07-29, 1935, Garden City Press, Gardenvale, Quebec, 186ff]
Misattributed
GG Allin (1956–1993) American singer-songwriter
GG Allin on The Jerry Springer Show, May 5. 1993.
On The Jerry Springer Show
Kazimir Malevich (1879–1935) Russian and Soviet artist of polish descent
Quote of Malevich, 1927 in Artists on Art; from the 14th – 20th centuries, ed. by Robert Goldwater and Marco Treves; Pantheon Books, 1972, London, pp. 452
1921 - 1930
“I do think at a certain point you've made enough money.”
Barack Obama (1961) 44th President of the United States of America
Remarks by the President on Wall Street Reform in Quincy, Illinois https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/remarks-president-wall-street-reform-quincy-illinois (28 April 2010) <br class="br">2010
“Labour was the first price, the original purchase-money that was paid for all things.”
Adam Smith (1723–1790) Scottish moral philosopher and political economist
It was not by gold or by silver, but by labour, that all the wealth of the world was originally purchased; and its value, to those who possess it, and who want to exchange it for some new productions, is precisely equal to the quantity of labour which it can enable them to purchase or command.
Source: The Wealth of Nations (1776), Book I, Chapter V, p. 38.
Martin Villeneuve (1978) Canadian film director, producer and screenwriter
Martin Villeneuve. " How I made an impossible film https://www.ted.com/talks/martin_villeneuve_how_i_made_an_impossible_film/transcript," Subtitles and Transcript at ted.com, 2015
