Yeah.. the CIA didnt yet exist when Buddha said that.
Quotes about Money -
Modern bourgeois society with its relations of production, of exchange and of property, a society that has conjured up such gigantic means of production and of exchange, is like the sorcerer, who is no longer able to control the powers of the nether world whom he has called up by his spells. - Karl Marx, 1848
In the field of its highest development, in the United States, the pursuit of wealth, stripped of its religious and ethical meaning, tends to become associated with purely mundane passions, which often actually give it the character of sport. - Max Weber, 1905
One bag of money is stronger than two bags of truth. - Danish Proverb
Avarice has so seized upon mankind that their wealth seems rather to possess them than they to possess their wealth. - Pliny the Younger, c. 110
It was never good times in England since the poor began to speculate upon their condition. Formerly they jogged on with as little reflection as horses. - Charles Lamb, 1830
I am indeed rich, since my income is superior to my expense, and my expense is equal to my wishes. - Edward Gibbon, 1776
Only when the last tree has died and the last river has been poisoned and the last fish has been caught will we realize we cannot eat money. - Cree Indian Proverb, nineteenth century