I am ugly, but I can buy for myself the most beautiful of women. I, according to my individual characteristics, am lame, but money furnishes me with twenty-four feet. Therefore I am not lame. Money is the supreme good, therefore its possessor is good. It is the common whore, the common procurer of people and nations.
Money is the alienated ability of mankind.
That which I am unable to do as a man, and of which therefore all my individual essential powers are incapable, I am able to do by means of money. The difference between effective demand based on money and ineffective demand based on my need, my passion, my wish, etc., is the difference between being and thinking , between the idea which merely exists within me and the idea which exists as a real object outside of me. On the other hand, if I have really no vocation for study but have the will and the money for it, I have an effective vocation for it. In the light of this characteristic alone, money is thus the general distorting of individualities which turns them into their opposite and confers contradictory attributes upon their attributes. Money, then, appears as this distorting power both against the individual and against the bonds of society, etc., which claim to be entities in themselves.