“You claim money is the root of all evil. So I simply ask, what is the root of money?”

Money is made possible only by the men who produce
Man's mind is the root of all the goods you choose
And of all the wealth that has ever existed on earth
Wealth is the product of man’s capacity to think

Money is the scourge of the men,
Who attempt to reverse the law of causality
Money will not buy intelligence for the fool,
Or admiration for the coward,
Or respect for the incompetent

Money is the seed
The rood of what is good
The values that you need
Are the virtues of greed

No man may be smaller than his money.
If an heir is equal to his wealth, it serves him
if not, it will surely destroy him
Do not envy a worthless heir
His wealth is not yours and you’d have done no better with it
Loading the world with fifty parasites instead of one
It would not bring back the dead virtue which was the fortune
Money will not serve the mind that cannot match it
Is this the reason you call it evil?

Money is your means of survival.
The verdict you pronounce
upon the source of your livelihood
Is the verdict you pronounce upon your life
If the source is corrupt,
You have damned your own existence

Money is the product of virtue
It will not give virtue to you
It will not redeem your vices.
Your means of survival
Required to succeed
The virtues of greed

Money is the seed
The rood of what is good
The values that you need
Are the virtues of greed

To love money is to know and love the fact
That money is the creation of the best power within you
The man who damns money has obtained it dishonorably
The man who respects it has earned it rightfully

Run for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil
That sentence is the leper's bell of an approaching looter
If men abandon money, their only substitute is the muzzle of a gun
When force is the standard, the murderer wins over the pickpocket
And then society vanishes, in a spread of ruins and slaughter

When in order to produce,
You need permission from men who produce nothing,
Know that your society is doomed
Whenever destroyers appear among men,
They start by destroying money
For money is man's protection
And the base of moral existence
Money is the base of moral existence

When you have made evil
The means of survival
Do not expect men to remain good
Do not expect them to produce
When production is punished and looting rewarded
Do not ask, who is destroying the world?
You are.

“What is going to happen to the world? Just exactly what it deserves.”