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Ayn Rand

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.

Ayn Rand

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The quote warns that anyone who claims money itself is bad is signaling their intent to take wealth from others unjustly. It compares such a person to a leper ringing a bell, announcing their harmful presence and the threat they pose.

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