Quotes About Greed

if children could be cloistered with other children, stripped of responsibility and independence, encouraged to develop only the trivializing emotions of greed, envy, jealousy, and fear, they would grow older but never truly grow up.

They are fools that fear to lose their wealth by giving, but fear not to lose themselves by keeping it.

Class is material consumed.

There's even a name for the people who have the most stuff. They're called hoarders. Back in the day they were just called grandmothers.

The getting of treasures by a lying tongue is a vanity tossed to and fro of them that seek death.

The love of money is the root of all evil. It blinds the vision and prevents people from discerning their obligations to God or to their neighbors.—

El que teme verdaderamente a Dios preferirá trabajar noche y día y comer su pan en la pobreza antes que satisfacer un afán de ganancias que oprimiría a la viuda y a los huérfanos, o despojaría al extraño de su derecho

Carter found particularly noxious "a mistaken idea of freedom [as] the right to grasp for ourselves some advantage over others.

Idolatry is always subject to the law of diminishing returns.

There are two loves that have been deeply rooted in the human race for a long time now: love for dominating everyone, and love for possessing everyone's wealth. If the reins are let out on the first type of love, it rushes on until it wants to be the God of all heaven. If the reins are let out on the second type of love, it rushes on until it wants to be the God of the whole world. All other forms of love for evil are ranked below these two and serve as their army.

Avarice is reprehensible acquisitiveness, excessive and insatiable desire to acquire or possess more wealth, riches or material gain than one needs or deserves. In other words, avarice is the highest level of greed or greediness. Now listen up, wealth or success is good and worthwhile too. But, you should not quest for it desperately, fraudulently or dubiously. Besides that, genuine wealth or success is meant to be acquired or achieved overtime and not at all overnight. -Emeasoba George

The poor, by thinking unceasingly of money, reach the point of losing the spiritual advantages of non-possession, thereby sinking as low as the rich.

My greed for agonies has made me die so many times that it strikes me as indecent to keep on abusing a corpse from which I can get nothing more.

We cherish our anathemas, greedy for what pulverizes us; not for anything would we renounce our own nightmare to which we have assigned as many capital letters as we have known illusions. These illusions have been discredited, like the capital letters, but the nightmare remains, decapitated and naked, and we continue to love it precisely because it is ours and because we do not see what to replace it by.

My friends are my estate. Forgive me then the avarice to hoard them

ta v?n làm th?? Có bao gi? chúng ta ??t câu h?i, t?i sao chúng ta l?i làm th? không? Lòng ta còn ham ti?n b?c, danh v?ng, ??a v?, s?c kh?e, và ch? c?u bình an cho chính mình thôi, nên ch?ng bao gi? th?a mãn.

Money without honor is a disease

At all hours the financier is trampling on the living, the attorney on the dead, the pleader on the conscience. Forced to be speaking without a rest, they all substitute words for ideas, phrases for feelings, and their soul becomes a larynx.

Vanity is only to be satisfied by gold in floods.

I mean, I do think at a certain point you've made enough money.

Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. And it will leave you unfulfilled.

Try adding contemplation to your actions. When you are sweeping, you can be removing anger or fear. When you are mowing, you can be cutting down desire and greed.

Anyone with more than 365 pair of shoes is a pig.

Events in his own past he never thought of as evil but rather as mistaken, immensely regrettable, brought about by fear and greed.