Quotes About Avarice

You're never rich enough if you can be richer.

with lawyers I always assume that they came by their wealth and position through avarice and by means nefarious:

The community of today is the planet, not the bounded nation…patterns of coordinated agression can only break it into factions". We are in a time of "rationalized avarice and sanctified misunderstanding." Joseph Campbell, 1949

There are few retreats, that can escape the penetrating eye of avarice.

Nor does their understanding, which is blinded and bent only on avarice, perceive that this very thing might be more safely done by means of science.

Complexity begets ambiguity, which yields in all ways to prejudice and avarice. Complication does not so much defeat Men as arm them with fancy.

For all men live by truth and stand in need of expression. In love, in art, in avarice, in politics, in labor, in games, we study to utter our painful secret. The man is only half himself, the other half is his expression.

Envy and Arrogance and Avarice Are the three sparks that have all hearts enkindled.

Avarice, envy, pride,Three fatal sparks, have set the hearts of allOn Fire.

That is why one of Rich's most powerful songs, and one he enjoyed singing in concert more than any other, is "Greed.

Unless we do change our whole way of thought about work, I do not think we shall ever escape from the appalling squirrel cage of economic confusion in which we have been madly turning for the last three centuries or so, the cage in which we landed ourselves by acquiescing in a social system based upon Envy and Avarice.

I am Michael, the sword of God. The edge is turned toward thee: not for those sins whereof thou dost repent, lust, greed, wrath, avarice, the faults of flesh sloughed off with the flesh, but that which feeds the soul, the sin that is so much a part of thee thou know'st it not for sin.

If avarice is the sin of the haves against the have-nots, envy is the sin of the have-nots against the haves. If we want to see what they look like on a big scale, we may say that avarice has been the sin of the Anglo-Saxon democracies, and envy the sin of Germany. Both are cruel—the one with a heavy, complacent, and bloodless cruelty; the other with a violent, calculated, and savage cruelty. But Germany only displays in accentuated form an evil of which we have plenty at home.

Zaphod's eyes sparkled with something that may or may not have been avarice as he passed over them. In fact it's best to be clear on this point—avarice is definitely what it was.

Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing.

He who loves the bristle of bayonets only sees in the glitter what beforehand he feels in his heart. It is avarice and hatred; it is that quivering lip, that cold, hating eye, which built magazines and powder-houses.

You can satiate a Man's hunger but never his greed!

Greed and selfishness do seem to be central motivators of mankind.

You despise a man for avarice; but you do not hate him.

Some men are called sagacious, merely on account of their avarice; whereas a child can clench its fist the moment it is born.

In my opinion, every rich man is a miser.

Avarice is a cursed vice: offer a man enough gold, and he will part with his own small hoard of food, however great his hunger.

The poor man is he who, having much, craves for more.

Riches too increase, and the maddening craving for gold, So that men ever seek for more, that they may have the most.