Quotes About Avarice

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Lust is to the other passions what the nervous fluid is to life it supports them all, lends strength to them all ambition, cruelty, avarice, revenge, are all founded on lust.

Weapons are like money; no one knows the meaning of enough.

Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice.

Los humanos son una especie arrogante, que se define por su violencia y su avaricia. No se les ha ocurrido otra cosa que conducir a su propio planeta, el único al que ahora mismo tienen acceso, por el camino de la destrucción. Han creado un mundo de divisiones y categorías, y son incapaces de ver las similitudes entre ellos mismos.

Avarice is the sphincter of the heart.

There was nothing wrong with progress, with the evolution of a society, with developments in technology, but when avarice directed progress, the natural order of a community was destroyed.

He didn't know the first thing about greed. He thought it was all about money.

La Boétie, Anti-Dictator, pp. 43–44. Whenever a ruler makes himself dictator . . . all those who are corrupted by burning ambition or extraordinary avarice, these gather around him and support him in order to have a share in the booty and to constitute themselves petty chiefs under the big tyrant. 11

Of mankind we may say in general they are fickle, hypocritical, and greedy of gain.

Wanting everything is the thing that eventually tears you apart.

avaricia, la cual, como es sabido, tiene hambre de lobo: cuanto más devora, menos se sacia.

A science which is postulated on the assumption that human beings are avaricious through all eternity is utterly devoid of point (whether in problems of distribution or any other aspect) to a person who is not avaricious.

I am blessed to live in a democracy, not a totalitarian state. But the democracy I cherish is constantly threatened by a brand of politics that clothes avarice and the arrogance of power in patriotic and religious garb.

Nothin' plugs a man's ears like money.

Avarice is fear sheathed in gold.

Radix omnium malorum est cupiditas.

There's something impoverished in those who want to really have everything.

He wanted everything there was to have, and more than that.