Quotes About Avarice

All social rules and all relations between individuals are eroded by a cash economy, avarice drags Pluto himself out of the bowels of the earth.

There is no evil that does not promise inducements. Avarice promises money; luxury, a varied assortment of pleasures; ambition, a purple robe and applause. Vices tempt you by the rewards they offer.

Money is not nice. Money got no friends but more money.

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

Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works. Greed clarifies and cuts through to the essence of the evolutionary spirit.

Prosperity makes few friends.

Every man now worships gold, all other reverence being done away.

Money goes where money is, money yearns where money is.

When money is unreasonably coveted, it is a disease of the mind which is called avarice.

Not to be avaricious is money; not to be fond of buying is a revenue; but to be content with our own is the greatest and most certain wealth of all.

Love of money is the mother-city (metropolis) of all evils.

In matters of money there's no such thing as enough.

Money!It's all about money!It's all it ever is these days!

There is nothing around me but money, money, money.

If you would abolish covetousness, you must abolish its mother, profusion.

Those who desire to become rich, desire it at once.

Five enemies of peace inhabit with us - avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride; if these were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace.

Avarice seems to have so pervaded our vital principles as to battle all hopes of a remedy but for peace and plenty.

Mr. Greed, why do you have to own everything that you see?

Enough is never enough.

Nature punishes gluttony, not avarice or hate.

Avarice, the spur of industry.

Avarice, the spur of industry, is so obstinate a passion, and works its way through so many real dangers and difficulties, that it is not likely to be scared by an imaginary danger, which is so small, that it scarcely admits of calculation. Commerce, therefore, in my opinion, is apt to decay in absolute governments, not because it is there less secure, but because it is less honourable.

Ambition is but avarice on stilts, and masked. God sometimes sends a famine, sometimes a pestilence, and sometimes a hero, for the chastisement of mankind; none of them surely for our admiration.