Top 1200 Avarice Greed Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

Atlantis was destroyed by the greed of its inhabitants.

The invention of money opened a new field to human avarice by giving rise to usury and the practice of lending money at interest while the owner passes a life of idleness.

The world is fed by greed.

Giving is a proof that you have conquered greed.

God uses lust to impel men to marry, ambition to office, avarice to earning, and fear to faith. God led me like an old blind goat.

It is only luxury and avarice that make poverty grievous to us; for it is a very small matter that does our business, and when we have provided against cold, hunger, and thirst, all the rest is but vanity and excess.

Greed puts out the sun.

Fraud is the daughter of greed.

Be fearful when there is greed and be greedy when there is fear.

Greed is really the religion of vulgarity.

For greed all nature is too little.

Greed is the worst thing.

Greed is too flimsy to flawed

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.

At length corruption, like a general flood (So long by watchful ministers withstood), Shall deluge all; and avarice, creeping on, Spread like a low-born mist, and blot the sun.

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.

It is greed to do all the talking but not to want to listen at all.

The greed for fruit misses the flower.

The twin killers of success are impatience and greed.

Those whose days are consumed in the low pursuits of avarice, or the gaudy frivolties of fashion, unobservant of nature's lovelinessof demarcation, nor on which side thereof an intermediate form should lie.

Greed's worst point is its ingratitude.

Greed is costly. Assembled fortunes are lost.

Greed is permanent slavery

Whatever be the motives which induce men to write,--whether avarice or fame,--the country becomes more wise and happy in which they most serve for instructors.

Greed is the assumption that it is all for my consumption.

Avarice often produces opposite results: there are an infinite number of persons who sacrifice their property to doubtful and distant expectations; others mistake great future advantages for small present interests.

Don’t let the dark clouds of greed confuse you

We took advantage of [the Indians'] ignorance and inexperience to incline them the more easily toward treachery, lewdness, avarice, and every sort of inhumanity and cruelty, after the example and pattern of our ways.

In youth, we clothe ourselves with rainbows, with hope & love, & go as brave as the zodiack. In age we put out another sort of perspiration; gout, fever, rheumatism, caprice, doubt, fretting, and avarice.

Greed, for lack of a better word, is good.

It is practically an axiom in psychiatry that precocious intellect combined with physical weakness can give rise to many unpleasant character traits - avarice, delusions of grandeur , and obsessive masturbation, to name just a few.

The avarice of mankind is insatiable; at one time two obols was pay enough; but now, when this sum has become customary, men always want more and more without end.

I have a greed to work with good directors.

It means zero to be against greed.

Greed, desire, ambition, jealousy, possessiveness, domination - you have to watch everything. And they are all interconnected, remember. If greed disappears, then anger will disappear. If anger disappears, jealousy will disappear. If jealousy disappears, violence will disappear. If violence disappears, possessiveness will disappear. They are all intertwined. In fact, they are spokes of the same wheel, and the hub that supports them all is the ego. So watch the ways of the ego.

The currency of real networking is not greed but generosity.

Greed has poisoned men's souls.

What is infinite? The universe and the greed of men.

Worry, hate, fear-together with their offshoots: anxiety, bitterness, impatience, avarice, unkindness, judgmentalness, and condemnation-all attack the body at the cellular level. It is impossible to have a healthy body under these conditions.

For greed, all nature is too little.

Some men make fortunes, but not to enjoy them for, blinded by avarice, they live to make fortunes.

If you do good because you expect to be rewarded, it is greed.

Fear and greed tend to affect one's judgement.

Is it not enough that we are torn from our country and friends, to toil for your luxury and lust of gain? Must every tender feeling be likewise sacrificed to your avarice?

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.

Greed can overtake smart.

What kind of society isn't structured on greed?

It’s not greed that drives the world, but envy.

Where today are the Pequot? Where are the Narragansett, the Mohican, the Pcanet, and other powerful tribes of our people? They have vanished before the avarice and oppression of the white man, as snow before the summer sun.

Most of the trades, professions, and ways of living among mankind, take their original either from the love of the pleasure, or the fear of want. The former, when it becomes too violent, degenerates into luxury, and the latter into avarice.

Private fortunes, in the present state of our circulation, are at the mercy of those self-created money lenders, and are prostrated by the floods of nominal money with which their avarice deluges us.

Greed is so destructive. It destroys everything.

Greed is merely a species of nearsightedness.

Greed is normally balanced by fear.

The lust of avarice as so totally seized upon mankind that their wealth seems rather to possess them than they possess their wealth.

Oppression is often the consequence, but seldom or never the means of riches; and tho' avarice will preserve a man from being necessitously poor, it generally makes him too timorous to be wealthy.

Poverty wants some things, Luxury many things, Avarice all things

Ennui has made more gamblers than avarice, more drunkards than thirst, and perhaps as many suicides as despair.

Avarice misapprehends itself almost always. There is no passion which more often will miss its aim, nor upon which the present has so much influence to the prejudice of the future.

Study rather to fill your mind than your coffers; knowing that gold and silver were originally mingled with dirt, until avarice or ambition parted them.