Greed Quotes
Satiety is a mongrel that barks at the heels of plenty.Greed
Antrim, Minna
1861-18 American Epigrammist
Avarice is the vice of declining years.
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Bancroft, George
1800-1891 American Historian
Greed is all right, by the way I think greed is healthy. You can be greedy and still feel good about yourself.
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Boesky, Ivan F.
Nothing retains less of desire in art, in science, than this will to industry, booty, possession.
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Breton, Andre
1989-1966 French Surrealist
So for a good old-gentlemanly vice, I think I must take up with avarice.
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Byron, Lord
1788-1824 British Poet
I have news for the forces of greed and the defenders of the status quo; your time has come and gone. It s time for change in America.
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Clinton, Bill
1946 Forty-second President of the USA
Avarice has ruined more souls than extravagance.
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Colton, Charles Caleb
1780-1832 British Sportsman Writer
Greed, like the love of comfort, is a kind of fear.
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Connolly, Cyril
1903-1974 British Critic
From top to bottom of the ladder, greed is aroused without knowing where to find ultimate foothold. Nothing can calm it, since its goal is far beyond all it can attain. Reality seems valueless by comparison with the dreams of fevered imaginations; reality is therefore abandoned.
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Durkheim, Emile
1858-1917 French Sociologist
The average man does not know what to do with this life, yet wants another one which will last forever.
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France, Anatole
1844-1924 French Writer
The problem of social organization is how to set up an arrangement under which greed will do the least harm, capitalism is that kind of a system.
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Friedman, Milton
1912 American Economist
Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction.
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Fromm, Erich
1900-1980 American Psychologist
If your desires be endless, your cares and fears will be so too.
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Fuller, Thomas
1608-1661 British Clergyman Author
Avarice is the sphincter of the heart.
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Green, Matthew
The avarice person is ever in want; let your desired aim have a fixed limit.
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Horace
BC 65-8 Italian Poet
Avarice, the spur of industry.
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Hume, David
1711-1776 Scottish Philosopher Historian
Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of the rich on the poor.
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Jefferson, Thomas
1743-1826 Third President of the USA
Avarice is generally the last passion of those lives of which the first part has been squandered in pleasure, and the second devoted to ambition. He that sinks under the fatigue of getting wealth, lulls his age with the milder business of saving it.
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Johnson, Samuel
1709-1784 British Author
For at least another hundred years we must pretend to ourselves and to every one that fair is foul and foul is fair; for foul is useful and fair is not. Avarice and usury and precaution must be our gods for a little longer still.
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Keynes, John Maynard
1883-1946 British Economist
The wish to acquire more is admittedly a very natural and common thing; and when men succeed in this they are always praised rather than condemned. But when they lack the ability to do so and yet want to acquire more at all costs, they deserve condemnation for their mistakes.
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Machiavelli, Niccolo
1469-1527 Italian Author Statesman
You show me a capitalist, and I ll show you a bloodsucker.
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Malcolm X
1925-1965 American Black Leader Activist
It is not the want, but rather abundance that creates avarice.
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Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De
1533-1592 French Philosopher Essayist
To hazard much to get much has more of avarice than wisdom.
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Penn, William
1644-1718 British Religious Leader Founder of Pennsylvania
God forgives the sin of gluttony.
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Proverb, Catalan
Big mouthfuls often choke.
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Proverb, Italian
Sayings of Italian Origin
Wealth is like sea-water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become; and the same is true of fame.
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Schopenhauer, Arthur
1788-1860 German Philosopher
For greed all nature is too little.
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Seneca
4 BC – 65 AD Spanish-born Roman Statesman philosopher
Let me tell you, Cassius, you yourself are much condemned to have an itching palm.
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Shakespeare, William
1564-1616 British Poet Playwright Actor
Wars and revolutions and battles are due simply and solely to the body and its desires. All wars are undertaken for the acquisition of wealth; and the reason why we have to acquire wealth is the body, because we are slaves in its service.
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Socrates
BC 469-399 Greek Philosopher of Athens
He who distinguishes the true savor of his food can never be a glutton; he who does not cannot be otherwise.
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Thoreau, Henry David
1817-1862 American Essayist Poet Naturalist
It is of the nobility of man s soul that he is insatiable: for he hath a benefactor so prone to give, that he delighteth in us for asking. Do not your inclinations tell you that the WORLD is yours? Do you not covet all? Do you not long to have it; to enjoy it; to overcome it? To what end do men gather riches, but to multiply more? Do they not like Pyrrhus the King of Epire, add house to house and lands to lands, that they may get it all?
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Traherne, Thomas
1636-1674 British Clergyman Poet Mystic
The point is that you can t be too greedy.
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Trump, Donald
1946 American Businessman
Men hate the individual whom they call avaricious only because nothing can be gained from him.
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Voltaire
1694-1778 French Historian Writer