Quotes about Greed

“Big mouthfuls often choke.”

“Avarice, the spur of industry.”

“God forgives the sin of gluttony.”

“For greed all nature is too little.”

“Avarice is the sphincter of the heart.”

“Avarice is the vice of declining years.”

“The point is that you can't be too greedy.”

“Avarice has ruined more souls than extravagance.”

“Greed, like the love of comfort, is a kind of fear.”

“Satiety is a mongrel that barks at the heels of plenty.”

“You show me a capitalist, and I'll show you a bloodsucker.”

“To hazard much to get much has more of avarice than wisdom.”

“It is not the want, but rather abundance that creates avarice.”

“If your desires be endless, your cares and fears will be so too.”

“So for a good old-gentlemanly vice, I think I must take up with avarice.”

“The avarice person is ever in want; let your desired aim have a fixed limit.”

“Let me tell you, Cassius, you yourself are much condemned to have an itching palm.”

“Men hate the individual whom they call avaricious only because nothing can be gained from him.”

“Nothing retains less of desire in art, in science, than this will to industry, booty, possession.”

“Wealth is like sea-water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become; and the same is true of fame.”

“The average man does not know what to do with this life, yet wants another one which will last forever.”

“He who distinguishes the true savor of his food can never be a glutton; he who does not cannot be otherwise.”

“Greed is all right, by the way I think greed is healthy. You can be greedy and still feel good about yourself.”

“Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”