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Quotes about greed
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Satiety is a mongrel that barks at the heels of plenty. (Douglas Michael)
Avarice is the vice of declining years. (Douglas Michael)
Greed is all right, by the way I think greed is healthy. You can be greedy and still feel good about yourself. (Douglas Michael)
Nothing retains less of desire in art, in science, than this will to industry, booty, possession. (Douglas Michael)
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Avarice has ruined more souls than extravagance. (Douglas Michael)
Greed, like the love of comfort, is a kind of fear. (Douglas Michael)
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. (Douglas Michael)
The average man does not know what to do with this life, yet wants another one which will last forever. (Douglas Michael)
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. (Douglas Michael)
Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction. (Douglas Michael)
If your desires be endless, your cares and fears will be so too. (Douglas Michael)
Avarice is the sphincter of the heart. (Douglas Michael)
The avarice person is ever in want; let your desired aim have a fixed limit. (Douglas Michael)
Avarice, the spur of industry. (Douglas Michael)
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. (Douglas Michael)
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. (Douglas Michael)
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. (Douglas Michael)
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. (Douglas Michael)
It is not the want, but rather abundance that creates avarice. (Douglas Michael)
To hazard much to get much has more of avarice than wisdom. (Douglas Michael)
God forgives the sin of gluttony. (Douglas Michael)
Big mouthfuls often choke. (Douglas Michael)
Wealth is like sea-water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become; and the same is true of fame. (Douglas Michael)
For greed all nature is too little. (Douglas Michael)
Let me tell you, Cassius, you yourself are much condemned to have an itching palm. (Douglas Michael)
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