Avarice Greed Quotes

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

  Erich Fromm

  Effort, Greed, Needs

  Erich Fromm (2013). “Escape from Freedom”, p.121, Open Road Media

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• Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Nature

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

  Benjamin Franklin

  Luxury, Want, Poverty

  Benjamin Franklin (2012). “Wit and Wisdom from Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.17, Courier Corporation

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• Greed is a fat demon with a small mouth and whatever you feed it is never enough.

  Janwillem van de Wetering

  Greed, Mouths, Demon

  Janwillem Van De Wetering (2003). “Just a Corpse at Twilight”, p.118, Soho Press

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• There is no such thing as material covetousness. All covetousness is spiritual. ...Any so-called material thing that you want is merely a symbol: you want it not for itself, but because it will content your spirit for the moment.

  Mark Twain

  Spiritual, Greed, Want

  Mark Twain (1973). “What Is Man? and Other Philosophical Writings”, p.202, Univ of California Press

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• The lack of money is the root of all evil.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Bible, Sarcastic

  Mark Twain, John Sutton Tuckey (1980). “The Devil's Race-track: Mark Twain's Great Dark Writings : the Best from Which was the Dream? and Fables of Man”, p.337, Univ of California Press

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  He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.

  Socrates

  Inspirational, Life, Happiness

  Socrates, Plato, Aristotle (1967). “Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study”

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• For avarice begins where poverty ends.

  Honore de Balzac

  Poverty, Ends, Avarice

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

  Malcolm X

  Hope, Greed, Political

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• Nothing makes us more vulnerable than loneliness except greed.

  Thomas Harris

  Lonely, Loneliness, Being Alone

  Thomas Harris (2009). “The Silence of the Lambs”, p.319, Macmillan

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• Pride, envy, avarice - these are the sparks have set on fire the hearts of all men.

  Dante Alighieri

  Heart, Pride, Men

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• Poverty wants much; but avarice, everything.

  Publilius Syrus

  Greed, Want, Poverty

  "Maxims". 441,

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• Avarice is as destitute of what it has, as poverty of what it has not.

  Publilius Syrus

  Christian, Greed, Poverty

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• In plain Truth, it is no Want, but rather Abundance that creates Avarice.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Want, Abundance, Avarice

  "The Essays of Michael Seigneur de Montaigne".

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• Avarice has ruined more souls than extravagance.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Greed, Soul, Extravagance

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• Avarice is the vice of declining years.

  George Bancroft

  Years, Greed, Vices

  George Bancroft (1845). “History of the United States: From the Discovery of the American Continent, to the End of the Late War”, p.130

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

  Pliny the Elder

  Lust, Wealth, Prosperity

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

  Lord Byron

  Thinking, Greed, Vices

  'Don Juan' (1819-24) canto 1, st. 216

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• 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

  Samuel Johnson

  Wall, Passion, Ambition

  Samuel Johnson, Elizabeth Carter, Samuel Richardson, Catherine Talbot (1825). “The Rambler: A Periodical Paper, Published in 1750, 1751, 1752”, p.262

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• Avarice, greed, concupiscence and so forth are all based on the mathematical truism that the more you get, the more you have. The remark of that it is more blessed to give than to receive is based on the human truth that the more you give away in love, the more you are. It is not just for the sake of other people that tells us to give rather than get, but for our own sakes too.

  Frederick Buechner

  Blessed, People, Giving

  FaceBook post by Frederick Buechner from Mar 27, 2014

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• 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.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Years, Liberty, Littles

  John Maynard Keynes (1932). “Essays in persuasion”

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• Pride, avarice, and envy are in every home.

  Thornton Wilder

  Home, Pride, Envy

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• Prudery is a kind of avarice, the worst of all.

  Stendhal

  Morality, Kind, Worst

  Stendhal (1950*). “Stendhal on Love”

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

  Horace

  Wall, Greed, Want

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

  Michael Douglas

  Movie, Great Year, Greed

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