Excess of wealth is cause of covetousness.

“When you see injustice among the nations, you will find out that the root cause is covetousness.”

— Sunday Adelaja

For there is no defense for a man who, in the excess of his wealth, has kicked the great altar of Justice out of…

— Aeschylus

“In the vast library of socialist theory, and in all of Marx’s compendious works, there is not a chapter devoted to the creation of…

— David Horowitz

The liberal reward of labour, therefore, as it is the affect of increasing wealth, so it is the cause of increasing population. To complain…

— Adam Smith

Don't accumulate if you do not need. The excess of wealth in your hands is for the society, and you are the trustee for…

— Mahavira

If we are to say no to covetousness, we must learn to say yes to contentment. This involves learning to be content with what…

— Alistair Begg

Other passions have objects to flatter them, and seem to content and satisfy them for a while; there is power in ambition, pleasure in…

— Michel de Montaigne

Covetousness, anger and foolishness are things to sort out well. When bad things happen in the world, if you look at them comparatively, they…

— Yamamoto Tsunetomo

The evils of the body are murder, theft, and adultery; of the tongue, lying, slander, abuse and idle talk; of the mind, covetousness, hatred…

— Gautama Buddha

It was with good reason that God commanded through Moses that the vineyard and harvest were not to be gleaned to the last grape…

— Martin Luther

I have heard thousands of confessions, but never one of covetousness.

— Francis Xavier

There are four Powers: memory and intellect, desire and covetousness. The two first are mental and the others sensual. The three senses: sight, hearing…

— Leonardo da Vinci

Perfect love is to feeling what perfect white is to color. Many think that white is the absence of color. It is not. It…

— Anonymous

Let us avoid debt as we would avoid a plague...Let every head of every household see to it that he has on hand enough…

— J. Reuben Clark

There are three things against which the wise man guards: lust when young, quarrels when strong, and covetousness when old.

— Confucius