The terrible, cold, cruel part is Wall Street. Rivers of gold flow there from all over the earth, and death comes with… — Federico Garcia Lorca Copy Share Image
Complexity begets ambiguity, which yields in all ways to prejudice and avarice. Complication does not so much defeat Men as arm them… — R. Scott Bakker Copy Share Image
Poverty wants some things, Luxury many things, Avarice all things — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
If we lived in a State where virtue was profitable, common sense would make us good, and greed would make us saintly.… — Robert Bolt Copy Share Image
Jesus Christ and all the writers of the New Testament call us to break free of mammon lust and live in joyous… — Richard J. Foster Copy Share Image
In a culture that relentlessly promotes avarice and excess as the good life, a person happy doing his own work is usually… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
Gaming is the child of avarice, but the parent of prodigality. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Pride, envy, avarice - these are the sparks have set on fire the hearts of all men. — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
Greed has poisoned men's souls, has barricaded the world with hate; has goose-stepped us into misery and bloodshed. — Charlie Chaplin Copy Share Image
Youth enters the world with very happy prejudices in her own favor. She imagines herself not only certain of accomplishing every adventure,… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I wish to become rich, so that I can instruct the people and glorify honest poverty a little, like those kind hearted,… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Avarice is the most oppose of all characters to that of God Almighty, whose alone it is to give and not receive. — William Shenstone Copy Share Image
It is the child of avarice, the brother of iniquity, and the father of mischief. — George Washington Copy Share Image
Avarice is to the intellect what sensuality is to the morals. — Anna Brownell Jameson Copy Share Image
It is surely very narrow policy that supposes money to be the chief good. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Some men are called sagacious, merely on account of their avarice; whereas a child can clench its fist the moment it is… — William Shenstone Copy Share Image
Avarice has ruined more men than prodigality, and the blindest thoughtlessness of expenditure has not destroyed so many fortunes as the calculating… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
What is at the heart of all national problems? It is that we have seen the hand of material interest sometimes about… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
“From the subtle afflictions caused by love of status is seeking after and aspiring positions of authority – this is something whose… — Ibn Rajab The Evil of Craving for Wealth and Status Copy Share Image
“I do not see how it is possible for a man to die worth fifty million of dollars, or ten million of… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
By avarice and selfishness, and a groveling habit, from which none of us is free, of regarding the soil as property, or… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Where there is Love and Wisdom, there is neither Fear nor Ignorance. Where there is Patience and Humility, there is neither Anger… — Francis of Assisi Copy Share Image
Those whose days are consumed in the low pursuits of avarice, or the gaudy frivolties of fashion, unobservant of nature's lovelinessof demarcation,… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
