Avarice Quotes

161 Avarice quotes by 121 unique authors

Poverty wants much; but avarice, everything. — Publilius Syrus
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
It is by human avarice or human stupidity, not by the churlishness of nature, that we have poverty and overwork. — C.S. Lewis
God uses lust to impel men to marry, ambition to office, avarice to earning, and fear to faith. God led me like an old blind… — Martin Luther
Children are taught to fear and obey; the avarice, pride, or timidity of parents teaches children economy, arrogance, or submission. They are also encouraged to… — Luc de Clapiers
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… — Frederick Buechner
Since the State thrives on what it expropriates, the general decline in production that it induces by its avarice foretells its own doom. Its source… — Frank Chodorov
Nobody can fight properly and boldly for the faith if he clings to a fear of being stripped of earthly possessions. — Peter Damian
Avarice is always poor. — Samuel Johnson
Avarice seems to have so pervaded our vital principles as to battle all hopes of a remedy but for peace and plenty. — Unknown Author
Yet avarice is numbered among the sins, but stupidity omitted. — EB Farnum
Poverty wants some things, Luxury many things, Avarice all things — Benjamin Franklin
By avarice and selfishness, and a groveling habit, from which none of us is free, of regarding the soil as property, or the means of… — Henry David Thoreau
In our own time the whole of Greece has been subject to a low birth rate and a general decrease of the population, owing to… — Polybius
When virtue is banished, ambition invades the minds of those who are disposed to receive it, and avarice possesses the whole community. The objects of… — Thomas Jefferson
The Devil endeavours by every means to keep men in error, in the enticement of the passions, in darkness of mind and heart; in pride,… — John of Kronstadt
Have we come all this way, I wondered, only to be dismantled by our own technologies, to be betrayed by political connivance or the impersonal… — Barry Lopez
The decay of old aristocratic prejudices against greedy speculation, the undermining of orthodox Christian faith (which forbids avarice)... the debauching of agriculture to a gross… — Russell Kirk
Five great enemies of peace inhabit us: avarice, ambition, envy, anger and pride. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
We are not here to sell a parcel of boilers and vats, but the potentiality of growing rich beyond the dreams of avarice. — Samuel Johnson
Creating a life that reflects your values and satisfies your soul is a rare achievement. In a culture that relentlessly promotes avarice and excess as… — Bill Watterson
Gluttony should be destroyed by self-control; unchastity by desire for God and longing for the blessings held in store; avarice by compassion for the poor;… — John of Damascus
For all men live by truth, and stand in need of expression. In love, in art, in avarice, in politics, in labor, in games, we… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Avarice and luxury, those evils which have been the ruin of every great state. — Unknown Author
The Swamp of Despond is that place set before the narrow gate where true and false pilgrims alike are assaulted by their own internal corruption… — John Bunyan

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