Avarice Quote by Emily Bronte

People who are greedy have extraordinary capacities for waste-they must, they take in too much.

— Norman Mailer

Within a month of intense life in the mountains is going through so much, what used to be a period of several years; This…

— Jerzy Kukuczka

Poor people can be greedy, too. It's just that they don't have any material resources. We need shaping of the souls as well as…

— Cornel West

As long as the arabs fight tribe against tribe, so long will they be a little people, a silly people, greedy, barbarous and cruel.

— T. E. Lawrence

“Well first of all, tell me: Is there some society you know that doesn’t run on greed? You think Russia doesn’t run on greed?…

— Milton Friedman

“He had thought himself, so long as nobody knew, the most disinterested person in the world, carrying his concentrated burden, his perpetual suspense, ever…

— Henry James

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— Alek Wek

“we may see another speculative buildup followed by another crash, and so on until God makes people less greedy.”

— John Brooks

It's true that private enterprise is extremely flexible, But its only good within very narrow limits. If private enterprise isn't held in an iron…

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

There are people who are very greedy, there are people who don't care. But in my opinion, that is a minority. The majority of…

— Prem Rawat

The bottom line for most people who are normal is their need for other people. Even the greedy ones have this need - as…

— Martha Stout

Of all the vices, avarice is the most generally detested; it is the effect of an avidity common to all men; it is because…

— Claude Adrien Helvetius