Avarice Quote by Samuel Johnson Download Open image “It is surely very narrow policy that supposes money to be the chief good.” — Samuel Johnson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Avarice Chiefs Money Policy
And is it not the chief good of money, the being free from the need of thinking of it? — Elizabeth Barrett Browning Copy Share Image
It's disingenuous to... pretend the sources of our money don't impact the policy we write - you just can't serve two masters. — Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Copy Share Image
And if we make the process political, if we start to make it personal, we're actually going to frustrate good public policy, in terms… — Michael Chertoff Copy Share Image
Power is concentrated. The general policy is exactly the way that Adam Smith described it: it's designed for the benefit of its principal architects,… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Money has always been framed as a public good, one that must be stewarded by governments, when in fact, it is a private enterprise… — Meltem Demirors Copy Share Image
There's huge amounts of good that can be done by a government that works constructively... versus a zero-sum vision of government. — Sam Bankman-Fried Copy Share Image
I believe that if you have good economic policies, you're naturally going to have a strong dollar. — Scott Bessent Copy Share Image
I think a strong dollar is the result of policies, but I don't think the strong dollar is in and of itself a policy. — Carly Fiorina Copy Share Image
Certainly the policy is right and good politics usually follow good policy. — Jeff Flake Copy Share Image
It is bad policy to regulate everything... where things may better regulate themselves and can be better promoted by private exertions; but it is… — Friedrich List Copy Share Image
The way to have good and safe government is not to trust it all to one, but to divide it among the many, distributing… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The size of a man's understanding might always be justly measured by his mirth. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Pound St. Paul's Church into atoms, and consider any single atom; it is to be sure, good for nothing; but put all these atoms… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
If our aim is to praise, we should forget to criticize; if our aim is to criticize, we should remember to praise — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
It is as foolish to make experiments upon the constancy of a friend, as upon the chastity of a wife. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The basis of all excellence is truth: he that professes love ought to feel its power. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“The composition of Shakespeare is a forest, in which oaks extend in the air, interspersed sometimes with weeds and brambles, and sometimes giving shelting… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“The cherubim were never intended as an object of worship, because they were only the appendices to another thing. But a thing is then… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
In our own time the whole of Greece has been subject to a low birth rate and a general decrease of the population, owing… — Polybius Copy Share Image
avarice breeds envy, a worm that is always gnawing, letting the avaricious enjoy neither their own nor anyone else's good. — St. Catherine of Siena Copy Share Image
Where today are the Pequot? Where are the Narragansett, the Mohican, the Pcanet, and other powerful tribes of our people? They have vanished before… — Tecumseh Copy Share Image
The corruption of the age is made up by the particular contribution of every individual man; some contribute treachery, others injustice, atheism, tyranny, avarice,… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Five enemies of peace inhabit with us - avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride; if these were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy… — Petrarch Copy Share Image
'Maneater' is about N.Y.C. in the '80s. It's about greed, avarice, and spoiled riches. — John Oates Copy Share Image
A woman's whole life is a history of the affections. The heart is her world: it is there her ambition strives for empire; it… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
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… — John of Damascus Copy Share Image
Riches with their wicked inducements increase; nevertheless, avarice is never satisfied. — Horace Copy Share Image
