Cases Quote by William Graham Sumner

In the long run men inevitably become the victims of their wealth. They adapt their lives and habits to their money, not their money…

— Herbert Croly

Yes the truth is that men's ambition and their desire to make money are among the most frequent causes of deliberate acts of injustice.

— Aristotle

Some men make money not for the sake of living, but ache In the blindness of greed and live just for their fortune's sake.

— Juvenal

There are men so incorrigibly lazy that no inducement that you can offer will tempt them to work; so eaten up by vice that…

— William Booth

But men are so full of greed today, they'll sell anything for a little piece of money.

— Little Richard

Even the humblest men have a strange reason behind greed. Every man thinks money solves problems - and every man thinks not just of…

— Siddharth Katragadda

“Yes! And isn't that the root of every despicable action? Not selfishness, but precisely the absence of a self. Look at them. The man…

— Ayn Rand

Greed is but a word jealous men inflict upon the ambitious.

— Marcus Licinius Crassus

There are men so incorrigibly lazy that no inducement that you can offer will tempt them to work; so eaten up by vice that…

— William Booth

Men are more often bribed by their loyalties and ambitions than by money.

— Anonymous

Certain rich men, whose lives are evil and corrupt, are the representatives of predatory wealth accumulated by all forms of inequity, from the oppression…

— Theodore Roosevelt

But though Usury is in itself immoral, and justly condemned by every ethical code, its chief and worst defect in the particular case we…

— Hilaire Belloc