Quotes about Greed

Genuflection before the idol or the dollar destroys the muscles which walk and the will that moves.

There is M. Geborand purchasing paradise for a sou.

This town has so many blessings from God, but if we do something stupid out of greed, we could destroy those blessings.

When men are tired of hearing and meditating upon the things of God, the fault lies within; in the background there is greed, and behind that sacrilege, and behind that again profanity. Let us search our hearts, and find whether the things of God have become merely a duty, a weariness, that we would relinquish if we dare, and to which we only hold for the sake of appearances.

To be clever enough to get all the money, one must be stupid enough to want it.

Hatred and greed are heavy loads. Your motive, on the other hand, is love. And instead of priding yourselves on your cunning, you recognize how weak you are...so weak that you must depend totally on the Spirit of God.

Only one sweeter end can readily be recalled—the delicious death of an Ohio honey-hunter, who seeking honey in the crotch of a hollow tree, found such exceeding store of it, that leaning too far over, it sucked him in, so that he died embalmed. How many, think ye, have likewise fallen into Plato's honey head, and sweetly perished there?

America needs young people to be inspired to choose sacrifice over greed.

To have done anything just for money is to have been truly idle.

That is true plenty, not to have, but not to want riches.

The avarice of mankind is insatiable; at one time two obols was pay enough; but now, when this sum has become customary, men always want more and more without end.

Nowadays, for the sake of the advantage which is to be gained from the public revenues and from office, men want to be always in office.