Quotes about Avarice

The God of this world is riches, pleasure and pride.

Eternal joy can never be taken from God's people. Therefore ambition, restlessness, and avarice can be put away for the first time as we rest more and more in the work of the Son of God.

2. Greed, or acquisitive desire.

Gratitude looks to the Past and love to the Present; fear, avarice, lust, and ambition look ahead.

It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.

We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge or gallantry would break the strongest cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net. Our Constitution is designed only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate for any other.

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 acquiring property chiefly, the landscape is deformed, husbandry is degraded with us, and the farmer leads the meanest of lives. He knows Nature but as a robber.

I'm extra-good at wanting things. I want things until I feel sort of sick about them. I want enough for two normal people, at least.

True it is that covetousness is rich, modesty starves.

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 goat.

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.

Gratitude looks to the Past and love to the Present; fear, avarice, lust, and ambition look ahead.