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| Avarice |
What’s the matter with the world? Why, there ain't but one thing wrong with every one of us, and that’s "selfishness". Will Rogers
The avarice of the miser may be termed the grand sepulcher of all his other passions, as they successively decay. Charles Caleb Colton
Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit. Somerset Maugham
I wish to become rich, so that I can instruct the people and glorify honest poverty a little, like those kind hearted, fat, benevolent people do. Mark Twain
Avarice often produces opposite results: there are an infinite number of persons who sacrifice their property to doubtful and distant expectations; others mistake great future advantages for small present interests. Rochefoucauld
A bachelor is a selfish, undeserving guy who has cheated some woman out of a divorce. Don Quinn
Avarice is a fine absorbing passion, and many a fellow is as happy with his arm around his bank account as he was sleigh riding with his first girl. Finley Peter Dunne
Human history is the sad result of each one looking out for himself. Julio Courtenay
A person who is religiously enlightened appears to me to be one who has, to the best of his abilities, liberated himself from the fetters of his selfish desires and is preoccupied with thoughts, feelings and aspirations to which he clings because of their supra-personal value. Albert Einstein
There are some sordid minds, formed of slime and filth, to whom interest and gain are what glory and virtue are to superior souls; they feel no other pleasure but to acquire money. Jean DE La Bruyere
A moderate addiction to money may not always be hurtful, but when taken in excess it is nearly always bad for the health. Clarence Day
I could not possibly count the gold digging ruses of women; not if I had ten mouths, not if had ten tongues. Ovid
A picture of human life such as a great artist can give, surprises even the trivial and the selfish into that attention to what is apart from themselves, which may be called the raw material of moral sentiment. George Eliot
Corrupt, stupid grasping functionaries will make at least as big a muddle of socialism as stupid, selfish and acquisitive employers can make of capitalism. Walter Lippmann
Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess. Oscar Wilde
There is held to be no surer test of civilization than the increase per head of the consumption of alcohol and tobacco. Yet alcohol and tobacco are recognizably poisons, so that their consumption has only to be carried far enough to destroy civilization altogether. Havelock Ellis
Avarice misapprehends itself almost always. There is no passion which more often will miss its aim, nor upon which the present has so much influence to the prejudice of the future. Rochefoucauld
I would rather be rich affluent and greedy and go to hell when I die, than live in poverty on this earth. Al Capone
He who lives only for himself is truly dead to others. Syrus
Avarice is a cursed vice. Offer a man enough gold, and he will part with his own small hoard of food, however great his hunger. Lucan
The moral peril to humanity of thoughtlessly accepting these conveniences of materialism with their inherent disadvantages as constituting a philosophy of life is now becoming apparent. For the implications of this disruptive materialism are that human beings are nothing but bodies, animals, machines. Aldous Huxley
