Greed

(241 votes)   So for a good old-gentlemanly vice, I think I must take up with avarice.

Lord Byron
1788-1824, British Poet

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(141 votes)   Wars and revolutions and battles are due simply and solely to the body and its desires. All wars are undertaken for the acquisition of wealth; and the reason why we have to acquire wealth is the body, because we are slaves in its service.

Socrates
BC 469-399, Greek Philosopher of Athens

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(134 votes)   Let me tell you, Cassius, you yourself are much condemned to have an itching palm.

William Shakespeare
1564-1616, British Poet, Playwright, Actor

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(130 votes)   To hazard much to get much has more of avarice than wisdom.

William Penn
1644-1718, British Religious Leader, Founder of Pennsylvania

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(124 votes)   Big mouthfuls often choke.

Italian Proverbs
Sayings of Italian Origin

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(105 votes)   God forgives the sin of gluttony.

Catalan Proverbs

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(101 votes)   It is of the nobility of man's soul that he is insatiable: for he hath a benefactor so prone to give, that he delighteth in us for asking. Do not your inclinations tell you that the WORLD is yours? Do you not covet all? Do you not long to have it; to enjoy it; to overcome it? To what end do men gather riches, but to multiply more? Do they not like Pyrrhus the King of Epire, add house to house and lands to lands, that they may get it all?

Thomas Traherne
1636-1674, British Clergyman, Poet, Mystic

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(96 votes)   Avarice is generally the last passion of those lives of which the first part has been squandered in pleasure, and the second devoted to ambition. He that sinks under the fatigue of getting wealth, lulls his age with the milder business of saving it.

Samuel Johnson
1709-1784, British Author

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(83 votes)   He who distinguishes the true savor of his food can never be a glutton; he who does not cannot be otherwise.

Henry David Thoreau
1817-1862, American Essayist, Poet, Naturalist

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(78 votes)   The avarice person is ever in want; let your desired aim have a fixed limit.

Horace
BC 65-8, Italian Poet

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(77 votes)   Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of the rich on the poor.

Thomas Jefferson
1743-1826, Third President of the USA

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(77 votes)   Greed is all right, by the way I think greed is healthy. You can be greedy and still feel good about yourself.

Ivan F. Boesky

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(75 votes)   I have news for the forces of greed and the defenders of the status quo; your time has come and gone. It's time for change in America.

Bill Clinton
1946-, Forty-second President of the USA

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(70 votes)   You show me a capitalist, and I'll show you a bloodsucker.

Malcolm X
1925-1965, American Black Leader, Activist

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(69 votes)   From top to bottom of the ladder, greed is aroused without knowing where to find ultimate foothold. Nothing can calm it, since its goal is far beyond all it can attain. Reality seems valueless by comparison with the dreams of fevered imaginations; reality is therefore abandoned.

Emile Durkheim
1858-1917, French Sociologist

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