Top 35 Deep, Inspirational Quotes About "Avarice" (2022)

"No client ever had money enough to bribe my conscience or to stop its utterance against wrong, and oppression. My conscience is my own - my creators - not man's. I shall never sink the rights of mankind to the malice, wrong, or avarice of another's wishes, though those wishes come to me in the relation of client and attorney."

--- Abraham Lincoln

#Lawyer #My Own #Law

"Avarice and injustice are always shortsighted, and they did not foresee how much this regulation must obstruct improvement, and thereby hurt in the long-run the real interest of the landlord."

--- Adam Smith

#Running #Long #Interest

"An appreciation of words is so rare that everybody naturally thinks he possesses it, and this universal sentiment results in the misuse of a material whose beauty enriches the loving student beyond the dreams of avarice."

--- Agnes Repplier

#Thinking #Results #Language

"Three great forces rule the world: stupidity, fear and greed."

--- Albert Einstein

#World #Greed #Three

"By multiplying the means of gratification, by promoting the introduction and circulation of the precious metals, those darling objects of human avarice and enterprise, it serves to vivify and invigorate the channels of industry, and to make them flow with greater activity and copiousness. The assiduous merchant, the laborious husbandman, the active mechanic, and the industrious manufacturer,-all orders of men, look forward with eager expectation and growing alacrity to this pleasing reward of their toils."

--- Alexander Hamilton

#Avarice #Commerce #Promoting

"Be niggards of advice on no pretense; For the worst avarice is that of sense."

--- Alexander Pope

#Advice #Worst #Avarice

"At length corruption, like a general flood (So long by watchful ministers withstood), Shall deluge all; and avarice, creeping on, Spread like a low-born mist, and blot the sun."

--- Alexander Pope

#Spread #Born #Long

"The character of covetousness, is what a man generally acquires more through some niggardliness or ill grace in little and inconsiderable things, than in expenses of any consequence."

--- Alexander Pope

#Men #Littles #Character

"How far, O rich, do you extend your senseless avarice? Do you intend to be the sole inhabitants of the earth? Why do you drive out the fellow sharers of nature, and claim it all for yourselves? The earth was made for all, rich and poor, in common. Why do you rich claim it as your exclusive right?"

--- Ambrose

#Fellows #Made #Earth

"What will you do if your product still further increases next year? You should then destroy again the warehouses which you are now preparing to build, and build bigger. For the reason why God has given you fruitful harvests is that He might either overcome your avarice or condemn it; wherefore you can have no excuse. But you keep for yourself what He wished to be produced through you for the benefit of many - nay, rather, you rob even yourself of it, since you would better preserve it for yourself if you distributed it to others."

--- Ambrose

#No Excuses #Preparing #Harvest

"Avarice is to the intellect what sensuality is to the morals."

--- Anna Brownell Jameson

#Greed #Moral #Intellect

"The man who worships mere wealth is a snob."

--- Anthony Trollope

#He Man #Men #Mere

"There are men who gain from their wealth only the fear of losing it."

--- Antoine Rivarol

#Men #Greed #Wealth

"Whatever thrift is, it is not avarice. Avarice is not generous; and, after all, it is the thrifty people who are generous."

--- Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery

#People #Generous #Avarice

"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."

--- Aristotle

#Want #Pay #Ends

"The trade of the petty usurer is hated with most reason: it makes a profit from currency itself, instead of making it from the process which currency was meant to serve. Their common characteristic is obviously their sordid avarice."

--- Aristotle

#Process #Reason #Hated

"Those whose days are consumed in the low pursuits of avarice, or the gaudy frivolties of fashion, unobservant of nature's lovelinessof demarcation, nor on which side thereof an intermediate form should lie."

--- Aristotle

#Should #Fashion #Lying

"The avarice of mankind is insatiable."

--- Aristotle

#Mankind #Insatiable #Avarice

"What is at the heart of all national problems? It is that we have seen the hand of material interest sometimes about to close upon our dearest rights and possessions."

--- Woodrow Wilson

#Hands #Sometimes #Problem

"The be-all and end-all of life should not be to get rich, but to enrich the world."

--- B. C. Forbes

#Ends #Should #World

"Rapine, avarice, expense, This is idolatry; and these we adore; Plain living and high thinking are no more."

--- William Wordsworth

#Thinking #Expenses #Idols

"Plain living and high thinking are no more."

--- William Wordsworth

#Thinking #Life #Avarice

"Avarice is the most oppose of all characters to that of God Almighty, whose alone it is to give and not receive."

--- William Shenstone

#Giving #Character #Avarice

"Some men are called sagacious, merely on account of their avarice; whereas a child can clench its fist the moment it is born."

--- William Shenstone

#Children #Men #Moments

"People can commend the weather without envy."

--- William Shenstone

#People #Greed #Weather

"Strikes deeper, grows with more pernicious root."

--- William Shakespeare

#Greed #Deeper #Grows

"To hazard much to get much has more of avarice than wisdom."

--- William Penn

#Wall #Hazards #Avarice

"When virtue is banished, ambition invades the minds of those who are disposed to receive it and avarice possesses the whole community."

--- Baron de Montesquieu

#Mind #Community #Ambition

"It would not be more unreasonable to transplant a favorite flower out of black earth into gold dust than it is for a person to let money-getting harden his heart into contempt, or into impatience, of the little attentions, the merriments and the caresses of domestic life."

--- William Mountford

#Earth #Persons #Black

"Have we come all this way, I wondered, only to be dismantled by our own technologies, to be betrayed by political connivance or the impersonal avarice of a corporation?"

--- Barry Lopez

#Way #Political #Rivers

"He who seeks to regulate everything by law is more likely to arouse vices than to reform them. It is best to grant what cannot be abolished, even though it be in itself harmful. How many evils spring from luxury, envy, avarice, drunkenness and the like, yet these are tolerated because they cannot be prevented by legal enactments."

--- Baruch Spinoza

#Law #Evil #Luxury

"Avarice is the miser's dream, as fame is the poet's."

--- William Hazlitt

#Fame #Dream #Misers

"I glory, more in the cunning purchase of my wealth than in the glad possession."

--- Ben Jonson

#Greed #Glory #Possession

"Avarice, where it has full dominion, excludes every other passion."

--- William E. Gladstone

#Passion #Dominion #Avarice

"Poverty wants some things, Luxury many things, Avarice all things"

--- Benjamin Franklin

#Want #Luxury #All Things

Deep, Inspirational Quotes about "Avarice"