Pete Doherty Quotes

The pride of dying rich raises the loudest laugh in hell.

Avarice has ruined more souls than extravagance.

Too many of us now tend to worship self indulgence and consumption.

I think one of the most pervasive evils in this world is greed and acquiring money for money's sake. Once you have six houses and a plane, it's just about a number. It's never been anything I understood.

Our fathers worshiped the golden calf. The worst you can say of an American now is, he worships the gold of the calf.

The corruption of the American soul is consumerism.

There are still people in Japan who think money is something evil.

The possession of wealth leads almost inevitably to its abuse. It is the chief, if not the only, cause of evils which desolate this world below. The thirst for gold is responsible for the most regrettable lapses into sin.

… a creed of greed

… ridiculous pomp, foolish adulation, and selfish avarice

There is something about prosperity that brings out the worst in some people.

Great eagerness in the pursuit of wealth, pleasure, or honor, cannot exist without sin.

There are few retreats, that can escape the penetrating eye of avarice.

America's critics can be heard everywhere. It is too much in love with money - worshipping the god of the marketplace, the golden calf. It has too much money, seven of the top 10 banks, eight of the top 10 companies etc. It is too stingy, giving away less of its wealth than other countries. It is vulgar, a rich barbarian.

Every man now worships gold, all other reverence being done away.

Avarice, the sphincter of the heart.

We are shallow because we have become enslaved by gross materialism, the glitter of gold and its equivalents, for which reason we think that only the material goods of this earth can satisfy us and we must therefore grab as much as can while we are able.

Great abundance of riches cannot be gathered and kept by any man without sin.

The Puritans were obsessed with the dangers of wealth.

Money is our madness, our vast collective madness.

The beast for me is greed. Whether you read Dante, Swift, or any of these guys, it always boils down to the same thing: the corruption of the soul.

Excess of wealth is cause of covetousness.

The curse of covetousness is that it destroys manhood by substituting money for character.

I think that money spoils most things, once it becomes the primary motivating force.

Consumerism is at once the engine of America and simultaneously one of the most revealing indicators of our collective shallowness.