Dorothy L. Sayers Quotes

Avarice, the spur of industry.

There is always greed. There is nothing wrong with greed.

Greed is good.

… an avalanche of avarice

… a creed of greed

We must expect for a long time yet to see capitalists still striving to obtain the highest possible profits. But observe, that the passion for wealth is certainly in some senses new. It grew up very rapidly at the beginning of the present century; it was not so strong in the last century, when men were much more content to lead a quiet easy life of leisure. The change has really influenced the relations between men; but in the future it is quite possible that the scramble for wealth may grow less intense, and a change in the opposite direction take place.

Avarice is fear sheathed in gold.

For avarice begins where poverty ends.

The poor man wants many things; the covetous man, all.

Today is much more an age of greed

Bare-faced covetousness was the moving spirit of civilization from its first dawn to the present day; wealth, and again wealth, and for the third time wealth; wealth, not of society, but of the puny individual, was its only and final aim.

As riches grow, care follows, and a thirst For more and more.

The market-place, the eager love of gain, Whose aim is vanity, and whose end is pain!

Greed, for lack of a better word, is good.

Where poverty ceases, avarice begins.

While generosity may be the antidote for the dizzying effects of wealth, your appetite for more may function as an antidote against God-honoring generosity. Your appetite for more stuff, status, and security has the potential to quash your efforts to be generous. And that's a problem.

Make money. Make more money. Make others produce so as to make money... However you get them in or why, just do it.

There is only one vice, which may be found in life with as strong features, and as high a colouring as needs be employed by any satyrist or comic poet; and that is AVARICE.

The American way of life, as I see it, is really the American way of death. Everything is determined by greed and the insatiable desire to be the richest and most powerful. And that desire is limitless.

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

But men are so full of greed today, they'll sell anything for a little piece of money.

The corruption of the American soul is consumerism.

From the first day to this, sheer greed was the driving spirit of civilization.

Excess of wealth is cause of covetousness.