Katharine Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould Quotes

Though we take from a covetous man all his treasure, he has yet one jewel left; you cannot bereave him of his covetousness.

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

Man hoards himself when he has nothing to give away.

Because men believe not in Providence, therefore they do so greedily scrape and hoard. They do not believe in any reward for charity, therefore they will part with nothing.

Twin-sister of Religion, Selfishness.

Short-sighted is the philosophy which counts on selfishness as the master motive of human action.

The instinct of ownership is fundamental in man’s nature.

Greed is the assumption that it is all for my consumption.

Men hate the individual whom they call avaricious only because nothing can be gained from him.

Human beings place their desires ahead of the collective good.

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

Avarice, the spur of industry.

Man is essentially a selfish creature. The differences in the degree with which this developed are infinite.

For a solitary animal egoism is a virtue that tends to preserve and improve the species: in any kind of community it becomes a destructive vice.

Selfishness is the greatest curse of the human race.

No one likes to have less than they had before. That's the nature of the human animal.

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

The world is so competitive, aggressive, consumive, selfish and during the time we spend here we must be all but that.

Those whose life is long still strive for gain, and for all mortals all things take second place to money.

Men's moral principles are weak enough without their being made subordinate to selfishness; and their selfishness is quite active enough, without any such effort as Christianity makes to constitute it the mainspring of all their conduct.

Greed is all right ... Greed is healthy. You can be greedy and still feel good about yourself.

.... the forces of greed

If you want something, if you take it for your own, you'll always be taking it from someone else.

Human history is the sad result of each one looking out for himself.

Whatever we treasure for ourselves separates us from others; our possessions are our limitations.