John Fogerty Quotes

This avidity alone, of acquiring goods and possessions for ourselves and our nearest friends, is insatiable, perpetual, universal, and directly destructive of society.

No living creature is naturally greedy, except from fear of want - or in the case of human beings, from vanity, the notion that you're better than people if you can display more superfluous property than they can.

There is a number among us, young and old, of all sorts almost among us, that swarm up and down towns, and woods, and fields, whose care and work hitherto hath been like bees, only to get honey to their own hive.

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

Avarice is the vice of declining years.

I believe I was extremely greedy.

The desire for money may be an indication of greed, but I want to argue that greed is a much more subtle vice than simply the desire to be rich.

… an avalanche of avarice

… a creed of greed

.... the forces of greed

Avarice is a deadly sin.

Greed is the worst thing.

Whatever is not nailed down is mine." This is the motto of the exploiter. "Whatever can be pried loose is not nailed down." This is the second maxim in a country where people are rich, caring little in their present prosperity what shall become of the future.

Avarice is fear sheathed in gold.

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

The love of money as a possession...will be recognised for what it is, a somewhat disgusting morbidity.

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.

The instinct of acquisitiveness has more perverts, I believe, than the instinct of sex. At any rate, people seem to me odder about money than about even their amours.

I'm not technically rich, but I do have a lot of s**t that I don't need, that I refuse to share with others.

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

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

Money is evil.

I felt I was owned by possessions.

Man's greed to obtain something for nothing has never yet been able to content itself with a moderate profit.

Most men have always wanted as much as they could get; and possession has always blunted the fine edge of their altruism.