Sitting Bull Quotes

I felt I was owned by possessions.

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

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

Anything you cannot relinquish when it has outlived its usefulness possesses you, and in this materialistic age a great many of us are possessed by our possessions.

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

Some people's measure of success is how much they can grab hold of and hold on to.

The basis of tragedy is man's helplessness against disease, war and death; the basis of comedy is man's helplessness against vanity (the vanity of love, greed, lust, power).

The more we have the less we own.

It is preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly.

We think we own things, but the reality is, our things own us.

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

People so primitive that they did not know how to get money except by working for it.

If the Almighty had ever made a set of men that should do all the eating and none of the work, He would have made them with mouths only and no hands.

For such is the disease of wealth, which knows no limit to its desire of more...

Economic man and sensual man are not suppressible.

People are often reproached because their desires are directed mainly to money and they are fonder of it than of anything else. Yet it is natural and even inevitable …. every other blessing can satisfy only one desire and one need; for instance, food is good only to the hungry, wine only for the healthy, medicine for the sick, a fur coat for winter, women for youth, and so on... Money alone is the absolutely good thing because it meets not merely one need in concreto, but needs generally in abstracto.

It is difficult, if not impossible, to define the limit of our reasonable desires in respect of possessions.

The current public aspiration seems to be: Get what you can. Can what you get. Sit on the can behind gated fences.

Once a man has begun to accumulate money, it is unnatural to stop. He actually gets in a state where he wants more and more..

He has not acquired a fortune; the fortune has acquired him.

Nobody seemed to be interested in anything except making money.

It seems like a lot of people seek their peace in things. And most of us are not even satisfied with the things we have... we always want more.

I'm not a materialistic person at all, but I always want the next thing; I've got a nice toolbox, but I still want another set of spanners.

Before trying my hand at acting, I use to cultivate my own land with my father.

If money and material things become the center of our lives, they seize us and make us slaves.