German Proverb Quotes

Money is evil.

Poverty wants some, luxury many, and avarice all things.

Probably the greatest harm done by vast wealth is the harm that we of moderate means do ourselves when we let the vices of envy and hatred enter deep into our own natures.

The chief agent responsible for promoting the passions at the expense of justice turns out to be wealth.

The few men who possess the wealth of the material things of the earth at the present time are not truly happy.

The prosperous can not easily form a right idea of misery.

A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money.

A man that hoards up riches and enjoys them not, is like an ass that carries gold and eats thistles.

In any country where talent and virtue produce no advancement, money will be the national god. Its inhabitants will either have to possess money or make others believe that they do. Wealth will be the highest virtue, poverty the greatest vice.

All riches come from iniquity, and unless one has lost, another cannot gain.

The world no longer permits the stronger to kill the weaker, but it allows the wealthy to oppress the poor. Money is holier than man. Human life is less sacred than property. To save a dollar is regarded as a more necessary virtue than to save a human heart. Society cares more for fortune than for truth.

Gentlemen, I speak to you for the miners' families... The little children are gathered around a bare table without anything to eat. They are not asking for a $100,000 yacht like yours, Mr.______..." (here, he would gesture with his cigar toward an operator), "...or for a Rolls-Royce limousine like yours, Mr. _____..." (staring at another operator). They are asking only for a slim crust of bread.

As covetousness is the root of all evil, so poverty is, I believe, the worst of all snares.

Behind every great fortune there is a crime.

.... the forces of greed

For avarice begins where poverty ends.

The acquisition of riches has been to many not an end to their miseries, but a change in them: The fault is not in the riches, but the disposition.

I think that money is the root of all evil. I've seen it happen.

They're making a ton of money, and no one is getting a nickel.

I am the only person here who is enjoying this, and I get the money; they pay and have to suffer.

Almost every desire a poor man has is a punishable offence.

With these vast advantages, ordinary and extraordinary, one would have supposed the North would have been content, and would have at least respected the security and tranquility of such obedient and profitable brethren; but such is not human nature.

Money is the worst currency that ever grew among mankind. This sacks cities, this drives men from their homes, this teaches and corrupts the worthiest minds to turn base deeds.

But Satan now is wiser than of yore, and tempts by making rich, not making poor.