F. Sionil Jose Quotes

I think one of the most pervasive evils in this world is greed and acquiring money for money's sake. Once you have six houses and a plane, it's just about a number. It's never been anything I understood.

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

As human beings, we're very materialistic and have all this stuff - furs and cars and diamonds and money.

The corruption of the American soul is consumerism.

Who covets more is evermore a slave.

The heart which finds life in material wealth is usually certain to go farther and seek for more in the satisfaction of base and sullen appetites.

The moral problem of our day is concerned with the love of money, with the habitual appeal to the money motive in nine-tenths of the activities of life…

I didn't think about money or cars or anything like that.

It is not the creation of wealth that is wrong, but the love of money for its own sake.

Too many of us now tend to worship self indulgence and consumption.

Avarice, the spur of industry.

America's critics can be heard everywhere. It is too much in love with money - worshipping the god of the marketplace, the golden calf. It has too much money, seven of the top 10 banks, eight of the top 10 companies etc. It is too stingy, giving away less of its wealth than other countries. It is vulgar, a rich barbarian.

Every man now worships gold, all other reverence being done away.

Those who set out to serve both God and Mammon soon discover that there is no God.

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

Basically, people are never happy enough because they want more money.

Consumerism is at once the engine of America and simultaneously one of the most revealing indicators of our collective shallowness.

We live in a materialist world, and materialism appeals so strongly to humanity, no matter where.

There is nothing so habit-forming as money.

The possession of wealth leads almost inevitably to its abuse. It is the chief, if not the only, cause of evils which desolate this world below. The thirst for gold is responsible for the most regrettable lapses into sin.

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.

There's nothing wrong with having a desire to want nice things. It's when we place that as a measure of the value of ourselves that it goes askew.

We do as much, we eat as much, we want as much.

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

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