Sojourner Truth Quotes

Avarice has ruined more souls than extravagance.

The corruption of the American soul is consumerism.

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.

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

Excess of wealth is cause of covetousness.

For greed, all nature is too little.

Of prosperity mortals can never have enough.

… an avalanche of avarice

… a creed of greed

I already own more than any human being needs.

I think we're all greedy. Who do you know who says, 'I have enough! I don't need any more!'? It's part of human nature.

In plain Truth, it is no Want, but rather Abundance that creates Avarice.

There is a certain sort of excess that is interesting, don't you think? And America is, of course, the most excessive place.

The pride of dying rich raises the loudest laugh in hell.

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

The miser is as much in want of what he has as of what he has not.

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.

Avarice, the sphincter of the heart.

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

Every increased possession loads us with a new weariness.

We are shallow because we have become enslaved by gross materialism, the glitter of gold and its equivalents, for which reason we think that only the material goods of this earth can satisfy us and we must therefore grab as much as can while we are able.

Great abundance of riches cannot be gathered and kept by any man without sin.

There are still people in Japan who think money is something evil.

The Puritans were obsessed with the dangers of wealth.