George Savile Quotes

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

Our soul is cast into a body, where it finds number, time, dimension. Thereupon it reasons, and calls this nature necessity, and can believe nothing else.

Greed has taken the whole universe, and nobody is worried about their soul.

The corruption of the American soul is consumerism.

The beast for me is greed. Whether you read Dante, Swift, or any of these guys, it always boils down to the same thing: the corruption of the soul.

Those whose life is long still strive for gain, and for all mortals all things take second place to money.

The selfish spirit of commerce which knows no country, and feels no passion or principle but that of gain.

What has a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?

The Italians of today think of the belly, not of the soul.

For the purpose of acquiring gain, everything else is pushed aside or thrown overboard, for example, as is philosophy by the professors of philosophy.

With shame be it spoken: by her fall, the Church's liberties have been sacrificed for the sake of temporal advantages. The road to her ruin lay through the sinuous paths of riches: she has been prostituted in the streets to princes; she has conceived iniquity and will bring forth oppression to the undeserving.

For the loot, honey, for the loot.

The more we have, the more we want. And for this reason, we never have it all.

We were all brought up to want things and maybe the world isn't big enough for all that wanting. I don't know. I don't know anything

Greed has poisoned men's souls.

He who is always in a hurry to be wealthy and immersed in the study of augmenting his fortune has lost the arms of reason and deserted the post of virtue.

More! More! is the cry of a mistaken soul.

Greed can be very dangerous because you sacrifice your soul for the sake of something material, and then you start sacrificing people in order to keep that which is material.

Habit: A shackle for the free.

Their property held them in chains...chains which shackled their courage and choked their faith and hampered their judgment and throttled their soul...If they stored up their treasure in heaven, they would not now have an enemy and a thief within their own household...They think of themselves as owners, whereas it is they rather who are owned: enslaved as they are to their own property, they are not the masters of their money but its slaves.

There are some souls so base and filthy that they love gain and interest as noble souls love fame and virtue, knowing one pleasure only, that of making money or of not losing it; anxious and avid for their ten per cent; entirely preoccupied with what is owed them; forever concerned about the depreciation or discredit of money; buried, and as it were engulfed, amid contracts, title-deeds and parchments. Such people are neither parents, friends, citizens or Christians, nor, perhaps, even men; they merely have money.

The superior man loves his soul; the inferior man loves his property.

Here in the United States, we're consumed by our love of money and status. We think bigger is better, and if we can just get that promotion, all will be well with our souls. There's one fatal flaw to this mindset: it's all smoke and mirrors.

And their greed was for gold or God. They collected souls as they collected jewels.

It's the person who would sell his soul for a nickel, who is loudest in proclaiming his hatred of money.