Dave Hickey Quotes

America is so terribly grim in spite of all that material prosperity.... Compassion and the old neighborliness have gone, people stand by and do nothing when friends and neighbors are attacked, libeled and ruined. The worst thing is what is done to the children. They are being taught to admire and emulate stool pigeons, to betray and to hate, and all in a sickening atmosphere of religious hypocrisy.

The love of material ease has been, in the mass of men and permanently speaking, always greater than the love of liberty.

The man whose only pleasure in life is making money, weighs less on the moral scale than an angleworm.

I don't know if Jesus said it in the Bible, but someone said that 'the love of money is the root of all evil,' and I do think there's a correlation between the ambition that a lot of people have, in terms of financial remuneration, and the loss of core values.

Spiritual worldliness kills! It kills the soul! It kills the Church!

Self-centered indulgence, pride and a lack of shame over sin are now emblems of the American lifestyle.

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

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

This has resulted in more and more people becoming inner-directed and having as their only goal, getting as much as they can get out of the system and putting as little into it as possible.

The world is so competitive, aggressive, consumive, selfish and during the time we spend here we must be all but that.

Materialism coarsens and petrifies everything, making everything vulgar, and every truth false.

The worship of the golden calf of old has found a new and heartless image in the cult of money and the dictatorship of an economy which is faceless and lacking any truly human goal.

Our own relentless search for novelty and social status locks us into an iron cage of consumerism. Affluence has itself betrayed us.

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 God of this world is riches, pleasure and pride.

For at least another hundred years we must pretend to ourselves and to every one that fair is foul and foul is fair; for foul is useful and fair is not. Avarice and usury and precaution must be our gods for a little longer still.

The FSG story starts to lose its fairy-tale aura when filthy lucre invades the sacred enclosure, as it did ubiquitously in the every-man-for-himself Reagan era.

Rapine, avarice, expense, This is idolatry; and these we adore; Plain living and high thinking are no more.

When men cease to aspire to the ideal, the good, to self-restraint—–whether in their arts or in their lives—–they do not just stand still, but actually turn the other way, finding self-fulfillment in self-indulgence, and in an obsession with those three ultimate expressions of the totally self-centered life: sex, violence and insanity.

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…

He who thinks that anything can be accomplished with money will himself likely to do anything for money.

No one seems to care for anything but about money today. Nothing is held of account except the bank accounts. Quality, education, civic distinction, public virtue seem each year to be valued less and less.

I don't believe the makeup of America is as solid as it was 40 years ago. Society has become more selfish and, as a result, less dedicated to the common good. Millions hail a culture that is now more concerned with money and appearances than with genuine accomplishment.

The more men value money the less they value virtue.

Economic man and sensual man are not suppressible.