Edwin Arlington Robinson Quotes

Avarice is fear sheathed in gold.

Some men make money not for the sake of living, but ache In the blindness of greed and live just for their fortune's sake.

Material possessions, in themselves, are good. We would not survive for long without money, clothing and shelter. We must eat in order to stay alive. Yet if we are greedy, if we refuse to share what we have with the hungry and the poor, then we make our possessions into a false god. How many voices in our materialist society tell us that happiness is to be found by acquiring as many possessions and luxuries as we can! But this is to make possessions into a false god. Instead of bringing life, they bring death.

Those who own much have much to fear.

Fear of death increases in exact proportion to increase in wealth.

Success and money can really be quite blinding.

The God of this world is riches, pleasure and pride.

Money. All these guys care about is money. They want money. How much money have we given them?

The Almighty Dollar, that great object of universal devotion throughout our land, seems to have no genuine devotees in these peculiar villages.

How unfortunate and how narrowing a thing it is for a man to have wealth who makes a god of it instead of a servant.

He has not acquired a fortune; the fortune has acquired him.

My native land is a slave of heathenism, men's god is their belly, and they live only for the present. The richer a man, the holier.

Though it is perhaps expected for the bishop of Rome to warn against the idolatry of money, what is striking is how Francis suggests that not only God but also secular politics must outrank economic imperatives.

America has gone crazy with greed. I really have to say that.

The desire to gain wealth and the fear to lose it are our chief breeders of cowardice and propagators of corruption.

...it is presumptuous ridicule of God if someone thinks that only the person who desires great wealth chooses mammon. Alas, the person who insists on having a penny without God, wants to have a penny all for himself. He thereby chooses mammon. A penny is enough, the choice is made, he has chosen mammon; that it is little makes not the slightest difference. The love of God is hatred of the world and love of the world hatred of God.

Money is the root of all evil. Yeah, money is the root. It's not racism and "this-ism" and "that-ism"; it's our thirst and hunger for money. And that's where all the bodies are buried.

Earthly goods are given to be used, not to be collected.... Hoarding is idolatry.

O money, money, how blindly thou hast been worshipped, and how stupidly abused! Thou are health and liberty and strength, and he that has thee may rattle his pockets at the foul fiend!

If you view life as a gold rush, you're going to end up worshiping a golden calf.

God did not die; he was transformed into money

The miser is the man who starves himself and everybody else, in order to worship wealth in its dead form, as distinct from its living form.

Some folks serve the almighty dollar far more faithfully than the Almighty God. They get greater delight out of balancing the budget than watching the Lord multiply the loaves and fishes.

Paines to get, care to keep, feare to lose.

Some men make fortunes, but not to enjoy them for, blinded by avarice, they live to make fortunes.