These are the four that are never content: that have never been filled since the dew began- Jacala's mouth, and the glut of the kite, and the hands of the ape, and the eyes of Man.
When secularization has had its full sway, it will leave a generation devoid of shame. And if you show me a generation that lacks shame, I will show you a generation that is monstrous in its appetite... never satisfied.
Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.
Greed has poisoned men's souls.
This avidity alone, of acquiring goods and possessions for ourselves and our nearest friends, is insatiable, perpetual, universal, and directly destructive of society.
… an avalanche of avarice
Greed is so destructive. It destroys everything.
Many people who say they have financial problems really mean that they want more than they need.
The cursed hunger for gold. -Auri sacra fames
The unselective knowledge drive resembles the indiscriminate sexual drive--signs of vulgarity!
Man's greed to obtain something for nothing has never yet been able to content itself with a moderate profit.
Human prosperity never rests but always craves more, till blown up with pride it totters and falls. From the opulent mansions pointed at by all passers-by none warns it away, none cries, 'Let no more riches enter!'.
Covetousnesse breaks the bag.
For greed, all nature is too little.
Covetousness bursts the sack and spills the grain.
Can one desire too much of a good thing?
Greed is the assumption that it is all for my consumption.
If you ask for too much, you lose even that which you have.
It means zero to be against greed.
Want is a thing that unfurls unbidden like fungus, opening large upon itself, stopless, filling the sky. But needs, from one day to the next, are few enough to fit in a bucket, with room enough left to rattle like brittle brush in a dry wind.
When once ambition has passed its natural limits, its progress is boundless.
Remember: Greed is a bad color on a person.
There is no greater fault than sensual indulgence. There is no greater misfortune than malcontent. There is no greater calamity than greed.
Those who covet much suffer from the want.
Greed, like the love of comfort, is a kind of fear.
