Material Greed Quotes

Holy poverty confounds cupidity and avarice and the cares of this world.

The black and merciless things that are behind the great possessions.

A thirst for gold, The beggar's vice, which can but overwhelm The meanest hearts.

Mr. Greed, why do you have to own everything that you see?

There's a belief in some cultures that if a person experiences good fortune in financial terms and does not share the good fortune, when that person becomes ill with a mysterious fever and dies, people tend to say: 'Aha! It was because he didn't share. It was the spirits who brought him down.'

Let none admire that riches grow in hell; that soil may best deserve the precious bane.

Cursed be he above all others Who's enslaved by love of money. Money takes the place of brothers, Money takes the place of parents, Money brings us war and slaughter.

None of us seem to think that we should draw a line under what would be a satisfactory amount of wealth.