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Avarice Quotes

Willa Cather quote: "Avarice, he assured them, was the one passion that grew..."
Avarice, he assured them, was the one passion that grew stronger and sweeter in old age. Willa Cather
David McCullough quote: "...avarice and stinginess [are] not frugality"
...avarice and stinginess [are] not frugality David McCullough
Matthew Green quote: "Avarice, the sphincter of the heart."
Avarice, the sphincter of the heart. Matthew Green
David Hume quote: "Avarice, the spur of industry."
Avarice, the spur of industry. David Hume
Edmund Pendleton quote: "Avarice seems to have so pervaded our vital principles as to..."
Avarice seems to have so pervaded our vital principles as to battle all hopes of a remedy but for peace and plenty. Edmund Pendleton
Charles Caleb Colton quote: "Avarice has ruined more souls than extravagance."
Avarice has ruined more souls than extravagance. Charles Caleb Colton
George Bancroft quote: "Avarice is the vice of declining years."
Avarice is the vice of declining years. George Bancroft
If we lived in a State where virtue was profitable, common sense would make us good, and greed would make us saintly. And we'd live like animals or angels in the happy land that /needs/ no heroes. But since in fact we see that avarice, anger, envy, pride, sloth, lust and stupidity commonly profit far beyond humility, chastity, fortitude, justice and thought, and have to choose, to be human at all... why then perhaps we /must/ stand fast a little --even at the risk of being heroes. Robert Bolt
He who seeks to regulate everything by law is more likely to arouse vices than to reform them. It is best to grant what cannot be abolished, even though it be in itself harmful. How many evils spring from luxury, envy, avarice, drunkenness and the like, yet these are tolerated because they cannot be prevented by legal enactments. Baruch Spinoza
Dante Alighieri quote: "There, pride, avarice, and envy are the tongues men know and..."
There, pride, avarice, and envy are the tongues men know and heed, a Babel of depsair Dante Alighieri
These are the Seven Deadly Sins: Avarice, Envy, Pride, Gluttony, Lust, Anger, Sloth. These are the seven deadly sins: venality, paranoia, insecurity, excess, carnality, contempt, boredom. Martin Amis
It is just a lonely certainty that we are right and everybody else wrong, which makes it worthwhile for us busy-bodies to go on making a nuisance of ourselves. Our job is to keep both the simple Philistine and the greedy rich in their places, to prevent them, in their stupidity and avarice, from destroying everything that is left. Auberon Waugh
The dreadful superstition that it is possible to foresee the future shape of society serves to justify all kinds of violence in the name of that structure. It is enough for a person to free his thoughts, even temporarily, of this superstition and to look sincerely and seriously at the life of the nation for it to become clear to him that acceptance of the need to oppose evil with violence is nothing other than the justification people give to their habitual and favourite vices: vengeance,... Leo Tolstoy
Gluttony and sloth, as worldly goals, were quietly usurped by avarice and lust, which, together with poetry (yes, poetry), consumed all my free time. Martin Amis
Of all the systems of religion that ever were invented, there is no more derogatory to the Almighty, more unedifying to man, more repugnant to reason, and more contradictory to itself than this thing called Christianity. Too absurd for belief, too impossible to convince, and too inconsistent for practice, it renders the heart torpid or produces only atheists or fanatics. As an engine of power, it serves the purpose of despotism, and as a means of wealth, the avarice of priests, but so far as... Thomas Paine

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