50 Quotes About Avarice

Greed is a contagious mental illness without which civilization as we know it would not have been possible.

When avarice takes the lead in a state, it is commonly the forerunner of its fall.

Things joined by profit, when pressed by misfortune and danger, will cast each other aside.

Loan sharking may mean investment and immediate solutions but desperate loan sharks, who are short of cash, abuse your rights and attack other people's home. ~ Odyssey of a Heart, Home of a Soul

Take taking from those that give & nobody anywhere will need any more such gifts.

Greed is taking more than you need to feed. Avarice is hoarding, and stockpiling stolen, rotten goods.

Avarice is opposed to nobility.It believes that by robbing many of all they have, that it (greed) is cloaked in the nobility that is the birthmark of the people.

The avarice, the hunger for materialistic possessions and the dependency upon alcohol had gradually become stronger and stronger. And now, it was the sum total of what she was.

You have to understand that only the very worst end up here: the ones whose anger made them kill, and who felt no sorrow or guilt after the act; those so obsessed with themselves that they turned their backs on the sufferings of others, and left them in pain; those whose greed meant that others starved and died. Such souls belong here, because they would find no peace elsewhere. In this place, they are understood. In this place, their faults have meaning. In this place, they belong.