top of page
Quote_1.png
Robert Green Ingersoll

"I do not see how it is possible for a man to die worth fifty million of dollars, or ten million of dollars, in a city full of want, when he meets almost every day the withered hand of beggary and the white lips of famine. How a man can withstand all that, and hold in the clutch of his greed twenty or thirty million of dollars, is past my comprehension. I do not see how he can do it. I should not think he could do it any more than he could keep a pile of lumber on the beach, where hundreds and thousands of men were drowning in the sea."

Standard 
 Customized
"I do not see how it is possible for a man to die worth fifty million of dollars, or ten million of dollars, in a city full of want, when he meets almost every day the withered hand of beggary and the white lips of famine. How a man can withstand all that, and hold in the clutch of his greed twenty or thirty million of dollars, is past my comprehension. I do not see how he can do it. I should not think he could do it any more than he could keep a pile of lumber on the beach, where hundreds and thousands of men were drowning in the sea."

Exlpore more Greed quotes

Quote_1.png
Amber Hurdle

"Money holds terrible power when it is loved."

Quote_1.png
Amber Hurdle

"Ah, Caderousse,' said Andrea, 'how covetous you are! Two months ago you were dying with hunger.''The appetite grows by what it feeds on,' said Caderousse."

Quote_1.png
Amber Hurdle

"I too often allow people to become a sterile commodity to be bartered in the service of my greed, and in doing something so absurdly reckless I foolishly barter away everything that meets my need."

Quote_1.png
Amber Hurdle

"There is enough in the world for everyone's need, but not enough for everyone's greed."

Quote_1.png
Amber Hurdle

"For greed all nature is too little."

Quote_1.png
Amber Hurdle

"An intriguing paradox of the 1990s is that it isn't called a decade of greed."

Quote_1.png
Amber Hurdle

"Hoarding can never end, for the heart of man always covets for more, its raging appetites can only be quenched by the heavy sands of the grave."

Quote_1.png
Amber Hurdle

"Looking so cool, his greed is hard to conceal, he's fresh out of law school, you gave him a license to steal."

Quote_1.png
Amber Hurdle

"You can dress up greed, but you can't stop the stench."

Quote_1.png
Amber Hurdle

"You can satiate a Man's hunger but never his greed!"

Explore more quotes by Robert Green Ingersoll

Quote_1.png
Robert Green Ingersoll
"In the republic of mediocrity, genius is dangerous."
Quote_1.png
Robert Green Ingersoll
"The inspiration of the Bible depends upon the ignorance of the gentleman who reads it."
Quote_1.png
Robert Green Ingersoll
"The Church has always been willing to swap off treasures in heaven for cash down."
Quote_1.png
Robert Green Ingersoll
"Ignorance is the soil in which belief in miracles grows."
Quote_1.png
Robert Green Ingersoll
"In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments; there are consequences."
Quote_1.png
Robert Green Ingersoll
"Courage without conscience is a wild beast."
Quote_1.png
Robert Green Ingersoll
"What light is to the eyes - what air is to the lungs - what love is to the heart, liberty is to the soul of man."
Quote_1.png
Robert Green Ingersoll
"My creed is that: Happiness is the only good. The place to be happy is here. The time to be happy is now. The way to be happy is to make others so."
Quote_1.png
Robert Green Ingersoll
"In the night of death, hope sees a star, and listening love can hear the rustle of a wing."
Quote_1.png
Robert Green Ingersoll
"When the will defies fear, when duty throws the gauntlet down to fate, when honor scorns to compromise with death - that is heroism."
bottom of page