Nina Simone Quotes

Riches are not forbidden, but the pride of them is.

Avarice, the spur of industry.

The miser is as much in want of what he has as of what he has not.

One of our deepest needs is to be at home.

Poverty wants some, luxury many, and avarice all things.

Home is where you hang your hat.

Greed is good.

I think we're all greedy. Who do you know who says, 'I have enough! I don't need any more!'? It's part of human nature.

The pride of dying rich raises the loudest laugh in hell.

London is my home... I know what's right and wrong here, and it's nice to have somewhere familiar to go back to.

There are few retreats, that can escape the penetrating eye of avarice.

Avarice has ruined more souls than extravagance.

But for the first time in many years, I get to sleep in my own bed every night. I haven't done that, literally, in years. It seems like such a small thing, but it is so nice.

It means zero to be against greed.

Seek home for rest, for home is best.

Home is where your rump rests.

Be charitable before wealth makes you covetous.

I think one of the most pervasive evils in this world is greed and acquiring money for money's sake. Once you have six houses and a plane, it's just about a number. It's never been anything I understood.

Home is, in the end, not just the place where you sleep, but the place where you stand.

Our culture highlights the desire to always have more, even when we should be grateful for what we have.

If we could make our house a home, and then make it a sanctuary, I think we could truly find paradise on Earth.

Our fathers worshiped the golden calf. The worst you can say of an American now is, he worships the gold of the calf.

The man who has gotten everything he wants is all in favor of peace and order.

I wanted to get that sense of peace and even boredom that comes with long familiarity.

Greed has taken the whole universe, and nobody is worried about their soul.