Jean de la Bruyere Quotes

The quest for riches darkens the sense of right and wrong.

While the miser is merely a capitalist gone mad, the capitalist is a rational miser.

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

The beast for me is greed. Whether you read Dante, Swift, or any of these guys, it always boils down to the same thing: the corruption of the soul.

The heart which finds life in material wealth is usually certain to go farther and seek for more in the satisfaction of base and sullen appetites.

How unfortunate and how narrowing a thing it is for a man to have wealth who makes a god of it instead of a servant.

… the mere money-making American, insensible to every duty, regardless of every principle, bent only on amassing a fortune.

Greed has poisoned men's souls.

I think that money is the root of all evil. I've seen it happen.

I know of nothing more despicable and pathetic than a man who devotes all the hours of the waking day to the making of money for money's sake.

The man whose only pleasure in life is making money, weighs less on the moral scale than an angleworm.

Avarice has ruined more souls than extravagance.

I don't know if Jesus said it in the Bible, but someone said that 'the love of money is the root of all evil,' and I do think there's a correlation between the ambition that a lot of people have, in terms of financial remuneration, and the loss of core values.

It means zero to be against greed.

In the bubble decade, making money as an end in itself boomed as a calling among students at elite universities like Harvard, siphoning off gifted undergraduates who might otherwise have been scientists, teachers, doctors, entrepreneurs, artists or inventors.

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.

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

Those who set out to serve both God and Mammon soon discover that there is no God.

To be clever enough to get all that money, one must be stupid enough to want it.

We are shallow because we have become enslaved by gross materialism, the glitter of gold and its equivalents, for which reason we think that only the material goods of this earth can satisfy us and we must therefore grab as much as can while we are able.

The corruption of the American soul is consumerism.

The curse of covetousness is that it destroys manhood by substituting money for character.

There is definitely an addiction to money that I have.

The worship of the golden calf of old has found a new and heartless image in the cult of money and the dictatorship of an economy which is faceless and lacking any truly human goal.

They who are of the opinion that Money will do everything, may very well be suspected to do everything for Money.