Excessive Accumulation Quotes

All amassing of wealth or hoarding of wealth above and beyond one's legitimate needs is theft.

The crazy thing is I got all of these shoes, and probably 80 percent of them I've never worn before. I've worn all the glasses. I sleep in them, bend them up a little bit. Glasses are on all the time except when I'm at practice or at work.

Bees are sometimes drowned in the honey which they collectso some writers are lost in their collected learning.

You have found that you were more secure before you accumulated so much. See what greed has imposed on you: You have filled your house and now you fear burglars. You have hoarded money and lost sleep. See what greed has commanded you: "Do this!" And you did it.

Some men make fortunes, but not to enjoy them for, blinded by avarice, they live to make fortunes.

I suggest that we are thieves in a way. If I take anything that I do not need for my own immediate use, and keep it, I thieve it from somebody else. ... Nature produces enough for our wants from day to day, and if only every-body took enough for himself and nothing more, there would be no pauperism in this world, there would be no man dying of starvation in this world. But so long as we have got this inequality, so long we are thieving.

I'm carrying the weight of all the useless junk and modern man accumulates.

I'm not technically rich, but I do have a lot of s**t that I don't need, that I refuse to share with others.

Woe unto them that join house to house, that lay field to field, till there be no place.

My parents were hoarders before hoarding was cool

The avarice of the old: it's absurd to increase one's luggage as one nears the journey's end.

To pile up honey upon sugar, and sugar upon honey, to an interminable tedious sweetness.

In America, I think we just keep adding, and that's our problem. We almost never subtract. We keep adding these boondoggles, and these violations of the basic principles of equal rights - certain people have more rights than others - it's like "Animal Farm." The pig says that we all have equal rights, but some have more rights than others.

What kind of a maniac needed over five thousand plates?