Hoarding Mentality Quotes

If we were to gain God's perspective, even for a moment, and were to look at the way we go through life accumulating and hoarding and displaying our things, we would have the same feelings of horror and pity that any sane person has when he views people in an asylum endlessly beating their heads against the wall.

People who are greedy have extraordinary capacities for waste-they must, they take in too much.

The character of covetousness, is what a man generally acquires more through some niggardliness or ill grace in little and inconsiderable things, than in expenses of any consequence.

Americans are apocalyptic by nature. The reason why is that we've always had so much, so we live in deadly fear that people are going to take it away from us.

The covetous person is full of fear; and he or she who lives in fear will ever be a slave.

The miser robs himself.

Possessions are usually diminished by possession.

Everything that Mr Smallweed's grandfather ever put away in his mind was a grub at first, and is a grub at last. In all his life he has never bred a single butterfly.

People who don't have much get ugly about giving up the little they have left.