#2,976

Where Christianity disappears, greed, envy, and lust invent a thousand ideologies to justify themselves.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 475

#2,948

The problem of increasing inflation could be solved, if the modern mentality did not put up insurmountable resistance against any attempt to restrain human greed.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 471

#2,927

The left claims that the guilty party in a conflict is not the one who covets another’s goods but the one who defends his own.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 467

#2,434

In the modern world it is not contrary ideas that confront each other but mere candidates for the possession of the same goods.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 392

#2,433

Socialism makes use of greed and misery; capitalism makes use of greed and the vices.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 392

#2,297

The economic inflation at the end of this century is a moral phenomenon.
The result, and at the same time the punishment, of egalitarian greed.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 373

#2,228

Natural disasters devastate a region less effectively than the alliance of greed and technology.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 362

#2,135

Victorious revolutions have been outbursts of greed. Only defeated revolutions tend to be insurrections of the oppressed.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 348

#2,067

What the economist calls the “inflation of costs” is an outbreak of greed.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 335

#2,060

The carelessness with which contemporary humanity is squandering its goods appears to indicate that it does not expect to have descendants.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 334

#2,051

To liberate man is to subject him to greed and sex.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 332

#2,016

The only man who should speak of wealth or power is one who did not extend his hand when they were within his reach.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 328

#1,843

Whoever who does not agitate without rest in order to satisfy his greed always feels a little guilty in modern society.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 302

#1,402

Everything can be sacrificed to the misery of the people.
Nothing should be sacrificed to its greed.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 238

#1,370

Artificially fomenting greed, in order to become rich by satisfying it, is the unforgiveable sin of capitalism.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 234

#1,369

Modern society only respects science as an inexhaustible provider of what it covets.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 234

#1,280

Let us not attribute to the intellect the catastrophes caused by the covetousness that blinds us.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 221

#847

It would be easier to resolve modern problems, if, for example, it were possible to sustain the Utopian fantasy that what causes the multiplication of plastic objects is only the manufacturer’s commercial greed, and not the idiotic admiration of the presumed buyers.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 155

#622

The upper class in society is the class for which economic activity is a means, the middle class that for which it is an end.
The bourgeois does not aspire to be rich, but to be richer.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 115

#561

The businessman’s greed surprises me less than the seriousness with which he satisfies it.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 106