Lust is to the other passions what the nervous fluid is to life; it supports them all, lends strength to them all ambition, cruelty, avarice, revenge, are all founded on lust.
'Maneater' is about N.Y.C. in the '80s. It's about greed, avarice, and spoiled riches.
Avarice, the sphincter of the heart.
There's something unique about the United States, a sense of individual rights and freedoms, and a sense of social and civic responsibility that we contributed to so much of the world. We lost that mission in the 1980s and 1990s, when we entered a gilded age, and the culture of individualism became a culture of avarice.
Pride, envy, avarice - these are the sparks have set on fire the hearts of all men.
For at least another hundred years we must pretend to ourselves and to every one that fair is foul and foul is fair; for foul is useful and fair is not. Avarice and usury and precaution must be our gods for a little longer still.
We are a puny and fickle folk. Avarice, hesitation, and following are our diseases.
Avarice has ruined more souls than extravagance.
Purity engenders Wisdom, Passion avarice, and Ignorance folly, infatuation and darkness.
Five enemies of peace inhabit with us - avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride; if these were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace.