In honor of the United States’ insanely immature economic policy-making, this week’s quotes are devoted to debt, thrift, greed, and indecision.

There is a sufficiency in the world for man’s need but not for man’s greed.
- Gandhi

To greed, all nature is insufficient.
- Seneca

Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we’re looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn’t test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power.
- P.J. O’Rourke

Greed, like the love of comfort, is a kind of fear.
- Cyril Connolly

Rulers do not reduce taxes to be kind. Expediency and greed create high taxation, and normally it takes an impending catastrophe to bring it down.
- Charles Adams

The covetous man is ever in want.
- Horace

We tend to forget that happiness doesn’t come as a result of getting something we don’t have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have.
- Frederick Keonig

There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up.
- Oscar Wilde

You can never get enough of what you don’t need to make you happy.
- Eric Hoffer

There must be more to life than having everything!
- Maurice Sendak

Greed: A word commonly used by liberals, low achievers, anti-capitalists and society’s losers to denigrate, shame and discredit those who have acquired superior job skills and decision-making capabilities and who, through the application of those job skills have accumulated wealth.
- Neal Boortz

The gap in our economy is between what we have and what we think we ought to have – and that is a moral problem, not an economic one.
- Paul Heyne