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> # What must be the wealth that avarice, aided by power, cannot exhaust!

[James Otis](https://quotesby.net/James-Otis)\#10

[Power](https://quotesby.net/topics/power/)[Vice](https://quotesby.net/topics/vice/)[Wealth](https://quotesby.net/topics/wealth/)

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## About this quote

What does it mean?Greed combined with power can deplete even immense wealth. No resource is infinite against avarice.In plain termsGreed and power can exhaust any wealth.What can you take from it?Avarice plus power depletes resources.

### Where it applies

- economic critique
- power analysis
- resource management

### Putting it to work

- limit greed
- monitor power
- sustain resources

### Questions to consider

- What is truly inexhaustible?
- How much power is too much?

### Another view

It does not address how to stop such exhaustion.

## More from James Otis

1. > Taxation without representation is tyranny.

[Permalink to quote \#9](https://quotesby.net/James-Otis/9/ "Permalink to quote 9")
2. > It is a clear truth that those who every day barter away other men's liberty will soon care little for their own.

[Permalink to quote \#8](https://quotesby.net/James-Otis/8/ "Permalink to quote 8")
3. > If we are not represented, we are slaves.

[Permalink to quote \#7](https://quotesby.net/James-Otis/7/ "Permalink to quote 7")

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