# Quote — Jack Vance, The Green Pearl

> “I would define ‘avarice’ as a consequence of the human estate: a condition arising from turbulence and inequality. In none of the paradises, where conditions are no doubt optimum, does ‘avarice’ exert force. Here, we are men struggling toward perfection and ‘avarice’ is a station along the way.”

- Author: [Jack Vance](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jack-vance.md)
- Book: [The Green Pearl](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jack-vance/the-green-pearl.md)
- Page: 545
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Jack_Vance#The_Green_Pearl_(1985)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/jack-vance/the-green-pearl/i-would-define

## More from this book

> I have transcended that phase in my intellectual growth where I discover humour in simple freakishness. What exists is real; therefore it is tragic, since wherever lives must die. Only fantasy, the vapours rising from sheer nonsense, can now excite my laughter.

p. 430 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jack-vance/the-green-pearl/i-have-transcended.md)

> “If ambush I must, then ambush I will,” Aillas muttered to himself. “A fig for chivalry, at least until the war is won.”

p. 518 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jack-vance/the-green-pearl/if-ambush-i-must.md)

> Dango, Pume, Thwither: down with Visbhume’s breeches; let him hold his backside at the ready.

p. 505 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jack-vance/the-green-pearl/dango-pume-thwither.md)