Greed Quotes

The worker picked up Pakhom’s spade, dug a grave, and buried him - six feet from head to heel, exact...

Well, there are people who eat the earth and eat all the people on it like in the Bible with the loc...

But men are so full of greed today, they'll sell anything for a little piece of money.

They listen to the music of idiots and amuse themselves with the sordid miseries of their businesses...

It does seem as if the more one gets the more one wants

Nonetheless, many people, and especially intellectuals, passionately loathe capitalism. As they see ...

Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed.

Last night I watched the weather channel, as is my habit. Elsewhere in the world there are floods: r...

Beautiful credit! The foundation of modern society. Who shall say that this is not the golden age of...

He pointed to the money, and said:"The love of it is the root of all evil. There it lies, the ancien...

The first thing you need to know about Goldman Sachs is that it's everywhere. The world's most power...

In a society governed passively by free markets and free elections, organized greed always defeats d...

They destroy lives with work. What for? They rob men of their lives. What for, I ask? My master—I lo...

There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it.

It seems to me that evil is a kind of ultimate greed, a greed that is so all-encompassing that it ca...

A newspaper is a public trust, and we will suffer as a society without them. It is not the Internet ...

Capitalism is against the things that we say we believe in - democracy, freedom of choice, fairness....

Capitalism is an organized system to guarantee that greed becomes the primary force of our economic ...

You want Paradise, you gotta build it on war, on blood, on envy and naked greed.

From the point of view of wealth, there is no difference between need, comfort and pleasure

I am afraid that our eyes are bigger than our stomachs, and that we have more curiosity than underst...

Well first of all, tell me: Is there some society you know that doesn’t run on greed? You think Russ...

Well first of all, tell me, is there some society you know of that doesn't run on greed? You think R...

Leadership is a privilege to better the lives of others. It is not an opportunity to satisfy persona...

The great thing about behavioural psychology and economics is that they help us to see that there ar...

The banking collapse was caused, more than anything, by bad government policy and the total failure ...

And then the queen wept with all her heart. Not for the cruel and greedy man who had warred and kill...

The Duke of Dunstable had one-way pockets. He would walk ten miles in the snow to chisel an orphan o...

Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the ...

The whole idea of government is this: If enough people get together and act in concert, they can tak...

[Conventional wisdom] very heavily tends to reflect the preferences and the interests of the elite.

So I had something to do, something I'd done, someplace to go, and something to look forward to. Tha...

Don't be taken in when they pat you paternally on the shoulder and say that there's no inequality wo...

Silence. It flashed from the woodwork and the walls; it smote him with an awful, total power, as if ...

Fear tends to manifest itself much more quickly than greed, so volatile markets tend to be on the do...

Wars and revolutions and battles, you see, are due simply and solely to the body and its desires. Al...

For many generations…they obeyed the laws and loved the divine to which they were akin…they reckoned...

To do what you imply would require nothing short of divine intervention. you must change man, not sy...

Men have looked away from themselves and at things so long that they have come to esteem the religio...

The stuff of nightmare is their plain bread. They butter it with pain. They set their clocks by deat...

I want an Oompa-Loompa!' screamed Veruca.

Sex and commerce are fine things, but man cannot live by Viagra and the Dow Jones alone. A life led ...

These are the four that are never content: that have never been filled since the dew began-Jacala's ...

Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; ...

Getting money is not all a man's business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business ...

There will always be a part, and always a very large part of every community, that have no care but ...

Men kill for many reasons, they steal but for one-greed.

I hate my country. There are so many rich people who don't share their shit. They're like spoiled li...

When morality comes up against profit, it is seldom that profit loses.

He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.

Are you not ashamed of caring so much for the making of money and for fame and prestige, when you ne...

I'm fat because I'm greedy, and if my mind is fat it's because I'm curious.

Why is it that so many people think all the answers are in their wallet?

It didn´t occur to me until later that there´s another truth, very simple: greed in a good cause is ...

Ambition if it feeds at all does so on the ambition of others.

When you stopped to think about it, he reflected, there weren't many things in life one truly needed...

There was no safety. There was no pride. All there was, was money. Everything became money, and mone...

[A]nd you may know how little God thinks of money by observing on what bad and contemptible characte...

Or can it be thought that they who heap up an useless mass of wealth, not for any use that it is to ...

The Utopians wonder how any man should be so much taken with the glaring doubtful lustre of a jewel ...

Income from labor [in the United States] is about as unequally distributed as has ever been observed...

All told, over the period 1932-1980, nearly half a century, the top federal income tax rate in the U...

Among the many other questions raised by the nebulous concept of “greed” is why it is a term applied...

The quality of one's emotional life changes over the years, doesn't it? But the basic instincts and ...

What is morality? It is not the following of enjoined rules of conduct. It is not a question of stan...

With ceremony, with forms of politeness and reassurance, they borrowed the waters of the River and i...

The quality of the will to power is, precisely, growth. Achievement is its cancellation. To be, the ...

Love that wants only to get, to possess, is a monstrous thing

You have succeeded in life when all you really WANT is only what you really NEED.

...we have something they want. Valuing knowledge above all else results in a lust for power, and th...

Genuflection before the idol or the dollar destroys the muscles which walk and the will that moves.

Our labour preserves us from three great evils -- weariness, vice, and want.

The best is the enemy of good.

There was somewhere, if you knew where to find it, some place where money could be made like drawing...

I will tell you the secret to getting rich on Wall Street. You try to be greedy when others are fear...

Be Fearful When Others Are Greedy and Greedy When Others Are Fearful

The most alarming sign of the state of our society now is that our leaders have the courage to sacri...

This society is driven by neurotic speed and force accelerated by greed and frustration of not being...

Things joined by profit, when pressed by misfortune and danger, will cast each other aside.

We already have - thanks to technology, development, skills, the efficiency of our work - enough res...

This was the time when the rush for the spoils filled a corner of the forest with the yelping of hou...

They again kissed each other and fell asleep. The patch of light on the ceiling now seemed to be ass...

Millions cheer the warriorspilling blood across the ringwhile the one who stands for peaceis ridicul...

Much wants more and loses all.

He had allowed the advertisers to multiply his wants; he had learned to equate happiness with posses...

When avarice takes the lead in a state, it is commonly the forerunner of its fall.

When avarice takes the lead in a state, it is commonly the forerunner of its fall.

...they are dazzled by all the money that they are being offered. That is what money does, Mma Ramot...

We may see the small Value God has for Riches, by the People he gives the

Ah, Caderousse,' said Andrea, 'how covetous you are! Two months ago you were dying with hunger.''The...

​Whatever we are given is supposed to be given away, not kept.

If men could regard the events of their own lives with more open minds, they would frequently discov...

Idle Jeffrey, when asking his cousin for money: "I fear I have not a mercenary tendency." The Chance...

Corruption,' Jordan Belfort believes, 'is endemic to human being. I mean, even men in monasteries - ...

Look at the orators in our republics; as long as they are poor, both state and people can only prais...

You [demagogues] are like the fishers for eels; in still waters they catch nothing, but if they thor...

[Y]ou possess all the attributes of a demagogue; a screeching, horrible voice, a perverse, crossgrai...

Holmes took up the stone and held it against the light. "It's a bonny thing," said he. "Just see how...

Most of the time common stocks are subject to irrational and excessive price fluctuations in both di...

Let us wage a moral and political war against the billionaires and corporate leaders, on Wall Street...