Greed Quotes

… human needs are finite, but human greed is not …

Just as sex is a God-given instinct for the prolongation of the human race, so the desire for proper...

There is no fire like passion, there is no shark like hatred, there is no snare like folly, there is...

We stress humanity, and this is done at considerable cost. We can't have a lot of dramatics that oth...

The angry men know that this golden age (of fossil fuels) has gone; but they cannot find the words f...

Terrible times breed terrible things, my lord.

She never forgets a slight, real or imagined. She takes caution for cowardice and dissent for defian...

The main obstacle to further progress on the resource curse is China, and to a lesser extent India.

Ayn Rand's 'philosophy' is nearly perfect in its immorality, which makes the size of her audience al...

A current pejorative adjective is narcissistic. Generally, a narcissist is anyone better looking tha...

Of all the icy blasts that blow on love, a request for money is the most chilling.

The best client is a scared millionaire.

And what, O Queen, are those things that are dear to a man? Are they not bubbles? Is not ambition bu...

Still another danger is represented by those who, paying lip service to democracy and the common wel...

In an effort to eliminate the possibility of any rival growing up, some monopolists would sacrifice ...

If we define an American fascist as one who in case of conflict puts money and power ahead of human ...

We have no festival, nor procession, nor ceremony, not excepting our cattle-shows and so-called Than...

Do you want to know the cause of war? It is capitalism, greed, the dirty hunger for dollars. Take aw...

No stone was laid upon· another with love or reverence; no street was laid for dance or joy. One thi...

The writer of this legend then recordsIts ghostly application in these words:The image is the Advers...

I disagree. You want to bring back someone that you've lost. You might want money. Maybe you want wo...

All right people, listen up! If you've got a family back home waiting for you or if you just want to...

For avarice begins where poverty ends.

Doing nothing for others is the undoing of ourselves.

he who is greedy is always in want

He who is greedy is always in want.

I am convinced that imprisonment is a way of pretending to solve the problem of crime. It does nothi...

No More Games. No More Bombs. No More Walking. No More Fun. No More Swimming. 67. That is 17 years p...

Oral Roberts is a greed-crazed white-trash lunatic who should have been hung upside down from a tele...

The point is, there is no feasible excuse for what are, for what we have made of ourselves. We have ...

I did NOT have three thousand pairs of shoes, I had one thousand and sixty.

The town is mobbed out with Saturday shoppers looking for Christmas bargains. You can almost breathe...

Until a few months ago we had a code of honor, and even the worst ruffians behaved with decency. You...

We have had enough of the old men and the money-counters!" And people further off took up the cry: "...

There is more in you of good than you know, child of the kindly West. Some courage and some wisdom, ...

If it weren't for greed, intolerance, hate, passion and murder, you would have no works of art, no g...

No one would argue that we owe a debt of gratitude to the Goliath Corporation. They helped us to reb...

We risk all in being too greedy.

Beyond all explanations which a good brain can give, why do we choose the worse and not the better, ...

The transformation of the world is brought about by the transformation of oneself, because the self ...

You have to understand that only the very worst end up here: the ones whose anger made them kill, an...

We are living the American Dream, which is, of course, to benefit from someone else’s misfortune.

Wealth is not without its advantages and the case to the contrary, although it has often been made, ...

Capitalism is the extraordinary belief that the nastiest of men for the nastiest of motives will som...

These temple destroyers, devotees of ravaging commercialism, seem to have a perfect contempt for Nat...

God is not glorified when we keep for ourselves (no matter how thankfully) what we ought to be using...

God is not glorified when we keep for ourselves (no matter how thankfully) what we ought to be using...

God is not glorified when we keep for ourselves (no matter how thankfully) what we ought to be using...

God is not glorified when we keep for ourselves (no matter how thankfully) what we ought to be using...

There is no wealth but life.

Then the hard, dry Spaniards came exploring through, greedy and realistic, and their greed was for g...

And the great owners, who had become through the might of their holdings both more and less than men

Well, we all got to make a livin'.""Yeah," Tom said. "On'y I wisht they was some way to make her 'th...

We're sorry. It's not us. It's the monster. The bank isn't a man. The bank isn't like a man.Yes, but...

We've had enough." He took back the report and jammed it under his arm. "We've had a bellyful, in fa...

Take taking from those that give & nobody anywhere will need any more such gifts.

That same night, I wrote my first short story. It took me thirty minutes. It was a dark little tale ...

In China the egalitarian movement came not just from Zhu's vision, but also the Taoist ideas of bala...

So the unwanting soulsees what's hidden,and the ever-wanting soulsees only what it wants.

Manifest plainness,Embrace simplicity,Reduce selfishness,Have few desires.

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...