Quotes About Greed

Wrack and waste, the Kleptocracy actually did it.

Even in the heart of the empire, corruption spreads.

Nobody speaks the truth when there's something they must have.

Fear made people greedy and therefore selfish; that small minority who honestly did not care for themselves in that way, who could sincerely say that money was unimportant to them, almost always had no dependants.

All you ever care about is money. That's all that matters to you! The only thing you understand is money, what a thing is worth in money.

According to an English seaman named Aaron Thomas, who sailed to Newfoundland on the HMS Boston: If you come for their Feathers you do not give yourself the trouble of killing them, but lay hold of one and pluck the best of the Feathers. You then turn the poor Penguin adrift, with his skin half naked and torn off, to perish at his leisure.

I pledge allegiance, to the marketplace, of the United States of America. TM. And to the conglomerates, for which we shill, one nation under Exxon-Mobile/Halliburton/Boeing/Walmart, nonrefundable, with litter and junk mail for all!

And I thought how when William came into money from his grandfather who had profited from the war, and Catherine was still alive at that time, she had said very little about it. But she did say to me, lying on the tangerine couch, not long after this had happened, "It's dirty money. He should give it all away." But William did not give it all away; he became very rich.

peace without victory for the right; a peace designed to let wrong triumph; a peace championed in neutral countries by the apostles of timidity and greed.

For, contrary to the common opinion, it is the wealthy who are greedy of wealth; while the populace are to be gained by talking to them about liberty, their unknown god. And so much are they enchanted by the words liberty, freedom, and such like, that the wise can go to the poor, rob them of what little they have, dismiss them with a hearty kick, and win their hearts and their votes for ever, if only they will assure them that the treatment which they have received is called liberty.

You know, a lot of people are just interested in, in building a company so they can make money and get out.

We find ourselves in the last of the three generations history chooses to repeat every now and then. The first generation needs a god, and so they invent one. The second erects temples to that god and tries to imitate him. And the third uses the marble from those temples to build brothels in which to worship their own greed, lust, and dishonesty. And that is why gods and heroes are always, inevitably, succeeded by mediocrities, cowards, and imbeciles.

conocía de sobra... los motivos simples por los que un hombre con las dosis adecuadas de fanatismo, rencor o ánimo de lucro mercenario podía matar indiscriminadamente.

Así podrá instruirse y estudiar leyes para sangrar de su último maravedí a los pleiteantes; como hacen vuestras mercedes los abogados, escribanos y otras gentes de mal vivir.

La sonrisa de quien poseía una confianza inquebrantable en la crueldad, la estupidez y la codicia de los seres humanos.

El dinero es la llave que abre la puerta oscura de los hombres.

recaudadores, magistrados, escribanos y sanguijuelas sin recato, y las grandes hazañas dieron paso a la dominación sin escrúpulos, los andrajos, el bandidaje y la miseria, que abonarían disturbios y sublevaciones sangrientas

Sonrió también Falcó, cómplice. La sonrisa de quien poseía una confianza inquebrantable en la crueldad, la estupidez y la codicia de los seres humanos.

Éste es un país rico, desde luego, dotado por la naturaleza. Pero todo lo chupa el desagüe de la vanidad, la codicia y la injusticia.

pues nunca, que yo sepa, hubo verbos que al más avaro le dolieran en la bolsa.

the miser is counting his gold pieces, unaware of Death, who holds two clear symbols: an hourglass and a pitchfork." "Why a pitchfork and not a scythe?" "Because Death reaps but the Devil harvests

Greed can destroy so much," Sir Montague nodded.

Love of money, he said, was the root of all evil. That was in the New Testament. In Saint Paul's letters to Timothy, if one wanted to be precise.

In time of war the loudest patriots are the greatest profiteers.