Quotes About Greed

Once, under the wise rule of the Senate and the protection of the Jedi Knights, the Republic throve and grew. But as often happens when wealth and power pass beyond the admirable and attain the awesome, then appear those evil ones who have greed to match.

There were people in the country who, when it came into their hands, degraded it by locking it up in a chest, and then it grew diseased and was called mammon, and bred all sorts of quarrels; but when first it left the king's hands it never made any but friends, and the air of the world kept it clean.

Yes, grannie, you are right. You remember how old dame Hope wouldn't take the money you offered her, and dropped such a disdainful courtesy. It was SO greedy of her, wasn't it?

But it is not the rich man only who is under the dominion of things; they too are slaves who, having no money, are unhappy from the lack of it. The man who is ever digging his grave is little better than he who already lies mouldering in it. The money the one has, the money the other would have, is in each the cause of an eternal stupidity.

Somehow it seemed as though the farm had grown richer without making the animals themselves any richer—except, of course, for the pigs and the dogs.

Page after page, advert after advert. Lipsticks, undies, tinned food, patent medicines, slimming cures, face-creams. A sort of cross-section of the money world. A panorama of ignorance, greed, vulgarity, snobbishness, whoredom and disease.

Animal Farm is not a book about how pigs—animals—when bestowed with power start to behave like men. It is a book about how men, when given power over other men, start to behave like pigs.

Essentially, a 'smart' hotel is a place where a hundred people toil like devils in order that two hundred may pay through the nose for things they do not really want.

The Americans always go one better on any kind of beastliness, whether it is ice-cream soda, racketeering or theosophy.

A smart hotel is a place where 100 people toil like devils in order that 200 may pay through the nose for things they do not really want.

There are two kinds of avaricious person—the bold, grasping type who will ruin you if he can, but who never looks twice at twopence, and the petty miser who has not the enterprise actually to MAKE money, but who will always, as the saying goes, take a farthing from a dunghill with his teeth.

You can possess money, or you can despise money; the one fatal thing is to worship money and fail to get it.

the oligarchs have to make use of the masses without significantly raising the general standard of living

For money buys all virtues. Money suffereth long and is kid, is not puffed up, doth not behave unseemly, seeketh not her own

Parecía, de alguna manera, que la finca se había enriquecido sin hacer más ricos a los propios animales... excepto, claro está, a los cerdos y a los perros.

algún modo parecía como si la granja se hubiera enriquecido sin enriquecer a los animales mismos; exceptuando, naturalmente, los cerdos y los perros. Tal vez eso se debiera en parte al hecho de haber tantos cerdos

All men are burdened with more desires than they can gratify. Because of my wealth thinkest thou I may gratify every desire? 'Tis a false idea.

Wealth that comes quickly goeth the same way.

Only a great desire for wealth. Besides this, nothing.

Only a great desire for wealth.

KIRBY: A man can't give up his business. GRANDPA: Why not? You've got all the money you need. You can't take it with you.

And that, against this: the king-types who would snatch the apple from your hand and claim to have grown it, even though what they had, had come to them intact, or been gained unfairly (the nature of that unfairness perhaps being just that they had been born stronger, more clever, more energetic than others), and who, having seized the apple, would eat it so proudly, they seemed to think that not only had they grown it, but had invented the very idea of fruit, too

Siamo andati via di casa, ci siamo sposati, siamo diventati genitori, abbiamo scoperto che il seme della grettezza fioriva anche dentro di noi.

Cuando un negocio fracasa, miles de personas se quedan sin empleo o endeudadas; sus directos se escabullen llevándose millones en bonos y en fulgurantes apretones de mano. Y, sin embargo, a ninguno de estos rufianes, que son los responsables, se les escupe, ¡por no decir se les fusila!