Quotes About Greed

I do not think money is the root of all evil, but I know it makes an effective fertilizer.

Man's many desires are like the small metal coins he carries about in his pocket. The more he has the more they weight him down.

I never yet touched a fig leaf that didn't turn into a price tag.

There are evils, as someone has pointed out, that have the ability to survive identification and go on for ever -- money, for instance, or war.

There's almost nothing personal in success. Success is always money's own success.

In this world laws are written for the lofty aim of "the common good" and then acted out in life on the basis of the common greed.

The setting for the drama of change has never varied. Mankind has been and is divided into three parts: the Haves, the Have-Nots, and the Have-a-Little, Want Mores. On

The downfall of the industry seems to actually be good for art. I think the industry will find their way once the focus shifts from its greed-based origins, downsizes, and begins to support creative visions that speak to our times and shifting ideals.

Tony Montana Me, I want what's coming to me. Manny Oh, well what's coming to you Tony Montana The world, Chico, and everything in it.

It is one thing to be judgmental; it is entirely different to say greed is wrong or that sexual sins are wrong, and saying so is not judgmentalism.

Recalls The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, the better work of Jim Thompson (The Grifters; After Dark, My Sweet) and Thomas Berger's tales of small-town souls who succumb to murderous mayhem.

Sen ve ben gidip ne bulursak yaÄŸmalayaca??z!" "Bak bu kulaÄŸa tehlikeli geliyor," dedi Jean. "BaÅŸkalar? için öyle olabilir. Centilmen Piçler içinse, eh, bu bizim iÅŸimiz." "Bizim mi?" "Bizim.

You're one-third bad intentions, one-third pure avarice, and one-eighth sawdust. What's left, I'll credit, must be brains.

Time passes and human greed outlasts even the eternal.

The miserable misery of the miser

Money has a long and sinister reach. It slips into the system, changes hands And starts to eat away at the foundations Of everything we stand for.

Any time there is a lot of money or ego involved, people tend to behave badly.

He said to me once that most of the time people use the word love as just another way to show off they're hungry. The way he said it went something like: Glorify their appetites.

After all the time we [people] spent saying look, war is a stupid way to solve stuff - oh, you're not trying to solve stuff. You're trying to make money.

You're so consumed with how much you get, you waste your time with hate and regret.

For the children with their greedy little mouths represent the future, which like time itself will devour all now alive.

There is no such thing as material covetousness. All covetousness is spiritual. ...Any so-called material thing that you want is merely a symbol: you want it not for itself, but because it will content your spirit for the moment.

Honesty is the best policy - when there is money in it.

Nothing incites to money-crimes like great poverty or great wealth. - More Maxims of Mark, Johnson, 1927