Quotes About Greed

Virtue never has been as respectable as money.

Y la iglesia era sabia, sutil y conocía muchas maneras de esquilmar una oveja, o una nación.

the dollar their god, how to get it their religion.

What at all can we ever really possess?

Sure, she loved horses, she enjoyed racing, but she abhorred the racing business; its wastage, its overbreeding. Its greedy girth of underbelly. It was something like a beautiful whore, and she'd seen it devoid of make-up.

No crime in wanting a little more

Only after the last tree has been cut down. Only after the last river has been poisoned. Only after the last fish has been caught. Only then will you find that money cannot be eaten.

There are no grand plans, no master strategies, just the lust for power, the insane addictive desire to accumulate more and more because too much is never enough.

I think I'm greedy, but I'm not greedy for money - because that can be a burden - I'm greedy for an exciting life. I want it to be exciting all the time, and I get it, actually. On the other hand, I can find excitement, I admit, in raindrops falling on a puddle and a lot of people wouldn't. I intend to have it exciting until the day I fall over.

When an Englishman once has your property in his hand, then he is like a monkey that has its hands full of pumpkin seeds - if you don't beat him to death he will never let go.' He

Money is human happiness in the abstract; and so the man who is no longer capable of enjoying such happiness in the concrete, sets his whole heart on money.

Money is human happiness in abstracto; consequently he who is no longer capable of happiness in concreto sets his whole heart on money.

Avutia este ca apa sarata: cu cat bei cu-atit ti-e mai sete.

Need was a warehouse that could accommodate a considerable amount of cruelty.

He was a candid man, the SP: 'See, ma'am, frankly speaking this problem can't be solved by us police or military. The problem with these tribals is they don't understand greed. Unless they become greedy there's no hope for us. I have told my boss, remove the force and instead put a TV in every home. Everything will be automatically sorted out.

Like cities. Fizzy, effervescent, simulating the illusion of life while the planet they had plundered died around them.

Laten we op zoek gaan naar 'vreugde' in plaats van naar eerlijk voedsel en schone lucht en een gezondere toekomst op een bewoonbare planeet! Alsof geluk volstaat om ons te beschermen tegen de gevolgen van winst-waanzin.

Tengo tendencia a la envidia. Es una de mis tres emociones por defecto, los otros son la codicia y la ira. También he experimentado la compasión y la generosidad, pero sólo fugazmente y por lo general en estado de ebriedad, por lo que no tengo mucho recuerdo sobre eso.

So this was where lust was satisfied. If I'd been an old-time miner I'd have asked for my gold nugget back.

What is cheaper than lust or of less value than alchemy or aphrodisiacs?

The world is perishing from an orgy of self-sacrificing.

So you think that money is the root of all evil. Have you ever asked what is the root of all money?

Money is the barometer of society's virtue.

You can't have your cake and let your neighbour eat it too.