Quotes About Greed

Love is one of the most powerful motivations there is. Love, hate, greed: the holy trinity of murder.

She told me the darkness was greedy and light was fleeting." "What does it mean?

Having much makes us greedy.

Ambition is the way in which a vulgar man aspires.

Jeremy Beaumont-Jones had been lucky enough to be born rich. He wasn't in the mad oligarch class but once you're past a certain point, the sheer weight of your money sucks in wealth like a financial singularity. If you're sensible enough not to blow it on race horses, cocaine or musical theatre, then it becomes a perpetual-motion money making machine.

Do you really think that you're some sort of superior creature? Do you think that your ability to make money, to steal and lie and murder, places you above normal men?

What is it, really, though, but a haunting—the ancient dead disturbed from slumber, punishing us for our greed and blindness, our restless lack of reverence? What is it but the past come back, and time unhinged, collapsing?

Which is to say, the same things that will likely do us in: the greed and blindness of the few, the hungers of the many, a fatal inattention to the fragile web of life on which our existence here depends.

Whilst that for which all virtue now is sold,And almost every vice—almighty gold.

The covetous man never has money. The prodigal will have none shortly.

Mischiefs feed / Like beasts, till they be fat, and then they bleed.

He was small, thin, greedy, clever, morally void, and monstrously bent. March "took corruption for granted,37 and used it casually and openly." He had been imprisoned for bribery and escaped to France, and by 1939 he was the richest, and dodgiest, man in Spain, nicknamed "the last pirate of the Mediterranean

Can you understand what the rats are saying?" "No. But I can kill them." "Why?" "Because they are never satisfied. They are like bad politicians and imperialists and rich people." "How?" "They eat up property. They eat up everything in sight. And one day when they are very hungry they will eat us up.

So what is the moral case for capitalism? It lies in recognition that socialism isn't a great idea gone wrong — it's an evil philosophy in action. It isn't driven by altruism; it's driven by greed and jealousy.

Greed is a basic part of animal nature. Being against it is like being against breathing or eating. It means nothing.

The people who did the collateralized mortgage obligations, sold them to pension funds, then sold them short, then bought credit default swap insurance on them, are just amazing. They are a law unto themselves.

Avarice, ambition, lust, etc., are nothing but species of madness.

Por qué lo que no se tiene se desea, y lo que se tiene se desprecia?

Poverty wants some things, Luxury many things, Avarice all things

Our necessities never equal our wants

Avarice and happiness never saw each other, how then should they become acquainted.

He that is the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.

Money never made a man happy yet, nor will it. There is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more a man has, the more he wants. Instead of its filling a vacuum, it makes one.

He does not possess wealth; it possesses him.