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Quotes About Greed

The Use of Money is all the Advantage there is in having Money.
~ Benjamin Franklin
Money has never made man happy,nor will it,there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants.
~ Benjamin Franklin
The poor have little, beggars none, the rich too much, enough not one.
~ Benjamin Franklin
He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.
~ Benjamin Franklin
He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money. Wealth is not his that has it, but his that enjoys it.
~ Benjamin Franklin
Progressives regard government as the white knight that protects the public from the greed of capitalists. If only.
~ Paul Craig Roberts
The government is corrupted. It's corrupted. It is not about regular people.
~ Steve Schmidt
Capitalism is an evil, and you cannot regulate evil.
~ Michael Moore
We simply have to reign in the piggish people and money-hungry lawyers who chase every ambulance they see and expect companies and individuals to pay for everything that goes wrong.
~ Mike Gallagher
'Dallas' hit a chord back in the late Seventies and Eighties because it was the age of greed: here you have this unapologetic character who is mean and nasty and ruthless and does it all with an evil grin. I think people related to JR back then because we all have someone we know exactly like him. Everyone in the world knows a JR.
~ Larry Hagman
Many rich people in China made their fortunes by damaging natural resources and building corrupt relations with the government.
~ Chen Guangbiao
There is an old saying that money can't buy happiness. If it could, I would buy myself four hits every game.
~ Pete Rose
I got a bit enamoured with bigger houses and things like that.
~ John Hewson
Some people, no matter how much money they have, they want to keep it for themselves.
~ Haim Saban
If any of us were faced with a huge bag of free money and very little accountability, it would be human nature that you would make the most of it.
~ Heather Brooke
I think it's in human nature to want to have more, to compete with the other and, at some level, to be dissatisfied if someone else has more than you.
~ Pico Iyer
I think we're all greedy. Who do you know who says, 'I have enough! I don't need any more!'? It's part of human nature.
~ Kevin Macdonald
Capitalism is the worst friend of humanity.
~ Evo Morales
Greed and Gain, grim guardians of the great god Mammon, continually cry in the ears of the poor, 'Give us your little ones!' And forever do the poor push out their little ones at the imperious ukase, feeding the children to a blind Hunger that is never filled.
~ Edwin Markham
Can people who hunger so desperately for what other people have ever have enough?
~ Alice Walker
Hunger for gold is made greater as more gold is acquired.
~ Prudentius
Money is wasted on the rich.
~ Gillian Flynn
She talked to me because we had the same chemicals in our blood: shame, anger, greed. Unjustified nostalgia.
~ Gillian Flynn
Millions of dollars later, and neither of them were happy. Money is wasted on the rich.
~ Gillian Flynn