Quotes About Greed

Well, rich people need stuff to buy, and socks are probably as good as anything.

She talked to me because we had the same chemicals in our blood: shame, anger, greed. Unjustified nostalgia. I

Little Libby Day just discovered her angle. Call it survival instinct, or call it what it was: greed.

People have to do awful things for the money.

Pure, raging, unbridled capitalism. Now, if they could just find ways to steal our raw materials, evade taxation, and not pay our workers their wages, our profit margin might begin to approach what those guys would consider minimally acceptable.

He lies ever upon his hoard, his heart jealous and mean. Never believe he has nodded because his eyes have closed. The dragon never sleeps.

It's a shame that money has to enter into everything.

That's the whole point of being rich," I explain patiently. "What good is it if nobody's jealous?

To want power is corruption already.

O God, forgive me - I am a proud, lustful, greedy man. I have loved authority too much. These people are martyrs - protecting me with their own lives. They deserve a martyr to care for them - not a man like me, who loves all the wrong things.

I thought with bitterness and envy: if one possesses a thing securely, one need never use it.

Our stupidity has turned the world into a hand grenade. Our greed has pulled the pin.

angrier and angrier, that he had to do such things because men were filled with arrogant greed, because some wished to rule with neither the wit nor the self-knowledge to see their inadequacies—and how many of their people would die.

Greed, apathy, hubris—even loyalty—all demand payment in the end. Storms will always come, and men will always do evil in the shadow of some other word.

The real trick in life is to want nothing, and to succeed in getting it. - Karla

but there's no nation uncorrupted. there's no system that's immune to the misuse of money.

And money, if the pile gets high enough, is something like a big political party: it does as much harm as it does good, it puts too much power in too few hands, and the closer you come to it the dirtier you get.

I know now that it's the sweet, sweating smell of hope, which is opposite of hate; and it's the sour, stifled smell of greed, which is the opposite of love.

They make a religion of being greedy.

MEN WAGE WARS for profit and principle, but they fight them for land and women.

A heart filled with greed, pride or hateful feelings is not free.

The world is run by one million evil men, ten million stupid men, and a hundred million cowards.

Fear is a poverty of Truth, and Greed is a poverty of Faith

Gold fires the eyes with a different kind and colour of greed. Money's almost always just a means to an end; but, for many men, gold is an end in itself, and their love for it is the kind of thing that can give love a bad name.