Quotes About Greed

Lust and greed are more gullible than innocence.

We can never get enough of what we don't really need.

There is a mistaken notion that wealth makes people content. It does the opposite, generally. It stirs a hunger in many - and no matter what they eat, they will never be full.

But when we live, we believe that we have a right to everything in the universe - that everything is ours to touch.

I'm not interested in helping anybody. I want to make money.

One puts oneself above all and crushes everything in one's way to get the best for oneself.

Certainly, I approve of it. Our culture has sunk into a bog of materialism. Men have lost all spiritual values in their pursuit of material production and technological trickery. They're too comfortable. They will return to a nobler life if we teach them to bear privations. So we ought to place a limit upon their material greed.

We were defeated by the greed, the selfishness and the base, animal nature of men. It was the eternal conflict between spirit and matter, between soul and body. They would not renounce their bodies, which was all we asked of them.

I saw that any man's desire for money he could not earn was regarded as a righteous wish, but if he earned it, it was damned as greed. - Francisco d'Anconia

you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing—when you see that money is flowing to those who deal, not in goods, but in favors—when you see that men get richer by graft and by pull than by work, and your laws don't protect you against them, but protect them against you—when you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice—you may know that your society is doomed.

loafing failures—I saw the labor unions who won every claim against me, by reason of my ability to make their livelihood possible—I saw that any man's desire for money he could not earn was regarded as a righteous wish, but if he earned it, it was damned as greed—I saw the politicians who winked at me, telling me not to worry, because I could just work a little harder and outsmart them all.

Enquanto pessoas como o senhor não descobrirem que o dinheiro é a origem de todo o bem, estarão caminhando para sua própria destruição.

La libertad que buscas es libertad del hecho de que si tu riqueza la hiciste robando, eres un ladrón, no importa cuánto dones a la caridad o cuántas plegarias recites;

I saw that any man's desire for money he could not earn was regarded as a righteous wish, but if he earned it, it was damned as greed

Look, boys," he said wearily. "I know what you want. You want to eat my mills and have them, too. And all I want to know is this: what makes you think it's possible?

La utopía de la codicia

sustituiremos la aristocracia del dinero por... —... la aristocracia del pillaje

there are people in the world who think only about themselves. They don't care what happens to other people so long as they get what they want. They put other people down to make themselves feel important.

I do think at a certain point you've made enough money.

This prompted Reggie to ask me how the Ming dynasty finally ended. "Internal strife," I said. "Power struggles, corruption, peasants starving 'cause the rich got greedy or just didn't care…" "So, the usual," Reggie said. I nodded. "The usual.

He got born in the historical moment of no more free lunch. Friends will probably count more than money, because wanting too much stuff is going to be toxic.

It was pretty clear there would be no stopping the Bullhorn, or someone like him. Here was the earthquake, the fire, flood, and melting permafrost, with everyone still grabbing for bricks to put in their pockets rather than walking out of the wreck and looking for light

He's legitimizing personal greed as the principal religion of our country.

might call it a great passion. When the true name of what we're dealing with is greed, or lust. We all have the special talent of believing in a falsehood, and believing it devoutly, when we want it to be true.