Quotes About Greed

Humanity is at a crossroads. We can continue down the current path of greed, consumerism, oligarchy, poverty, war, racism, and environmental degradation. Or we can lead the world in moving in a very different direction.

we are living in a time where a handful of people have wealth beyond comprehension.

Our struggle is against a system where the top twenty-five hedge fund managers in the United States pocket more money than 350,000 kindergarten teachers combined. When did we the people make that determination? When did we decide that a drug company executive at Moderna can collect a "golden parachute" valued at $926 million for not working, while EMT workers who work around the clock to save lives make as little as $40,000 a year?

This country has reached a point in its history where it must determine whether we truly embrace the inspiring words in our Declaration of Independence, "that all men are created equal" and "endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights." Or do we simply accept that we will continue to be ruled by a small number of extremely wealthy and powerful people who are motivated by greed and could care less for the general welfare?

Though the rich of this earth find no difficulty in creating misery, they can't bear to see it.

It is easier to rob by setting up a bank than by holding up a bank clerk.

When the waters poured into Atlantis, the rich men still screamed for their slaves.

And I did work out something: that the rich of the earth indeed create misery, but they cannot bear to see it. They are weaklings and fools just like you. As long as they have enough to eat and can grease their floors with butter so that even the crumbs that fall from your table grow fat, they can't look with indifference on a man collapsing from hunger - although, of course, it must be in front of their house that he collapses.

Though the rich of this earth find no difficulty in creating misery, they can't bear to see it.

Dogsborough: That stock-offering was like the bowl of salted nuts They put on the bar for free: satisfies your hunger for nothing, But leaves you with a costly thirst.

Die Rettung kleiner Nachen Wird sofort in die Tiefe gezogen: Zu viele Versinkende Greifen gierig nach ihm.

Es curioso. Cuando se oye hablar a los señorones, sólo hacen la guerra por el temor de Dios y por todo lo que es bueno y hermoso. Pero si bien se mira no son tan tontos y hacen la guerra por la ganancia.

It is preoccupation with possession, more than anything else, that prevents men from living freely and nobly.

It is the preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly.

Those who want to blame all of Enron's woes on the greedy former CFO claim that Enron was a good business brought down by Andy Fastow. But that was never true. Ultimately, Enron was a bad business that was, for a time, propped up by Andy Fastow.

Man's many desires are like the small metal coins he carries about in his pocket. The more he has the more they weigh him down.

Woe unto them that join house to house, that lay field to field, till there be no place that they may be placed alone in the midst of the earth.

So are the ways of every one that is greedy of gain; which taketh away the life of the owners thereof.

The greedy stir up conflict, but those who trust in the LORD will prosper.

Watch out! Be on your guard against all kinds of greed; life does not consist in an abundance of possessions.

MONEY, n. A blessing that is of no advantage to us excepting when we part with it.

No win, no fee, no basis in reality. Just a room above a minicab office in Acton and a steady stream of greedy simpletons whose delusion is only matched by their clumsiness.

Politics are the means by which they who can't or won't steal from those who can and do.

This is where we are at right now, as a whole. No one is left out of the loop. We are experiencing a reality based on a thin veneer of lies and illusions. A world where greed is our God and wisdom is sin, where division is key and unity is fantasy, where the ego-driven cleverness of the mind is praised, rather than the intelligence of the heart.