Quotes About Greed

We hebben een vijand en zijn naam is Shell.

Unless it is cured sometimes greediness grows. Where it finally stops, alas, nobody knows.

The opposite of corporate greed is personal generosity. Government policies that enable the former and prevent the latter are both worthy of protest.

I wound up becoming an A&R man at London Records in the 1990s, during the boom of Britpop, the last great gold rush of the music industry. I saw incredible greed and terrible behaviour. I was greedy and terribly behaved.

And a recipe on this page. It says 'Of apples with black skin and white flesh: to fill the stomach with greed unto Death.

And so the feast-day of the nativity of the Christ Child approached with its usual panic, uproar, and greed.

Erasmus's The Praise of Folly. According to a footnote, the argument of the growing heap is: If ten coins are not enough to make a man rich, what if you add one coin? What if you add another? Finally, you will have to say that no one can be rich unless one coin can make him so.

AMBITION – Always preceded by "mad" when it lacks nobility.

Argent. Cause de tout le mal.

Bourse (la). Thermomètre de l'opinion publique. Boursiers. Tous voleurs.

I have coveted everything and taken pleasure in nothing.

The devil is present in the mine, taking form in all the greed, the misunderstanding, the envy, and the betrayals among the men. He believes that the devil has come from the surface, attaching himself to those letters, the offers of money and fame, to pit them against one another.

When somebody says it's not about the money, it's about the money.

Despite his Falstaffian appearance he was a hard and ruthless man. His piggish eyes were filled with greed; his fleshy mouth was lustful; his only natural smile was one of avarice.

Gold, or at least the prospect of it, saved him, then killed him.

That blasted family could never look at a living thing without wanting to make a profit out of it, preferably by killing it.

Only the unlimited accumulation of power could bring about the unlimited accumulation of capital.

For abundance and endless consumption are the ideals of the poor: they are the mirage in the desert of misery.

families were fighting for an eel's head, which

If a man had enough to eat, he'd want to grow a second mouth.' He also had a dirty way of saying it, but I won't repeat it here." Kat

The damage those men had done. Surprise pregnancies, blackmail, extortion, even murder—all covered up with the mighty dollar.

But at a certain point, and I don't really know... people have asked me this. I don't know exactly what it was that pushed me towards directing, but I think it was a naive notion that if I directed I would be able to play all the roles. A kind of greed.

I have long since thrown in the towel on the Democratic and Republican parties because they are really a front group for the 1%, for predatory banks, fossil fuel giants, and war profiteers.

To Than Shwe, a kingdom in return for the eternal soul is just the right egregious trade-off. Than Shwe is a general who carries the light of unbounded ambition.