Quotes About Greed

Tell me what's wrong with society When everywhere I look I see Rich guys driving big SUV's While kids are starving in the streets No one cares No one likes to share I guess life's unfair

realized that this country has gone so flabby that any gang daring enough and unscrupulous enough, and smart enough not to seem illegal, can grab hold of the entire government and have all the power and applause and salutes, all the money and palaces and willin' women they want.

It's all a hold up anyway-- money, body, brains. Do you think anybody's ever satisfied with what he's got a right to?

Be charitable before wealth makes thee covetous.

A little wanton money, which burned out the bottom of his purse.

A little wonton money, which burned out the bottom of his purse.

Down went the owners -- greedy men whom hope of gain allured: oh, dry the starting tear, for they were heavily insured.

Through the machineries of greed, pettiness, and the abuse of power, love occurs.

The love of lucre, though sometimes carried to a ridiculous excess, a vicious excess, is the grand cause of prosperity to all States.

The market-place, the eager love of gain, Whose aim is vanity, and whose end is pain!

The love of pelf increases with the pelf. [Lat., Crescit amor nummi quantum ipsa pecunia crescit.]

...unless the exchange be in love and kindly justice, it will but lead some to greed and others to hunger.

Money buys everything, even true love.

I love jazz because it's so American; you know it's our Only Original Art Form. It just goes against the greed of corporate America and the Wall Street Banks that are destroying our economy.

... not doing what we love in the name of greed is very poor management of our lives.

I love money, but will money ever love me in return?

How could sufferings be relieved through purification? To know the Path is to get lost at the ford. Indeed, sickness comes from worldly love And poverty begins with the pursuit of greed.

There must be more to life than having everything.

I believe good luck comes to people who are ready for it and will use it unselfishly, to help others. I don't believe it often comes to the greedy. As a general rule, the greediest people I know are also the unluckiest.

If they wanted less, they'd go home with more", he would say. That was his own axiom on greed.

Greed is not defined by what something costs; it is measured by what it costs you. If anything costs you your faith or your family, the price is too high. Such is the point Jesus makes in the parable of the portfolio.

Who can satisfy Madison Avenue? No one can. For that reason Jesus warns, "Be careful and guard against all kinds of greed" (Luke 12:15). from Cure for the Common Life

Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.

La avaricia tiene muchos rostros, pero habla un solo idioma: el idioma del «más».