Quotes About Greed

based on the ordinary American's conviction of his God-given right to rape the globe's resources for his own comforts;

When one can understand the people, their gullibility and their fear, their greed and their lust for power, their ignorance and their docility to the man who shouts the loudest, one can forgive.

To understand everything is to forgive everything.' When one can understand the people, their gullibility and their fear, their greed and their lust for power, their ignorance and their docility to the man who shouts the loudest, one can forgive. Yes, one can forgive even what they did. But one can never forget. There

The bump of ego on his skull had swollen large, so he saw the whole world in terms of what it could give him.

Greedy eaters dig their graves with their teeth.

The whole plan of extermination was nothing less than a cold blooded, calculated political measure, having for its object the annihilation of a superior element in the population, which might prove troublesome, and to this must be added the motive of greed.

We always tend to think we can become happier by getting what we want, even if that means we have to make someone else suffer.

While our art cannot, as we wish it could, save us from wars, privation, envy, greed, old age, or death, it can revitalize us amidst it all.

The only motivation you need is to look at your bank account!!

In all the history of mankind, has any conqueror decided they had enough? Has any man just said, 'This is good. This is what I wanted,' and gone home?

Money is behind every war," Au-nak continued. "Religion is but an excuse. Or perhaps a justification.

When has any man ever been content with what he has? When has any tyrant said to himself, 'This is enough'?

Ear demons are totally real," Cody said. "They're what make microphones like these ones work. They're also what tell you to eat the last slice of pie when you know Tia wanted it.

When has any man ever been content with what he has?

These people seek to control the knowledge so that they can profit from it. Profit from the apocalypse itself.

I don't know what a man is. Only that every man has his price.

What's a crook, only a businessman without a shop.

Kun ihminen antaa ahneudelleen ylivallan, siihen liittyy aina riskejä.

Greed knows no bounds when it sinks its claws into people. – Rydberg

soul-sucking vampires who were profiting from the increased sense of helplessness in society.

They say there's a crime behind every fortune.

I wonder if the greatest temptation is self-rejection. Could it be that beneath all the lures to greed, lust, and success rests a great fear of never being enough or not being lovable?

But there are many other voices, voices that are loud, full of promises and very seductive, pushing me to do everything possible to gain acceptance. They deny loudly that love is a totally free gift. It is not very hard for me to know when this is happening. Anger, resentment, jealousy, desire for revenge, lust, greed, antagonisms, and rivalries are the obvious signs that I have left home.

The rich man is always sold to the institution which makes him rich.