Quotes About Greed

As a rule, the human mind gets attached to possessions very firmly. They don't want to lose anything. They hold on to the little possession and can't see the big possibilities.

To have wealth does not mean you love money, you can love money and not even have a cent

Life isn't all about money but this life is nothing without it!

There is no victor in life - for it is a game of expression, not of greed.

The world is naturally averse to all truth it sees or hears but swallows nonsense and a lie with greediness and gluttony.

Give a man everything he wants and at that moment everything is not everything

I have never understood why it is "greed" to want to keep the money you have earned but not greed to want to take somebody else's money.

The man who has his millions will want everything he can lay his hands on and then raise his voice against the poor devil who wants ten cents more a day.

It's a mystery to me; We have a greed, with which we have agreed. You think you have to want more than you need. Until you have it all, you won't be free.

It is greed to do all the talking but not to want to listen at all.

We've been raised to compete, to want more! More! More! It's a way of life. It's about greed.

If we listen human instinct actually tells us what we need, but advertising makes us want things we don't need and things we can't have.

Every ruling class has wanted only this: all the rewards and none of the burdens. The operational code is: we have a lot; we can get more; we want it all.

Our expensive welfare state is fueled by the destructive notion that 'greed' is when you want to keep your own money but 'compassion' is when you want to take somebody else's.

The remedy against want is to moderate your desires.

Basically, people are never happy enough because they want more money

Poverty wants some things, Luxury many things, Avarice all things

History will see advertising as one of the real evil things of our time. It is stimulating people constantly to want things, want this, want that.

They say I'm greedy, but I still want more, cause my eyes want to journey.

It's always nice to want money and keep doin' what you gotta do to get it, but do not be greedy.

Poverty wants much; but avarice, everything.

We are sick of war, we don't want to fight, And yet we gorge ourselves upon the dead.

Do you know who W.H. Auden was, Mr. Iscariot? W.H. Auden was a poet who once said, "God may reduce you on Judgement Day to tears of shame reciting by heart the poems you would have written had your life been good"…She was my poem, Mr. Iscariot. Her and the kids. But mostly her. You cashed in for silver, Mr. Iscariot. But me? Me…I threw away gold. That's a fact. That's a natural fact.

Is this the time to receive money and clothing, olive groves and vineyards, sheep and cattle, and male and female servants?