Quotes About Greed

Everyone had their levers. Often it was greed. Greed was a reliable old standby. Sometimes it was pride. That was Groat's lever. He desperately wanted promotion; you could see it in his eyes. Find the lever, and then it was plain sailing.

Perhaps we project on to starlings that which we deplore in ourselves: our numbers, our aggression, our greed, and our cruelty. Like starlings, we are taking over the world.

Mean Mr. Mustard Such a dirty old man Such a dirty old man

Geizhälse sind die Plage ihrer Zeitgenossen, aber das Entzücken ihrer Erben.

People like money even more than they do looks.

We think that the more we have, the happier we will be. We never know what tomorrow might bring, so we collect and save as much as we can. This means we need a lot of money, so we gradually start judging people by how much money they have.

When no one's buying your records, it's easy to justify selling a song. But once you start selling records, you can't really justify having two songs in Cadillac commercials. It looks greedy. And it is greedy. This whole music thing should be about music.

What we're seeing now is that greed is still alive and kicking, and banks are bigger than ever.

Instant gratification is bringing this planet to its knees.

We have to knock down the barriers erected by greed, special interests, powerful forces.

we steal with our eyes closed to the conditions in which the poor, who make our affluence possible, live. We covet what our neighbours have and want more of the same.

The monk, Gregory the Great, tells how a nun, in her greed, ate a lettuce without first making the sign of the cross to protect herself against the evil spirits that hide between its leaves, and so she became possessed by a demon. Greetwell

lust, greed, desire, and supremacy;

Picture this: Two people are in a room. One's a sociopath, one's not. Who has the advantage? The sociopath. Because it knows it's a sociopath. The empath doesn't. The empath thinks they're playing by the same rules. They aren't. They aren't even playing the same game. There are no rules with a sociopath. There's only— DESIRE, LUST, GREED, AND THE PATH WE CHOOSE TO SUPREMACY.

While the miser is merely a capitalist gone mad, the capitalist is a rational miser

When commercial capital occupies a position of unquestioned ascendancy, it everywhere constitutes a system of plunder.

Landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed.

It's the ones who can't let go - of fear or anger, lust or greed, vanity or pride or power - who are most at risk of becoming corrupted.

he derived the law of diminishing returns: the more of a thing that you consume (be it bananas or shampoo), the less you will desire still more of it.

There is one thing alone to do in this world and that is to keep acquiring money and more money, power and more power," Napoleon said.15 He

human needs are finite, but human greed is not …

Since human needs are finite, but human greed is not, economic growth can usually be maintained through artificial creation of needs by means of advertising. The goods that are produced and sold in this way are often unneeded, and thus are essentially waste. The pollution and depletion of natural resources generated by this enormous waste of unnecessary goods is exacerbated by the waste of energy and materials in inefficient production processes. Indeed, as we discuss in Chapter 17, the

When men are tired of hearing and meditating upon the things of God, the fault lies within; in the background there is greed, and behind that sacrilege, and behind that again profanity. Let us search our hearts, and find whether the things of God have become merely a duty, a weariness, that we would relinquish if we dare, and to which we only hold for the sake of appearances.

There are two ways to get enough. One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less.