Quotes About Greed

Our merchandised may be over priced, but I think it's reasonable considering I only want more money.

Once you want something, everything changes. Now I want everything. More and more and more.

The avarice of mankind is insatiable; at one time two obols was pay enough; but now, when this sum has become customary, men always want more and more without end.

Nowadays, for the sake of the advantage which is to be gained from the public revenues and from office, men want to be always in office.

Our necessities never equal our wants.

I'm not against the corporations. They are our wealth. But they are getting too greedy. I don't want to do away with corporations. I want them to make our cars, however, not our laws.

A foundation is a large amount of money completely surrounded by people who want some.

The ego wants to want more than it wants to have.

I have been a vulnerable target for those who want money.

He who has nothing and wants something is less frustrated than he who has something and wants more.

Plenty, as well as Want, can separate friends.

It's easier for me to get three times the amount of money I really want.

God is in heaven, and we all want what's his. But power and greed and corruptible seed seem to be all that there is.

-Do you think it's dirty money? -All money is dirty. If it were clean nobody would want it.

Hundreds would never have known want if they had not first known waste.

The ego wants to want more than it wants to have. And so the shallow satisfaction of having is always replaced by more wanting.

We can never have enough of that which we really do not want.

At every turn, when humanity is asked the question, 'Do you want temporary economic gain or long-term environmental loss, which one do you prefer,' we invariably choose the money.

We have a talent for disguising greed under the cloak of freedom. As

We have a talent for disguising greed under the cloak of freedom. As for past acts of depravity, we prefer to ignore those. Progress, after all, means to look ever forward, and whatever we have trampled in our wake is best forgotten

At what point in the history of Letheras, he wondered, did rampant greed become a virtue? The level of self-justification required was staggering in its tautological complexity, and it seemed language itself was its greatest armour against common sense.

The language of Consumer is most colorful. At last count, this language possesses twenty-nine thousand four hundred fifty six words and phrases to replace and deflect the immoral concept of 'greed'. It possesses Four Volumes of Rationalizations, Nine Volumes of Justifications and a Handy Quick-Chart of Suitable False Definitions of the concept of 'need', an essential resource to be used at the Moment of Indecision in Conjunction with Mouth- Watering Pupil- Dilating Desire.

Uhm, in our universe human civilization has descended into a pseudo-fascist hate-mongering anti-intellectual humorless inflexible lowest-common-denominator corporate fuck-everyone-over paradigm of systemic inequality and suffering and misery except for the chosen few.

If Vespasian had a vice, it was greed. The emperor and his favorites had shamelessly exploited their positions to accrue enormous wealth, treating the Roman state as a moneymaking scheme for insiders. Vespasian famously put a tax on the city's latrinae, claiming a share of the money made by the sale of urine to fullers, who used it to clean wool. Thus the saying, "Even when you piss, the emperor takes a percentage.