Quotes About Greed

Sometimes we hold the world in our hands, but in our greed for more let it fall, losing everything that we once had.

The problem of social organization is how to set up an arrangement under which greed will do the least harm; capitalism is that kind of a system.

Having more does not keep you from wanting more.

Look, no matter where you live, the biggest defect we human beings have is our shortsightedness. We don't see what we could be. We should be looking at our potential, stretching ourselves into everything we can become. But if you're surrounded by people who say 'I want mine now,' you end up with a few people with everything and a military to keep the poor ones from rising up and stealing it.

when you most need it, neither money nor power will give you the feeling you're looking for, no matter how much of them you have.

neither money nor power will give you the feeling you're looking for, no matter how much of them you have.

when you get threatened, you start looking out only for yourself. You start making money a god. It is all part of this culture.

There are many kinds of selfishness in this world, but the most selfish is hoarding

The lust for power is combustible thing

Having more does not keep you from wanting more. And if you always want more—to be richer, more beautiful, more well known—you are missing the bigger picture, and I can tell you from experience, happiness will never come.

Maximum return was the maxim to which we returned.

The old woman had become a rich woman on paper, the house now worth a fortune, and her children were always pestering her to sell it, saying she didn?t need all that space. But she told them to be patient, it would be theirs when she died, which wouldn?t be long now, and she said this kindly, to sharpen the bite of it, and to remind them how much they were motivated by money

The old woman had become a rich woman on paper, the house now worth a fortune, and her children were always pestering her to sell it, saying she didn't need all that space. But she told them to be patient, it would be theirs when she died, which wouldn?t be long now, and she said this kindly, to sharpen the bite of it, and to remind them how much they were motivated by money

Prologue: There are three wants which can never be satisfied: that of the rich wanting more, that of the sick, wanting something different, and that of the traveler, who says, anywhere but here. —Ralph Waldo Emerson

Inter-denominational violence' is generally based upon the essentially atheistic greed for more land, power, and money.

humans are endlessly stupid and greedy.

This points to a nagging and important question about free-market ideologues: Are they 'true believers', driven by ideology and faith that free markets will cure underdevelopment, as is often asserted, or do the ideas and theories frequently serve as an elaborate rationale to allow people to act on unfettered greed while still invoking an altruistic motive?

too many of us now tend to worship self-indulgence and consumption.

Just as climate denialism has become core identity issue on the right, utterly entwined with defending current systems of power and wealth, the scientific reality of climate change must, for progressives, occupy a central place in a coherent narrative about the perils of unrestrained greed and the need for real alternatives.

Even among Goldman alumni, Steven Mnuchin has distinguished himself by his willingness to profit off misery. After the 2008 Wall Street collapse, and in the midst of the foreclosure crisis, Mnuchin purchased a California bank. The renamed company, OneWest, earned Mnuchin the nickname "Foreclosure King," reportedly collecting $1.2 billion from the government to help cover the losses for foreclosed homes and evicting tens of thousands of people between 2009 and 2014.

Finding new ways to privatize the commons and profit from disaster is what our current system is built to do; left to its own devices, it is capable of nothing else.

We're all greedy, but children make it easier to be. We feel it's only right to give them everything we can grab, even when you know that anything you feed your own child still comes out of someone else's mouth.

We're all greedy, btu children make it easier to be. We feel it's only right to give them everything we can grab, even when you know that anything you feed your own child still comes out of someone else's mouth.

war grows out of desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow man.