Quotes About Greed

Blood only serves to wash ambition's hands.

I find it odd- the greed of mankind. People only like you for as long as they perceive they can get what they want from you. Or for as long as they perceive you are who they want you to be. But I like people for all of their changing surprises, the thoughts in their heads, the warmth that changes to cold and the cold that changes to warmth... for being human. The rawness of being human delights me.

Nobody can spare themselves the waiting and most will be unable to bear this torment, but will throw themselves with greed back at men, things, and thoughts, whose slaves they will become

conspiracies don't exist in government for long. But a couple of things are timeless, especially in Washington: greed and corruption. Especially

The skaven will not prevail! Here they will be broken, shattered upon our steel! They fight for domination, to sate their greed. We fight for our homes, for our families, for those we would keep safe from the horrors of Old Night. It is our cause that is just; it is our fight that is righteous!

those for whom war is lucrative are rarely satiated.

Philip Morris just wanted your lungs," Maher concludes. "The App Store wants your soul.

Show me the money!

How can you humans actually believe yourselves superior to any truly sentient being? Look at you - self-styled demigods, mired in your own filthy social excrement, possessed of vomitous morals. You kill each other with unnatural impunity, preying upon the weal and helpless... not from necessity, but for gain. Name one other species that maims and destroys to gain glittering trinkets that will not fill one's belly.

We do not set greed against greed or hatred against hatred," he thundered. "Our creed is one that bids us to be just to all, to feel sympathy for all, and to strive for an understanding of the needs of all. Our purpose is to smite down wrong.

I don't feel a lack of hope. It's just disappointment that after all these years we're still fighting meaningless wars for a handful of people.

In continuous, Unending suffering, They are firmly rooted in the five desires Like an ox chasing its own tail. Blinded by greed and desire, They are blind and can see nothing. Seeking neither the Buddha With his great power Nor the Dharma, Which can bring an end to suffering. With deeply entrenched wrong views, They try to use suffering to get rid of suffering.

You actually don't need much. But that doesn't mean you shouldn't have it all.

It's the logical consequence of removing valuable artefacts from native cultures. This sort of pandering to American greed, at the expense of the dignity and self-determination of the cultures concerned, is certain to cause long-term results—

In his owene grece I made hym frye.

And yet he hadde a thombe of gold.

Fy on possessiounBut if a man be vertuous withal.

I don't need three cars and a great big fucking house [for two people]. But I do and I want it. This is the issue.

I don't need three cars and a great big fucking house [for two people]. But I do and I want it. This is the issue. [The Future of the Planet: Life, Growth and Death in Organisms, Cities and Companies. SFI Community Lecture, August 29, 2017]

The system we have evolved critically relies on people continually wanting new cars and new cell phones, new widgets and gadgets, new clothes and new washing machines, new thrills, new entertainment, and pretty much new everything, even when they already have enough of "everything.

And recently, we installed another word in its place which, to their minds, has a wholly positive connotation. We say 'Gluttony'. They say 'Consumerism'.

The wealthy have nothing left except money.

When a man says money can do anything, that settles it: he hasn't got any.

Property is organized robbery.