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Quotes About Greed

Where iss it, where iss it: my Precious, my Precious? It's ours, it is, and we wants it.
~ J. R. R. Tolkien
I know that the fantastic amount of profit that people want to make on anything is damaging. And that none of us seem able to resist it.
~ Jamaica Kincaid
The best things in life are free, but you can keep them for the birds and bees; I want money.
~ John Lennon
There's often a natural inclination to want more.
~ Josh Hutcherson
He who wants to get rich wants to get rich quickly.
~ Juvenal
Waste today, want tomorrow.
~ Lauren Oliver
Of all the things he wants," Liberty said, "money's the easiest to get.
~ Lisa Kleypas
Despite their cool poses they wear their cravings on the outside, like the suckers on a squid. They want it all.
~ Margaret Atwood
Wealth oft-times killeth, where want but hindered the budding.
~ Martin Farquhar Tupper
in Hollywood, everyone wants what someone else wants. It's like a law.
~ Max D. Adams
Wall Street, the banks, and corporate America, has been able to call the shots here. They control our members of Congress and they get what they want.
~ Michael Moore
It's one thing to want money, but if you find yourself choking on a coin as you wake, the money is slightly less desirable.
~ Neil Gaiman
There is no thermometer for wants!
~ Phyllis Bottome
There are people who want to become rich; they become rich. If you persist you can fulfill any kind of stupidity
~ Rajneesh
I enrich myself by telling others to give to me so they can bribe God to get what they want.
~ Richard Rossi
Power. It's all about that, don't you forget. People want money or power.
~ Cecelia Ahern, Flawed
All wars are fought for the acquisition of wealth
~ Socrates
There are evils that have the ability to survive identification and go on for ever... money, for instance, or war.
~ Saul Bellow
We must take the profit out of war.
~ Smedley Butler
Love of power, operating through greed and through personal ambition, was the cause of all these evils.
~ Thucydides
When war becomes the most profitable course of action, we can certainly expect more of it.
~ Chalmers Johnson
War is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious.
~ Smedley Butler
Wars are caused by unprotected wealth.
~ Douglas MacArthur
All wars are fought for the sake of getting money.
~ Plato