Quotes About Greed

The poetry of heroism appeals irresistibly to those who don't go to a war, and even more to those whom the war is making enormously wealthy. It's always so.

Politics, war, marriage, crime, adultery. Everything that exists in the world has something to do with money.

Gold begets in brethren hate; Gold in families debate; Gold does friendship separate; Gold does civil wars create.

War what is it good for? It's good for business.

What thrust us into war were not Hitler's political teachings: the cause, this time, was his successful attempt to establish a new economy. The causes of the war were: envy, greed, and fear.

Well, the common enemy in North America is the Western consumer. The consumer has driven oil up to $50 a barrel so we have to have these wars. I think it's incumbent upon us to.

I just want people to see what I deem as a war for no reason, but only for greed.

Ho abbastanza carattere per cui aggiungere anche la bellezza all'insieme sarebbe pura avidità.

We all want to be rich for free.

Corruption wouldn't be tempting if it didn't feel so good.

never thought about Peeta eating the squirrels I shot. Somehow I always pictured the baker quietly going off and frying them up for himself. Not out of greed. But because town families usually eat expensive butcher meat. Beef

When so much money is involved in these movies, someone somewhere is going to try to screw you.

Sooner or later, we sell out for money.

Never was a miser a brave soul.

The Westoxified Pakistanis have been selling their souls and killing their own people for a few million dollars.

It seems very clear to me that we, in the West, cannot afford to continue assuming propriety over the world's resources in a careless, greedy way without paying for it - not only with the lives of our loved ones, but also with our souls.

Avarice has ruined more souls than extravagance.

Opposites attract in physics. In life, like attracts like. Kindness attracts kindness. Greed attracts greed. Love attracts love. If you don't like what you're attracting, change who you are.

Wealth and riches are not evil, it is having love for wealth and riches that is evil

I'm extra-good at wanting things. I want things until I feel sort of sick about them. I want enough for two normal people, at least.

There are three things that stop people from becoming their best, "fear" "anger" and "greed." The antidote to fear is action, the cure for anger is gratitude and the medicine to greed is love.

Watch out when you're getting all you want. Fattening hogs ain't in luck.

SYMPTOMS OF THE FEAR OF POVERTY

weakness of mankind in wanting something for nothing.