Quotes About Greed

You know what happens to people who longingly imagine having things they can't afford?" "Happy dreams?" "A life of crime.

Criminal activity does have its appeal. Otherwise there wouldn't be so many criminals.

Get rich quick is usually a scam and always for suckers.

when you have politics, you have corruption." "Possibly.

Money without honor is a disease. BALZAC

Poverty wants much; but avarice, everything. PUBLILIUS SYRUS Money

raw greed. "How much will it cost to plant them?

The refinement of an individual or a society is measured by the yardstick of how well greed and desires are controlled.

I suddenly began to realize that everybody in America is a natural-born thief. I was getting the bug myself.

I suddenly began to realize that everyone in America is a natural-born thief.

O Satan! Mephisto! Judas! O Benaiah! O evil eyes that glint beneath the lights! O clink of silver! O darkness, O death, O hell! Sheathed knives and chained wallets: lustful, grabbing, cheating, killing, hating, laughing in the lights . . .

Do you know," he added, "I feel sorry for Mr. Butler. He was too young to know better, but he robbed himself of life for the sake of thirty thousand a year that's clean wasted upon him. Why, thirty thousand, lump sum, wouldn't buy for him right now what ten cents he was layin' up would have bought him, when he was a kid, in the way of candy an' peanuts or a seat in nigger heaven.

In the greed-is-good tradition of the 'Harry Potter' and 'Twilight' movie franchises, the overseers of 'The Hunger Games' have split the last book into two films.

We did not find it difficult to deal with Bush and his administration, because it is similar to regimes in our countries - both types include many who are full of arrogance and greed.

Corruption is just another form of tyranny.

The bloodsuckers around Tyson are always looking for one more payday, and some people will always be willing to pay to see Iron Mike fight.

Some people are money hungry and don't stop to think of who they're affecting and what really matters. There's a lot of ugly.

Corporations take the humanity out of trade - they take the happiness out and replace it with something that is ugly.

Money can be pretty ugly.

Human beings may well be unable to break free of the dictatorship of greed that spreads like a miasma over the world, but no longer will we be an inarticulate and ignorant humanity, confused by our enslavement to superior cruelty and weaponry.

Go miser go, for money sell your soul. Trade wares for wares and trudge from pole to pole, So others may say when you are dead and gone. See what a vast estate he left his son.

Many powerful people don't want peace, because they live off war.

Most wars are fought for greed, but we are luckier here we fight for our lives and the lives of the people we love.

The 3-D effects in "Star Wars" are so realistic, you can actually see George Lucas reaching from the screen and taking the money from your wallet.