Quotes About Greed

I guess if people couldn't profit from war I don't think there would be war.

Every modern war has had its roots in exploitation.

Luxury destroys more efficiently than war.

We go to gain a little patch of ground that hath in it no profit but the name.

Endless money forms the sinews of war. [Lat., Nervi belli pecunia infinita.]

Men appear to prefer ruining one another's fortunes, and cutting each other's throats about a few paltry villages, to extending the grand means of human happiness.

Wars are sometimes waged to extend trade-the blood of many being shed to enrich a few.

Let the gulled fool the toil of war pursue, where bleed the many to enrich the few.

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

Do you want to know the cause of war? It is capitalism, greed, the dirty hunger for dollars. Take away the capitalist, and you will sweep war from the earth.

We often participate in a war only to lose our hearts and to gain a few pieces of land.

Show me a man that gets rich by being a politician, and I'll show you a crook.

War! Someone's making a hell of a lot of money.

As long as greed is the root of all evil, there will not be peace.Get rid of selfishness and greed too will disappear.

patriotism of many is....a voice and nothing more... A spirit of money-making has eaten up our patriotism. Our morals are more depreciated than our currency.

The poor manufacture the engines of their own destruction, but it's the rich who sell them.

Beware of greed and remain pure and just. Restrain yourself from every vice. He who cannot restrain himself, how will he be able to teach others restraint?

Somebody once said we never know what is enough until we know what's more than enough.

Selfishness and greed, individual or national, cause most of our troubles.

Greed is permanent slavery

If a man could have half of his wishes, he would double his troubles.

The biggest human temptation is... to settle for too little.

Every evil, harm and suffering in this life comes from the love of riches.

He who is greedy is disgraced; he who discloses his hardship will always be humiliated; he who has no control over his tongue will often have to face discomfort.