Quotes About Greed

Those who have money think that the most important thing in the world is love. The poor know it is money.

The more we take, the less we become.

Wealth, if not a mere flash in the pan, compels the wealthy to become wealthier.

Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to ...

From Gold gold bars and gold ingots bare their teeth the skulls keep silent the sockets speak

The greed for fruit misses the flower.

Black Friday: because only in America people trample each other for sales exactly one day after being thankful for what they already have.

He who dies with the most toys wins.

The American Dream was just then beginning to be defined by wealth at the expense of exploitable natural resources

Our enjoyment is tainted by anxiety about keeping what we have and our compulsion to reach out and get more.

Todo nuestro disfrute está enturbiado por la ansiedad por conservar lo que poseemos y por nuestra necesidad compulsiva de ampliarlo.

The Founders knew that unrestrained power is always dangerous. No person or group is immune from mistakes, selfishness, and greed.

Gandhi said that we have enough resources for the need of us all, but not for the greed of us all," he recited. "And this is Thomas Kocherry's quotation: 'The life of the planet, and the dependent health of humanity, cannot be sacrificed for the greed of a few.

Those who are creating the riots are not in tune with their religion. They want to plunder and destroy. Don't you know why the sweet shops get ravaged? People hanker after sweets. And gold shops too, because of greed for gold. It's the criminals and hoodlums who are on this spree of loot and plunder. There's really no conflict between the communities.

Capitalism is based on the concept that in order for someone to succeed, someone else has to suffer.

money came from human misery and death and despair, as always it does.

Forests, hills, mountains, rivers, and green streams had no protection in the face of rapacity.

Profits. Joe, if you want to use just one word"—and Mr. Healey wagged a huge finger at Joseph—"to describe wars and the making of wars, it's profits. Nothing else. Profits.

Hay hombres perversos entre nosotros que fomentan las disensiones para pescar en río revuelto o por ambición.

The more wants a man has, the less freedom.

Politics is the art of enriching oneself, the art of robbery.

War has been good to me from a financial standpoint but I don't want to make money that way. I don't want blood money.

The lessons of history were hard to ignore. Every democracy ever known had failed, beginning with the Greeks twenty-four centuries earlier. They had succumbed, one by one, to all the well-known vices of the people: corruption, greed, lust, ethnic hatred, distractibility, or simply a fatal indifference.

Pride, envy, avarice - these are the sparks have set on fire the hearts of all men.