Quotes About Greed

Ambition is but Avarice on stilts and masked.

lots of money and the power it gives them. With others it's a person. I think that's the worst kind when it's applied to a human being.

There are people who cannot live unless they possess something or someone. With some it's money. Lots and

Self-interest usually brings injustice with it.

We plunge ourselves into enormous debt and then take two and three jobs to stay afloat. We uproot our families with unnecessary moves just so we can have a more prestigious house. We grasp and grab and never have enough. And most destructive of all, our flashy cars and sports spectaculars and backyard pools have a way of crowding out much interest in civil rights or inner city poverty or the starved masses of India. Greed has a way of severing the cords of compassion. Richard J. Foster, 1981

Let us be greedy together; let us hoard. Let us hit each other with birch branches and lock each other in dungeons; let us drink each other's blood in the night and betray each other in the sun. Let us lie and lust and take hundreds of lovers; let us dance until snow melts between us. Let us steal and eat until we grow fat and roll in the pleasures of life, clutching each other for purchase.

Who liked it hot and hated snow? The Fuckwits did! the Fuckwits did! Who ate up everything that grows? The Fuckwits did! the Fuckwits did! Who drowned the world in oceans blue? The Fuckwits did! the Fuckwits did! Who took the land from me and you? The Fuckwits did, we know it's true! Are you Fuckwits, children dear? We're GARBAGETOWNERS, free and clear! But who made the garbage, rich and rank? the Fuckwits did, and we give thanks.

you lot would rather watch someone suffer untold horrors than watch them enjoy so much as a cool drink if you don't have two of your own, and yours have cherries in them as well as more ice and little paper umbrellas, and even then most of you would still prefer to take theirs and have three. This is not the behavior of a sentient race. It is the behavior of wild animals.

The ghosts will eat everything because the bellies of ghosts want the whole world, just to fill one tiny corner.

They want only their private toys and candies, and will not share.

The thing that differentiates man from animals is money.

Man is almost always as wicked as his needs require.

To be clever enough to get all that money, one must be stupid enough to want it.

Among the rich you will never find a really generous man even by accident. They may give their money away, but they will never give themselves away; they are egotistic, secretive, dry as old bones. To be smart enough to get all that money you must be dull enough to want it.

La sociedad de consumo nos condena a vivir en un estado de insuficiencia perpetua, a desear siempre más de lo que podemos comprar. Se nos aparta implacablemente del estado de plenitud, se nos tiene siempre insatisfechos, amargados por todo lo que no podemos permitirnos. Se ha dicho que el sistema del consumo comercial es un poco como el tonel de las Danaides que además sabe aprovechar el descontento y la frustración de todos.

Everyone is busy trying to fix their perceived problems and trying to get what they believe they lack and therefore what they believe they need to be safe and happy. This sense of lack drives the greed that has been so damaging to many and to the earth.

L'uomo che possiede una cosa poi ne vorrà due e poi tre e poi tutte le cose che ci sono sulla terra. E avrà in cambio solo la sua condanna, perché nessuno può possedere tutto il mondo.

La moneda, junto con la suciedad de las manos que la han asido y palpado, lleva consigo el contagio inexorable del crimen. Entre todas las cosas inmundas que el hombre ha manufacturado para ensuciar la tierra y ensuciarse él mismo, quizá sea la moneda la más inmunda de todas

Les collectionneurs étaient des personnages mesquins, des gens qui vivaient dans l'obsession d'un contrôle qu'ils n'atteindraient jamais.

We are in the midst of a struggle for American identity, including not only individualist liberalism and authoritarianism, but also the tradition of human rights and the common good that are under attack by an individualistic ideology of greed and selfishness. We need an American identity that supports fairness and justice so we have a way to encourage people to act with public responsibility.

Money doesn't talk it screams

America is an enormous frosted cupcake in the middle of millions of starving people.

Crkva odlican trbuh ima, citave zemlje vec je progutala, a ipak jos se nije prezderala; jedino crkva, gospo i gospodjice draga, moze da svari nezakonita blaga.

but a man did not acquire so much gold brocade without learning to swallow his own desire