Quotes About Greed

kith or kin lust for power as others do.

Why should we fight them when their own greed and stupidity's destroying them. Eh?

Stoner learned that men killed women for lawn mowers and crockpots.

They saw the O.J. job as a crass microcosm. It was cocaine and tit jobs. It was health club narcissism and the two-way bondage of five-figure monthly alimony payments. The bottom-level audience defined the crime. They wanted O.J.'s meretricious lifestyle. They couldn't have it. They settled for a skanky morality play that told them that lifestyle was venal.

We now know, without any shred of uncertainty, that billions of rands of public resources have been diverted into the pockets of a few.

I don't understand when people are being greedy or mean, when they say who should get what, when they get control of someone else's life.

What's immediately profitable is the only kind of logic that capitalism understands.

I think one of the most pervasive evils in this world is greed and acquiring money for money's sake. Once you have six houses and a plane, it's just about a number. It's never been anything I understood.

Undoubtedly there are, in connection with each of these things, cases of fraud, swindling, and other financial crimes; that is to say, the greed and selfishness of men are perpetual.

The greatest of our virtues and the worst of our sins is wanting nothing less than more.

A compass calibrated by my greed is a rather shrewd way to legitimize my agenda. However, true north on a compass such as this is a straight line to the edge of a really big cliff.

In today's world, human desires far supersede human needs. Waste, as you can see, is the result of that disparity.

Anger has great strength, but no brains. Greed has a great appetite, but no heart.Pride has a great spirit, but no soul.

The greatest violence, and the greatest threat to humanity, is the growth of MONEY.

There is no greater crime than a crime against humanity. There is no greater crime against humanity than usury. The greatest violence, and the greatest threat to humanity, is the growth of MONEY.

There is no greater crime against humanity than usury.

Some social ills are preserved by the common misbelief that things such as ignorance, greed, and stupidity do not have the stamina required to reach old age.

It is sad that people seek money more than wisdom.

Greed is the seed of corruptionas much as virtue is the seed of justice.Wisdom is the seed of successas much as vice is the seed of destruction.

Anger has great strength, but no brains.Greed has many hands, but no heart.Fear has many titles, but no honor.Hate has many forms, but no soul.

Pray for your needs, not your greed.

It is lack of contentment that leads to corruption.

There is more than enough for everyone. Any idea of lack and so its experience comes from fear. Fear powers greed, which encourages people to save for later just for themselves.

Buried treasure isn't worth much.