Quotes About Greed

Let most men have a finger and they will have the whole hand before you know. Let a clan cheif have a finger and he will have the entire arm.

Women and wine, game and deceit, make the wealth small, and the want great

Every year, our white intruders become more greedy, exacting, oppressive, and overbearing. Every year, contentions spring up between them and our people, and when blood is shed, we have to make atonement, whether right or wrong, at the cost of the lives of our greatest chiefs and the yielding up of large tracts of our lands.

Avarice, the spur of industry.

Flats are being sold for 1 lakh per square feet even though the poor can't even afford one meal in the day. It's an inhuman and insulting display of wealth, and I wanted my movie's title, 'City of Gold,' as well as the title song to reflect that.

Nowadays the rage for possession has got to such a pitch that there is nothing in the realm of nature, whether sacred or profane, out of which profit cannot be squeezed.

The way the bankers have kind of toppled the way money is distributed, and taken most of it into their own hands, is as good as Stalin or Hitler.

When money becomes more important than any other standard, then we're all in trouble.

Yes, we worship the idea of the "self-made man" - otherwise we'd go on strike against Bill Gates having all that money! We worship that idea.

Great abundance of riches cannot be gathered and kept by any man without sin.

Men soon get tired of shedding their blood for the advantage of a few individuals, who think they amply reward the soldiers perils with the treasures they amass.

Man is hypnotized by the glitter of his own gadgetry

When Jesus comes back, these crazy, greedy, capitalistic men are gonna kill him again.

There is scarcely an instance of a man who has made a fortune by speculation and kept it

Many men are contemptuous of riches; few can give them away.

Men do not desire to be rich, but to be richer than other men.

The more we take the less we become, the fortune of one man means less for some.

Men make counterfeit money; in many more cases, money makes counterfeit men.

The covetous man pines in plenty, like Tantalus up to the chin in water, and yet thirsty.

Men are pigs. Too bad we own everything.

The rich man who gives, steals twice over. First he steals the money and then the hearts of men.

There are men who gain from their wealth only the fear of losing it.

We're flimflam artists. But remember, sonny, you can't con people unless they're greedy to begin with. W. C. Fields had it right. You can't cheat an honest man.

Parsimony is enough to make the master of the golden mines as poor as he that has nothing; for a man may be brought to a morsel of bread by parsimony as well as profusion.