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Quotes About Greed

Anyone who said money didn't matter had never had to count the coins that fell between the cushions of the couch.
~ Nora Roberts
I'll just go rub some salt in her wounds,then i think I'll run out and kick some puppies on my way to foreclosing on my quota of widows and orphans.
~ Nora Roberts
Twenty-five thousand," Maggie murmured. A tidy sum, even tidier ten years ago. "You're telling me you think the money was the motive for murder?" "Money's always a motive for murder, and it's a loose end.
~ Nora Roberts
She moaned, wrapped her arms around him and met greed with greed. This was no gentle exploration, no easy sampling. It was all heat and hunger, passion warring against passion, strength pitted against strength. She was wild tastes and silken textures. She was arousing scents and soft sighs. Her mouth was pure sin, and was rapidly driving
~ Nora Roberts
As the wheel of time turned, there came those who pushed aside the old gods for the gods of greed, for the lust of dominion over the land and the sea, for the glory of what some deemed progress.
~ Nora Roberts
Ever since Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher lightened all the regulations for making money, the gap between the haves and have not has grown. Inspired by a 1980's Hollywood movie, the mantra for Wall Street became "greed is good.
~ Christopher Titmuss
Workshop leaders working with business men and women also need to develop the inner empowerment to inquire deeply into corporate values. Mindfulness courses need to expand the vision to address institution problems not just personal stress in the workplace. There is the sickness of greed and aggression in capitalism. Have courses, workshop and programmes become another marketable product to avoid challenging business ethics and policies?
~ Christopher Titmuss
He was going to take in, possess the whole of the world. Aussie Aussie Aussie, Oi Oi Oi? Fuck off. He wanted more.
~ Christos Tsiolkas
This isn't about love as in caring. This is about property as in ownership.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
I wanted to destroy everything beautiful I'd never have. Burn the Amazon rain forests. Pump chlorofluorocarbons straight up to gobble the ozone. Open the dump valves on supertankers and uncap offshore oil wells. I wanted to kill all the fish I couldn't afford to eat, and smother the French beaches I'd never see. I wanted the whole world to hit bottom.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Hoard food and it rots. Hoard money and you rot. Hoard power and the nation rots.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Every planet will take on the corporate identity of whoever rapes it first.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Power, money, food, sex, love. Can we ever get enough, or will getting some make us crave even more?
~ Chuck Palahniuk
In capitalist nation, all is decided by money.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Hoard food and it rots. Hoard money and you rot. Hoard power and the government rots.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
What Tyler says about being the crap and the slaves of history, that's how I felt. I wanted to destroy everything beautiful I'd never have. Burn the Amazon rain forests. Pump chlorofluorocarbons straight up to gobble the ozone. Open the dump valves on supertankers and uncap offshore oil wells. I wanted to kill all the fish I couldn't afford to eat, and smother the French beaches I'd never see.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
and the things you used to own, now they own you.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Podemos tener suficiente, o conseguir un poco solamente nos hará ansiar más?
~ Chuck Palahniuk
The things you own end up owning you
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Reklamlar insanlar? gerek duymad?klar? arabalar?n ve k?yafetlerin peÅŸinde koÅŸturuyor. Kaç kuÅŸakt?r insanlar nefret ettikleri iÅŸlerde çal???yorlar, neden? Gerçekte ihtiyaç duymad?klar? ÅŸeyleri sat?n alabilmek için.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
I wanted to destroy everything beautiful I'd never have. Burn the Amazon rain forests. Pump chlorofluorocarbons straight up to gobble the ozone. Open the dump valves on supertankers and uncap offshore oil wells. I wanted to kill all the fish I couldn't afford to eat, and smother the French beaches I'd never see. I wanted the whole world to hit bottom.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Soy un estúpido y todo cuanto hago es desear y necesitar cosas.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Reklamlar insanlar? gerek duymad?klar? arabalar?n ve k?yafetlerin peÅŸinden koÅŸturuyor. Kaç kuÅŸakt?r insanlar nefret ettikleri iÅŸlerde çal???yorlar; neden? Gerçekte ihtiyaç duymad?klar? ÅŸeyleri sat?n alabilmek için.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
The things you own, end up owning you. Tyler Durden
~ Chuck Palahniuk