Quotes About Greed

Driving a brand new car feels like riding around in an open billfold with the dollars flapping by your ears as they fly out the window.

We, the over-class, have taken those basic human drives and advanced our own selves through their exploitation. We have monetized human consumption, manipulated morals and laws to direct the masses by fear or hatred, and, in doing so, have managed to create a system of wealth and remuneration that has concentrated the vast majority of the world's wealth in the hands of a select few.

If the other guy's happy, then there's still money left on the table.' " A

A woman can tear away a man's soul, while he stands there in awe of her sweet words and beauty. Then she will throw it in a green and yellow tasked, and sell it back to him, for the same gold he dug from the ground, to pay the bankers for his freedom, and when she finds nothing else in his pockets, she will turn and walk away, laughing

A woman can tear away a man's soul, while he stands there in awe of her sweet words and beauty. Then she will throw it in a green and yellow basket, and sell it back to him, for the same gold he dug from the ground, to pay the bankers for his freedom, and when she finds nothing else in his pockets, she will turn and walk away, laughing

A woman can tear away a man's soul, while he stands there in awe of her sweet words and beauty. Then she will throw it in a green and yellow tasket, and sell it back to him, for the same gold he dug from the ground, to pay the bankers for his freedom, and when she finds nothing else in his pockets, she will turn and walk away, laughing

The men that is now is only all palaver and what they can get out of you.

They mouth love's language. Gnash The thirteen teeth Your lean jaws grin with. Lash Your itch and quailing, nude greed of the flesh. Love's breath in you is stale, worded or sung, As sour as cat's breath, Harsh of tongue.

All those wretched quarrels, in his humble opinion, stirring up bad blood, from some bump of combativeness or gland of some kind, erroneously supposed to be about a punctilio of honour and a flag, were very largely a question of the money question which was at the back of everything greed and jealousy, people never knowing when to stop.

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All those wretched quarrels, in his humble opinion, stirring up bad blood — bump of combativeness or gland of some kind, erroneously supposed to be about a punctilio of honour and a flag, — were very largely a question of the money question which was at the back of everything, greed and jealousy, people never knowing when to stop.

Most criminals are stupid. They creep $500,000 homes in the Garden District, load up two dozen bottles of gin, whiskey, vermouth, and Collins mix in a $2,000 Irish linen tablecloth and later drink the booze and throw the tablecloth away.

I was not simply tired of the world's iniquity. I was tired of greed in particular and the ostentatious display of wealth that characterizes our times, and the justifications for despoiling the earth and injuring our fellow man.

money and money and money, the one item that human beings will go to any lengths to acquire.

Stealing a man's wife, that's nothing, but stealing his car, that's larceny.

Why aren't crazy people content to take over, like, one town? It always has to be the whole word. They can't just control maybe twenty people. The have to control everyone. The can't just be stinking rich. The can't just do genetic experiments on a couple unlucky few. They have to put something in the water. In the air. To get everyone. I was tired of all of it.

Marty, my mother used to say Never get greedy with God. I think what she meant was Don't dare ask for more if you already have what you need.

Miss Moneybags.

Never Enough" from The Greatest Showman.

prophet. Trying to protect me from this life of greed. How

Inordinate desire for material possessions can become an obsession that consumes our thoughts, drains our resources, and leads to unhappiness.

Unimaginable riches for the few, disaster for the many - that's the new American way.

The only thing that stands between corporate greed and poverty is the union.

Like all animals, human beings have always taken what they want from nature. But we are the rogue species. We are unique in our ability to use resources on a scale and at a speed that our fellow species can't.