Quotes About Greed

What was money that it should make such dreadful things of men and women?

The rich man and his daughter are soon parted.

I could not possibly count the gold-digging ruses of women, Not if I had ten mouths, not if I had ten tongues.

All a lot of women see are dollar signs.

As the stars make more and more money - one person gets $12 million, $14 million, $15 million, $20 million - everyone else is expected to work for peanuts. And that includes some extraordinary actors who are, today, working for peanuts because the production companies have decided they don't need to pay these people, and they don't.

Humans are insane. We kill our own people, starve our own people, sell them, work them to death, beat them, don't give them affordable/free/good healthcare, and let them live in misery, while a few of us have - we have all we want. We are evil.

As the rich consume more and more, they are clearly not going to want to downgrade their own status.

The 20th century has been marked by cynicism, selfishness, greed, and the desire to please, all without changing the status quo. In the 21st century, we must resurrect solidarity and compassion.

We had a field day before anyone knew anything about shorting. It was almost a license to steal. Nowadays, it's a license to get hosed.

If you want to steal, steal a little cleverly, in a nice way. Only if you steal so much as to become rich overnight, you will be caught.

Looking so cool, his greed is hard to conceal, he's fresh out of law school, you gave him a license to steal.

You have a guy like Bernie Madoff literally steal $80 billion, you know, AIG steal hundreds of billions, Goldman Sachs. Crime has changed so much, and to really do a movie with, like, drug dealers or drug smugglers is kind of almost quaint at this point.

Many would say the reason why they steal is because they want to have an arsenal for future political exploits. It is a lie. It is greed. In any case, even if you want to do that, you have no right to do it.

Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

This is America: Corporate stealing is practically the national pastime, and Goldman Sachs is far from the only company to get away with doing it.

It's so easy to steal from the bottom 99 percent, but try stealing from the top one percent, and they put you under the jail.

Money has stepped to the forefront of everything.

It is much better to have your gold in the hand than in the heart.

Nothing makes us more vulnerable than loneliness except greed.

What does he do, Clarice? What is the first and principal thing he does, what need does he serve by killing? He covets. How do we begin to covet? We begin by coveting what we see every day.

Gold! gold! gold! gold! Bright and yellow, hard and cold!

When a man has cast his longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins in his conduct.

Instead of hating the people you think are war-makers, hate the appetites and disorder in your own soul, which are the causes of war. If you love peace, then hate injustice, hate tyranny, hate greed - but hate these things in yourself, not in another.

Oh,Wert not gold and women, there would be no damnation