Quotes About Greed

Don Vicente, a monk of the Convent of Pobla in Aragon, murdered several collectors in order to get their best books;

One time we had the whole world in our hands, but we ate it and burned it and it's gone now.

Everybody wants something at the expense of everybody else and nobody thinks much of the other fellow.

Selfishness and greed, individual or national, cause most of our troubles.

You can't get rich in politics unless you're a crook. - Harry S. Truman

Show me a man that gets rich by being a politician, and I'll show you a crook.

Industrialists, who turn the Amazonian jungle into useless tundra or cement over half the planet, are not, for some reason, machine-gunned en masse, nor captured and exhibited, nor do they have their teeth extracted and carved into little men.

Our throughput society depends on insecurity, gluttony, and planned obsolescence. It's how we keep the lights on.

Rather than a tale of greed, the history of luxury could more accurately be read as a record of emotional trauma," writes Alain de Botton in his book Status Anxiety, efficiently summing up Draper, Grey, and Trump in one blow. "It is the legacy of those who have felt pressured by the disdain of others to add an extraordinary amount to their bare selves in order to signal that they too may lay a claim to love.

Ebola haunted Zaire because of corruption and political repression. The virus had no secret powers, nor was it unusually contagious. For centuries Ebola had lurked in the jungles of central Africa. Its emergence into human populations required the special assistance of humanity's greatest vices : greed, corruption, arrogance, tyranny, and callousness.

Who values gold above all, considers all else as trifling.

Who will sacrifice nothing, and enjoy all, is a fool.

Money is the seal and stamp of success.

We don't care if these girls want to eat their men. That's the Piranha Man's problem. We just want the avocados.

My definition of a decent society is one that first of all takes care of its losers, and protects its weak. What I see in my country, progressively over these years, is that the rich have got richer, the poor have got poorer. The rich have become indifferent through a philosophy of greed, and the poorer have become hopeless because they're not properly cared for. That's actually something that is happening in many Western societies. Your own, I am told, is not free from it.

Greed puts out the sun.

Where there's property, there's theft.

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The stinking rich are fucking cheap," Green said. "Which is how they stay rich and why they stink.

Mulholland Drive is a two-lane, serpentine road that runs along the crest of the mountains and is named after the guy who built a two-hundred-mile aqueduct to drain water from the Northern California delta down to Los Angeles just so developers could get rich building homes in a place that otherwise is inhospitable to human life. The whole city is a carefully constructed lie built on greed.

Economy-size coffins for the living dead. Tin cans for the sardines of humanity. There wasn't a more heinous pairing of words in the English language

The same people who can deny others everything are famous for refusing themselves nothing.

Later when we became friends she told me that being a viper was lucrative.

If there is one word to describe Atlantic City, it's Big Business -- Or two words Big Business." -- ("President"(!)) Donald Trump