Quotes About Greed

Gambling with cards or dice or stocks is all one thing. It's getting money without giving an equivalent for it.

Our necessities are few, but our wants are endless.

Luxury cannot be obtained other than by enslaving other people.

Our real innermost concern was to get as much money and praise as possible. To gain that end we could do nothing except write books and papers.

You live in better style than we do, but though you often earn more than you need, you are very likely to lose all you have. You know the proverb, 'Loss and gain are brothers twain.' It often happens that people who are wealthy one day are begging their bread the next.

At first, in the bustle of building and settling down, Pahom was pleased with it all, but when he got used to it he began to think that even here he had not enough land.

Money, in itself, is evil. And therefore he who gives money gives evil.

And people strive not for the good in life, but for goods they can call their own

Cada día el mundo se vuelve más egoísta y feo. Hay odio entre las personas, entre las clases, entre los pueblos; porque todo el mundo está buscando encontrar bienes materiales, la posesión de la cual no es nada

I needed so much To have nothing to touch I've always been greedy that way

O God, make me poor enough to love yurd diamond in the rough, or in my failure let me see, my greed raised to mistery. Do you hate the one who must turn your world all to dust? Do you hate the ones who ask if Creation wears a mask God beyond the God I name, if mask and fire are the same, repair the seam my love leaps through , uncreated fire to pursue. Network of cretated fire, maim my love and my desire. Make me poor so I may be, servant in the world I see

Così, dall'ansia di perdere certe gioie appena gustate, dall'innata avarizia, dall'oscuro disprezzo per i propri simili, prontamente cogliendo l'occasione che la sorte gli offriva, con grave ma lucido azzardo, Giuseppe Vella si fece protagonista della grande impostura.

Ebenezer Scrooge is no castoff drunk, but the very emblem of economic achievement.

Everyone knows that where there is something that is capable of giving profit, then exploited it will be.

Nothing is too unreasonable nor too unkind for selfishness, acted upon by vanity.

A father and two sons run Adelphia. It's a cable company. And they took from that company a billion dollars. A billion. Three people - three people took a billion dollars. What were they gonna do, start their own space program? 'Let's send the monkey to Mars, Dad!'

Money is like fire, an element as little troubled by moralizing as earth, air and water. Men can employ it as a tool or they can dance around it as if it were the incarnation of a god. Money votes socialist or monarchist, finds a profit in pornography or translations from the Bible, commissions Rembrandt and underwrites the technology of Auschwitz. It acquires its meaning from the uses to which it is put.

Under the rules of a society that cannot distinguish between profit and profiteering, between money defined as necessity and money defined as luxury, murder is occasionally obligatory and always permissible.

Money is like fire, an element as little troubled by moralising as earth, air, and water. Men can employ it as a tool or they can dance around it as if it were the incarnation of a god . . . It acquires its meaning from the uses to which it is put.

The hypocrisy of some is that we like to think of ourselves as sophisticated and evolved, but we're still also driven by primal urges like greed and power.

Few of us can stand prosperity. Another man's, I mean.

I didn't do it because of the underlying greed that's prevailing, but it is about greed, doing the right thing at the right time using your clout when you have it and what for and what reason.

Capitalism is not about free competitive choices among people who are reasonably equal in their buying and selling of economic power, it is about concentrating capital, concentrating economic power in very few hands using that power to trash everyone who gets in their way.

We lost our way and allowed greed and excess to become the twin pillars of too much of the financial culture. We became a society utterly absorbed in consumption and dismissive of moderation.