Quotes About Greed

Art theft gave a guy an appetite.

What strip mining is to nature the art market has become to culture.

It was men's ambitions, they said, that had perverted all the arts to ends of gain.

Original art emanates in the mind ... and lessons society's confusion from self indulgence, avarice and greed to trust, hope and love.

Greed is the performance art of the 21st Century.

He says money always wins the day in the end.

taking the money. She made it sound like more

What do you do with all your money? Me and the French hoard gold.

Now I'm going to have my fun. I've got ten thousand dollars of your money to play with. I'm going to use it opening Poisonville up from Adam's apple to ankles.

Spade] scowled at Gutman and burst out irritably: Jesus God! is this the first thing you guys ever stole? You're a fine lot of lollipops! What are you going to do next-- get down and pray?

Money is ephemeral, moving from person to person, it's a tool. Don't let it get into your heart or soul.

Keep the money in your hand, never in your heart.

Ty swept his arms around, encompassing everything around them, the vast campus above. "All this. The fucking shark that eats the world.

I have never understood why it is 'greed' to want to keep the money you've earned, but not greed to want to take somebody else's money.

And he goes round with a fat roll of dollar bills, and got this nice farm, and all them fancy machines, and man let his family starve.' - Louisa Mae Cardinal

If Jackson had learned one thing over the years it was that nothing, absolutely nothing, was above corruption so long as human beings were involved, because, in truth, most people were not above the lure of the dollar or other material entitlements.

These rich Americans often have more than one home. They travel between them and enjoy the fruits of their greed and exploitation of the poor.

Even a rich man can spend more than he's got coming in. And that makes him a poor man.

I guess it comes down to greed. You don't pay folks, you make more money. That and thinking one race wasn't as good as another.

La chiesa ha trasformato la corruzione in una forma d'arte basata sulla pura avidità.

What fire dies when you feed it?

What fire dies when you feed it? It

Nothing matters in this goddamned lunatic asylum of a world but dough.

What win I, if I gain the thing I seek? A dream, a breath, a froth of fleeting joy. Who buys a minute's mirth to wail a week? Or sells eternity to get a toy? For one sweet grape who will the vine destroy? Or what fond beggar, but to touch the crown, Would with the sceptre straight be strucken down?