Quotes About Greed

Never yet has the blind god, Wealth, come to my house and said 'Hipponax, I'm giving you thirty silver minas and much more.' No, he's far too tight.

They eat one another. They eat us. They eat every damn thing. They'll drink up the whole world if we let them.

El poder es infeccioso. El poder es insaciable.

They took lots of things they had no right to.

I was a fool", I say, because i might as well admit it. " I gave up the bird in my hand for two in the bush

Power is infectious. Power is greedy.

When there is a lot of power concentrated in one place, there are plenty of scraps to fight over.

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But we all want stupid things. That doesn't mean we should have them.

Cuando hay mucho poder concentrado en un mismo sitio, hay un montón de sobras por las que pelearse.

Finance, like time, devours its own children.

Behind every great fortune lies a great crime.

Where poverty ceases, avarice begins.

For avarice begins where poverty ends.

La avaricia, como el amor, posee el don de la visión de los acontecimientos futuros, que presiente y adivina.

Les avares ne croient point à une vie à venir, le présent est tout pour eux. Ce?e réflexion je?e une horrible clarté sur l'époque actuelle, où, plus qu'en aucun autre temps, l'argent domine les lois, la politique et les mœurs.

Les avares ne croient point à une vie à venir, le présent est tout pour eux. Cette réflexion jette une horrible clarté sur l'époque actuelle, où, plus qu'en aucun autre temps, l'argent domine les lois, la politique et les mœurs.

He recognized the world for what it is - a place where laws and morality have no power over the rich - and he saw in wealth the ultima ratio mundi.

Corruption is thick on the ground, talent rare.

Avarice, like love, has the gift of second sight, instinctively guessing at future contingencies, and hugging its presentiments.

Sometimes it felt like all the people in her life were scavengers, pecking viciously away at her flesh, wanting more, more, more.

Ah, yes, money. They say it doesn't buy happiness, but I don't know about that.

Our parents, our tribesman, our authority figures, clearly expect us to be bad or anti-social or greedy or selfish or dirty or destructive or self-destructive. Our social nature is such that we tend to meet the expectations of our elders. Whenever this reversal took place and our elders stopped expecting us to be social and expected us to be anti-social, just to put it in gross terms, that's when the real fall took place. And we're paying for it dearly.

All about a dollar like four quarters.