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Quotes About Greed

False riches, consisting of money, houses and lands, acquired by selfish means at cost to others and thereafter used selfishly, are almost always used for the oppression of other persons.
~ Joseph Franklin Rutherford
If money and material things become the center of our lives, they seize us and make us slaves.
~ Pope Francis
Climate change is a big scam for a lot of people to make a lot of money.
~ Donald Trump
It's hard finding people you trust or who aren't going to take your money. Everyone wants to get a piece of whatever you're doing. It's a nightmare.
~ Cara Delevingne
The more money the louder it talks.
~ Arnold Rothstein
Anybody who says that money don't change you - they only say that because they don't make enough.
~ Curtis Jackson
All good things must one day be burnt to the ground for the insurance money.
~ Mickey Cohen
I think I'm greedy, but I'm not greedy for money - I think that can be a burden - I'm greedy for an exciting life.
~ David Hockney
People think you're crazy if you turn money down... people worship money.
~ Paul Mooney
Who is the poorest man in the world? I tell you, the poorest man I know of is the man who has nothing but money.
~ John D. Rockefeller
When money rules, we remember the price of things and forget the value of things, and that is dangerous.
~ Jonathan Sacks
Where money is an idol, to be poor is a sin.
~ William Stringfellow
Money is the worst currency that ever grew among mankind. This sacks cities, this drives men from their homes, this teaches and corrupts the worthiest minds to turn base deeds.
~ Sophocles
I do not like money, money is the reason we fight.
~ Karl Marx
Money talks, bullshit walks.
~ Stephen King
You will observe that the stories told are all about money-seekers, not about money-finders.
~ Edgar Allan Poe, The Gold Bug
Everybody needs money. That's why they call it money.
~ Danny DeVito
A 5 letter word for happiness: MONEY.
~ Mr. Krabs
Make money your god, and it will plague you like the devil.
~ Henry Fielding
All the money you made will never buy back your soul.
~ Bob Dylan
He had heard people speak contemptuously of money: he wondered if they had ever tried to do without it.
~ W. Somerset Maugham
Cause a man with a briefcase can steal more money than any man with a gun.
~ Don Henley
There are only two things wrong with money: too much or too little.
~ Charles Bukowski
If money be not thy servant, it will be thy master. The covetous man cannot so properly be said to possess wealth, as that may be said to possess him.
~ Francis Bacon