Quotes About Greed

Fifty years ago I learned to jump off the calendar but I kept getting drawn back on for reasons of greed and my imperishable stupidity.

In my own lifetime I've seen the apotheosis of greed as a virtue, and brutal insensitivity become enlightened self interest. We may do as well as all but a few countries but that scarcely makes us a Christian nation except to those who bathe in patriotic gore out of habit and stupidity. Neither the emperor and consorts nor the citizenry is wearing the sacramental clothing it chooses to think it is wearing. A simple, private reading of the Gospels would tell them so.

The struggle is against a nation that will always spit in its grandchildren's faces for immediate profit. As Vizenor would say, 'Their Mother Earth is a blond.' " In

As nearly all great fortunes in America are made on land stolen while the public's back is turned — and by people who want money but don't want to work for it, by men who use the title of builder and yet never have driven a nail into a board — nowhere was the relationship between politician and merchant closer than at the time the subways of New York were built.

More. Oh that word. That deceptive word. That eater of lives; that malcontent.

There are so many ways a family can unravel. All it takes is a tiny slash of selfishness, a rip of greed, a puncture of bad luck. And yet, woven tightly, family can be the strongest bond imaginable.

Stealing isn't so easy, often it's hard work, otherwise we'd all be doing it.

Our willingness to let greedy, ruthless, inhumane, self-obsessed, exploitative, dishonest markets judge us is bizarre.

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

Be ni...rds of advice on no pretense, For the worst avarice is that of sense.

Love is pure, don't let it become tainted by greed, lust and envy.

Our society had been a kleptocracy of the highest order, the government doing its best to steal from the Americans, the average man doing his best to steal from the government, the worst of us doing our best to steal from each other.

happiness, American style, is a zero-sum game,

The workers of the world have to see that capitalism is only interested in profit, not them, and that it will inevitably reduce them to slave labor as it maximizes profit.

The American Way of Life! Eat too much, work too much, buy too much, read too little, think even less, and die in poverty and insecurity.

because happiness, American style, is a zero-sum game,

I wonder what it feels like to have no desires left because you have satisfied them all, smothered them with money even before they are born. Is an existence without desire very desirable? And is the poverty of desire better than rank poverty itself?

It's a basic rule of human nature that the promise of unexpected wealth short-circuits both intelligence and common sense.

A miser is a person who is reluctant to spend and saves for those who will bury him.

He has nothing, for whom nothing is enough.

He who knows not when he has enough, is poor.

He who never has enough, never has anything.

He who wants everything every time will lose everything any time.

Man makes money, money doesn't make man but it makes monkey of him.