Quotes About Greed

Oh, how small a portion of earth will hold us when we are dead, who ambitiously seek after the whole world while we are living!

Property is theft. Nobody "owns" anything. When you die, it all stays here.

It's a measure of the depth of our consumer trance that the death of the planet is not sufficient to break it.

Autumn is the harvest of greedy death.

any mean, ambitious man,...counts his losses more than his gains.

That's the thing about wealth and power. Once you've learned to want it—that's all you learn. You don't learn satisfaction, you just want more. There's never enough. You'll never be rich enough, Johnnie, and you'll die in dissatisfaction.

Life experiences, mental illness, drugs, greed, environment, and poor role-modeling can all forge damaged people and can generate a darkness, an exploitiveness, in the way they approach life. Whatever their genesis, there are people in your life (and mine) who will hurt you if you let them.

Al Hickey: It's not about anything. Frank Boggs: Yeah, it's about four hundred grand

L'économie est également une invention noble quand elle a pour mission de réguler les liens et les nécessités entre les êtres humains et d'instaurer un ordre équitable à la satisfaction de chacun. Observée d'une façon plus objective, ce que nous appelons économie repose sur l'avidité et l'insatiabilité humaine avec un «toujours plus» stimulé par la publicité.

How many people similarly spent their lives searching for their own spells—some gratuitous benefit such as a silver tree or political power or undeserved acclaim—when all they really needed was to be satisfied with what they already had? Sometimes what they had was better than what they thought they wanted.

Wealth and power at the expense of nature were an inevitably lethal cancer. But there seemed to be no gentle way to convince cancer to practice moderation.

Money-makers are tiresome company, as they have no standard but cash value.

Honesty is for the most part less profitable than dishonesty

if the just man is good at keeping money, he is good at stealing it.

And so they grow richer and richer, and the more they think of making a fortune the less they think of virtue; for when riches and virtue are placed together in the scales of the balance the one always rises as the other falls.

All wars are undertaken for the acquisition of wealth

Today is truly the Golden Age: gold buys hornor, gold procures love

Some starve. Some eat. Disparity is simply the order of things. It's only when fat men make sauce out of other's starvation that it becomes a sin.

You'd be surprised what people will do for money that they wouldn't do for love. Myrnin.

knowledge is like any other treasure: it can be hoarded. It can be stolen. It can be scattered to the winds. And worst of all, it can inspire greed of a particularly poisonous kind.

You think you're fighting for freedom. Freedom is dangerous. Give humankind freedom, and they will inevitably fall into chaos and war, religious zealotry and senseless violence. We have kept the peace. And we've done it by giving the people what they need, when they need it. Not what they want. Want is nothing but blind and selfish greed.

The more he gives me, the more I want.

Avarice is a closed door, you don't know what's happening behind it, & before knocking you feel anxious.

Wealth is power, and power is the only thing about which contemporary culture cares.