Quotes About Greed

Times are horrible. Nobody has any money and there is an immoral spirit in the air — just as you're getting ready to hit on someone for some cash, they're already hitting on you!

I could not be greedy, about money, I could not be greedy about miles or rides, and I could not be greedy about closeness with people; all things come in their own time, and are not mine to keep or covet - just to enjoy and learn from.

They hungered after gold like pigs.

If you ask for too much, you lose even that which you have.

Impatience is not the least of your faults, Malik, it is a kind of greed and someday it may see you undone.

In a consumer society there are inevitably two kinds of slaves: the prisoners of addiction and the prisoners of envy.

No man can lose what he never had.

Goddam money. It always ends up making you blue as hell.

Banks are an almost irresistible attraction for that element of our society which seeks unearned money.

As long as investors remain human, and thus subject to greed, fear, pressure, doubt, and the entire range of human emotions, there will be money to be made by those who steel themselves to overcome emotion.

Enter, stranger, but take heed Of what awaits the sin of greed, For those who take, but do not earn, Must pay most dearly in their turn. So if you seek beneath our floors A treasure that was never yours, Thief, you have been warned, beware Of finding more than treasure there.

[Spoken by Gollum:] Where iss it, where iss it: my Precious, my Precious? It's ours, it is, and we wants it.

I wanted," she counts on her fingers, performing the sitcom of her tragedy, "Tribeca loft, expense account, designer clothes so haute they don't look it, my very own Tesla, summer home in the Hamptons I'm too busy to use." "You wanted money," says Justin. Brianna: "It went down with the towers.

You can never get enough of what you don't need, because what you don't need won't satisfy you.

Always try to rub up against money, for if you rub up against money long enough, some of it may rub off on you.

We're fat, we're greedy, and we don't give a shit. Our religion is TV. Our saviour is Bill Gates. We've learned our lessons well. We know how to put number one first.

Americans can afford to disregard 'thou shall not kill' and 'thou shall not covet.' We sidestep 'blessed are the meek' and 'blessed are they who hunger and thirst for righteousness.' We dance around the particulars of 'again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for someone who is rich to enter the kingdom of God' as we change money in this earthen temple.

I never want to make screw-you money like the rest of the financial services industry.

In twentieth-century Old Earth, a fast food chain took dead cow meat, fried it in grease, added carcinogens, wrapped it in petroleum-based foam, and sold nine hundred billion units. Human beings. Go figure.

The moral angle to the foreclosure crisis - and, of course, in capitalism we're not supposed to be concerned with the moral stuff, but let's mention it anyway - shows a culture that is slowly giving in to a futuristic nightmare ideology of computerized greed and unchecked financial violence.

We see violence to forcibly seize land, at any price, murders and corruption.

We find personal success and great, if not enduring, influence on the outer fashioning of the world allotted to the violent, the passionate individual who, unchaining the elemental principles of human impulse under favoring circumstances, points out to greed and self-indulgence the speedy pathways to their satisfaction.

We're such a funky species. We're so violent, so greedy - this is how we roll. But what are we going to do about it? How do we move forward given who we are? Because situations don't come out of nothing. They come out of certain conditions.

The modern Left is not driven by fairness. It is guided by an ideology of greed and envy. Those are vices, not virtues.