Quotes About Greed

He's always said if you wish to die rich, invest in vice.

Dont desire much,lest you be greedy.

The things that have made America great are being subverted for the things that make Americans rich.

What is it about possessing things? Why do we feel the need to own what we love? And why do we become such jerks when we do? We've all been there. You want something, you possess it - and by possessing it, you lose it.

Original art emanates in the mind ... and lessons society's confusion from self indulgence, avarice and greed to trust, hope and love.

The poetry of heroism appeals irresistibly to those who don't go to a war, and even more to those whom the war is making enormously wealthy. It's always so.

Money is the root of all evil, and yet it is such a useful root that we cannot get on without it any more than we can without potatoes.

This love of money is the curse of America, and for the sake of it men will sell honor an honesty, till we don't know whom to trust.

It's about what happens when gullibility and fear meet greed and power.

A brave man in a brave country. It was easy to be brave, when the country was also brave. But what happened if it wasn't? If it was corrupt, and grotesque, and greedy, and violent?

What people do for power. How they're willing to mutilate themselves, physically, intellectually, morally, for power and position.

A will, an estate, could become about more than money, property, possessions. Who was left the most could be interpreted as who was loved the most. There were different sorts of greed. Of need.

It's a Buddhist belief. One of the states of man from the Wheel of Life. The more you eat the hungrier you get. It's considered the very worst of the lives. Trying to fill a hole that only gets deeper. Fill it with food or money or power. With the admiration of others. Whatever." "The Hungry Ghost,

You should. It's about what happens when gullibility and fear meet greed and power.

This man had a huge and terrible conscience riding herd on a huge and terrible greed.

Religion as a vital issue is dead except on paper, and whatever beauty-baiting the future may witness will be the work of greed and trade, and not of honest cosmos-facing.

Time! Joyless emblem of the greed Of millions, robber of the best Which earth can give ...

Aspiration sees only one side of every question; possession, many.

For greed all nature is too little.

It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.

Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.

He that visits the sick in hopes of a legacy, but is never so friendly in all other cases, I look upon him as being no better than a raven that watches a weak sheep only to peck out its eyes.

People are just greedy animals, after all.

One's relationship with money is lifelong, it colors one's sense of identity, it shapes one's attitude to other people, it connects and splits generations; money is the arena in which greed and generosity are played out, in which wisdom is exercised and folly committed. Freedom, desire, power, status, work, possession: these huge ideas that rule life are enacted, almost always, in and around money.