Quotes About Greed

All envy is proportionate to desire.

Our desires always increase with our possessions. The knowledge that something remains yet unenjoyed impairs our enjoyment of the good before us.

The poor lack much, the greedy everything.

It doesn't matter how much you get; you are left wanting more.

Avarice, or the desire of gain, is a universal passion which operates at all times, at all places, and upon all persons.

The desire to gain wealth and the fear to lose it are our chief breeders of cowardice and propagators of corruption.

Ambition is the immoderate desire for power.

The percentage you're paying is too high priced While you're living beyond all your means And the man in the suit has just bought a new car From the profit he's made on your dreams.

The more we have the less we own.

Entitlement is lethal.

I loathe the very thought of airports and also airlines taking as much from you as possible and giving very little back.

In every war, there's looting.

I always look back and say I should have made more. It should have been more lucrative, but it wasn't.

In the Machine Age, the company itself became a machine - a machine for making money.

Lightheartedness was a treasure in a world too full of sorrows, a treasure little regarded and widely forfeited to agression, greed and horrendous tribal rituals.

Does it follow, then, that progressives and socialists are entirely wrong when they say that there are rich people in the top 1 percent who are greedy selfish leeches, who don't deserve their money and who have gotten it by contributing little or nothing to society? Actually, no! Such people do exist, and they can be found among the ranks of the progressives and socialists themselves. Let's consider a few notorious examples.

In Obama's America, the wealth creators are greedy, selfish, and materialistic while the wealth stealers are the most morally wonderful people in the country.

Summing up, we can see that the progressive pitches about greed, selfishness, and inequality are basically diversions. They seek to deflect us away from the core issue, which is that the creators of the wealth are the ones who deserve the wealth they have created. To put it in primitive terms, the farmer who grew the crops gets to keep the crops and the hunters who killed the deer get to eat the deer.

I wonder if there isn't a catch about having plenty of money? Does it eventually take the pleasure out of things?

Have you ever seen so many people, she whispered, gathered in one place in order to be rich, powerful and disgusting together?

Now, here is the point about the self: it is insatiable. It is always, always hankering. It is what you might call rapacious to a fault. The great flaming mouth to the thing is never in this world going to be stuff full.

Where does American money come from? Steel. Railways. You know how it is over there. It doesn't matter if you murder or rob to get it. The trick is in keeping it for a hundred years, and then you're aristocrats.

Mine, mine. Fear, idolatry, hoarding. The delight and terror of the fetishist.

And your point is?? My point is like, democracy is excuse for any fucking thing. Violence ...greed ...stupidity... anything is ok if Americans do it. Right? Am I right? You really can't shut up, can you?