Quotes About Greed

Ever since the Christmas of '53, I have felt that the yuletide is a special hell for those families who have suffered any loss or who must admit to any imperfection; the so-called spirit of giving can be as greedy as receiving--Christmas is our time to be aware of what we lack, of who's not home.

It is too true, however disgraceful it may be to human nature, that nations in general will make war whenever they have a prospect of getting anything by it.

Even while you read this, whole square miles of identical boxes are spreading like gangrene; developments conceived in error, nurtured by greed, corroding everything they touch.

There are who lord it o'er their fellow-men With most prevailing tinsel: who unpen Their baaing vanities, to browse away The comfortable green and juicy hay From human pastures; or, O torturing fact! Who, through an idiot blink, will see unpack'd Fire-branded foxes to sear up and singe Our gold and ripe-ear'd hopes.

Wealth is the relentless enemy of understanding

Wealth is the relentless enemy of understanding. The poor man has always a precise view of his problem and its remedy: he hasn't enough and needs more.

the heavy load of debt incurred in the effort to obtain and retain control during the years of financial pillage and devastation.

When the last tree is cut and the last fish killed, the last river poisoned, then you will see that you can't eat money.

In America today you can murder land for private profit. You can leave the corpse for all to see, and nobody calls the cops.

If we go on using the Earth uncaringly and without replenishing it, then we are just greedy consumers.

It's not just an economic crisis that capitalism has created. We also face an environmental catastrophe created by a handful of gigantic fossil fuel corporations.

When workmen strive to do better than well, they do confound their skill in covetousness.

My experience politically has always been that one-word definition of politics: money. Keep your eye on the buck. And that tells you where the American people are going to be.

If we could let go of our faith in money, who knows what we might put in its place?

Money is the closest to everything, but also what distances us from many things.

People expect more than what they give and a lot many are that way, and that's why we can call the world a greedy one.

Some people just couldn't bear with the thought that we can't have everything we want. Our insatiable desire for more leaves us empty handed after the feast.

I see nothing but a cuckolded husband and Agamemnon's greed.

Money just draws flies.

Civilization, her mother had told her since she was small, was a series of agreements about what was good for everyone, enforced by law. And civilization was only a thin veneer over the savagery and greed that were the human default.

History will see advertising as one of the real evil things of our time. It is stimulating people constantly to want things, want this, want that.

History will see advertising "as one of the real evil things of our time. It is stimulating people constantly to want things, want this, want that."

You show me a capitalist, and I'll show you a bloodsucker.

You show me a capitalist, and I'll show you a bloodsucker