Quotes About Greed

that much gold, and great store of riches makes them mad, insomuch as they endeavour to destroy each other...

The reason thereof is, said the Duchess, that they have too little Gold and Riches, which makes them so eager to have it. No, replied the Empress's Soul, their particular Covetousness, is beyond all the wealth of the richest World, and the more Riches they have, the more Covetous they are; for their Covetousness is Infinite.

In our daily life, we encounter people who are angry, deceitful, intent only on satisfying their own needs. There is so much anger, distrust, greed, and pettiness that we are losing our capacity to work well together.

It is not the creation of wealth that is wrong, but the love of money for its own sake.

it seems as if people fought hardest against those who had a little more than themselves or often a little less, instead of the lugs who got richer and richer.

Racism defends our greed, frees us from self-control and makes others responsible for our failings. It is an attempt to silence the guilt so we can look in the mirror.

The famous ones kept going, video, photos, headlines, and here they still are, running countries, pressing buttons, standing in offices insisting that all the money in the world belongs to them, pushing secrets through votes, starving the bottom so the top can feast

Some people talk of morality, and some of religion, but give me a little snug property.

Si quiero ser libre para amar tengo que liberarme de mi egoísmo, de mi sensualidad, de mi avaricia, del consumismo, de mi afán por coleccionar likes.

any era that is dominated by the love of money only, has a rotten core within it and must perish

I think we need to take on the greed of the billionaire class, a disastrous campaign finance system.

The alluring, long-shot chance of a huge gain is the grease that lubricates the machine of innovation.

When we get more houses than we can live in, more cars than we can ride in, more food than we can eat ourselves, the only way of getting richer is by cutting off those who don't have enough.

Gluttony is not a secret vice.

Tis not a year or two shows us a man: They are all but stomachs, and we all but food; They eat us hungerly, and when they are full They belch us.

Appetite, a universal wolf.

He who feasts every day, feasts no day.

Greed is taking more than you need to feed. Avarice is hoarding, and stockpiling stolen, rotten goods.

The covetous man is always poor.

Is there no end to this escalation of desire?

We are never content with our lot.

Want is a growing giant whom the coat of Have was never large enough to cover.

He is not rich that possesses much but he that covets no more and he is not poor that enjoys little but he that wants too much.

He is not poor that hath not much but he that craves much.