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Quotes About Greed

When a nation follows God, government spends money on people. When a nation abandons God, government spends money on weapons. There is no greater poverty than greed. There is no greater disaster than desire. There is no greater curse than wanting more. The greatest peace is perfect contentment.
~ Unknown
Esto es el mundo al revés, amigo. En cambio de dárselo a la gente lo tirán acá al basural, para que no les bajen los precios. Si serán hijos de puta.
~ Unknown
The company is like an evil vending machine, you put money in and it does what you want, unless somebody else puts more money in and tells it to stop.
~ Martha Wells
I've had clients who thought they needed an absurd level of security. (And I'm talking absurd even by my standards, and my code was developed by a bond company known for intense xenophobic paranoia, tempered only by desperate greed.)
~ Martha Wells
I've had clients who thought they needed an absurd level of security. (And I'm talking absurd even by my standards, and my code was developed by a bond company known for intense xenophobic paranoia, tempered only by desperate greed.) I've also had clients who thought they didn't need any security at all, right up until something ate them.
~ Martha Wells
There's all kinds of ways to die, and most of them don't involve actual death, just the handing over of the soul to fear and anger and greed. Or despair. Very few people have the guts to deal with life on life's terms.
~ Unknown
Weapons are like money; no one knows the meaning of enough.
~ Martin Amis
Money doesn't mind if we say it's evil, it goes from strength to strength. It's a fiction, an addiction, and a tacit conspiracy.
~ Martin Amis
Money doesn't mind if we say it's evil, it goes from strength to strength. It's a fiction, an addiction, and a tacit conspiracy.
~ Martin Amis
The God of this world is riches, pleasure and pride.
~ Martin Luther
The vanity and insatiability of the human heart are unspeakable. What a man has does not please him; what he does not have, that he yearns for.
~ Martin Luther
For although greed of itself is idolatry, there was still the additional worship of the idols, or . Rachel
~ Martin Luther
Those precious words, Holy and Spiritual, have been perverted for us through the greed of the preachers, in that they have denominated the state of priests and monks holy and spiritual, and have thus scandalously robbed us of these noble, precious words, as also of the word Church, since with them the Pope and Bishops are the Church, while they do according to their own pleasure whatever they choose, in virtue of the declaration
~ Martin Luther
Through envy, greed, and councilors young, Jerusalem, Troy, and Rome were hung.
~ Martin Luther
The greedy misuse the world by striving to acquire it.
~ Martin Luther
Via?a este un animal care se hr?ne?te cu cecuri ?i cu c?r?i de credit.
~ Unknown
We live in a global economy where voracious political and corporate greed has turned your life into a disposable commodity to be used and discarded.
~ Unknown
Long is the way And hard, that out of Hell leads up to light Paradise Lost (1667) John Milton, 1608–74 For the love of money is the root of all evil 1 Timothy 6:10
~ Martina Cole
Whoever said that money made you happy was a liar. A dirty rotten stinking liar!
~ Martina Cole
In Sallust's view, the moral fibre of Roman culture had been destroyed by the city's success and by the wealth, greed and lust for power that had followed its conquest of the Mediterranean and the crushing of all its serious rivals. The crucial moment came eighty-three years before the war against Catiline, when in 146 BCE Roman armies finally destroyed Carthage, Hannibal's home base on the north coast of Africa.
~ Mary Beard
The three primary motivators for murder are money, sex, and revenge.
~ Mary Burton
The rich kept stuffing their pockets and the poor fell deeper in debt.
~ Unknown
Those who love money will never have enough. How meaningless to think that wealth brings true happiness!
~ Ecclesiastes 5:10
Oh, the jealousy, the greed is the unraveling. It's the unraveling and it undoes all the joy that could be.
~ Joni Mitchell