Quotes About Greed

Judas Iscariot was not a greatly wicked person, just a common money-lover, and like most money-lovers, he did not understand Christ.

You have cast out the wonder of creation - man and woman - and you have put money in its place. This is a basic terrorism against all of humanity! Think about it!

Within the cult of Wall Street that forged Mitt Romney, making money justifies any behavior, no matter how venal.

We no longer live life. We consume it.

Weapons are like money; no one knows the meaning of enough.

Money is a needful and precious thing

the engrossing pursuit of Americans is wealth.

Money writes books, money sells them. Give me not righteousness, O Lord, give me money, only money.

Rich people are poor people with money.

War is never economically beneficial except for those in position to profit from war expenditures.

Of course, money will do after its kind, and will steadily work to unspiritualize and unchurch the people to whom it was bequeathed.

Where does it stop? You get offered money for your wedding, then for your kids, new houses, holidays... We earn enough from football and sponsorships, why do you need any more?

The money to be made is clearly more important than the extinctions we cause, including our own.

Money brings some happiness. But after a certain point, it just brings more money.

Money always ends up making you blue.

One of the things that is interesting about reading conspiracy theory is that much of what folks think is conspiracy is really many people acting in concert to make or protect their money.

You can take of a man's money, but when it's all said and done, you've only taken his money.

The only way not to think about money is to have a great deal of it.

No matter how much money we have or make, we will probably never consider ourselves rich. The biggest challenge facing rich people is that they've lost they're ability to recognize that they're rich.

Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works. Greed clarifies and cuts through to the essence of the evolutionary spirit.

The curse of covetousness is that it destroys manhood by substituting money for character.

Covetousness is a sort of mental gluttony, not confined to money, but craving honor, and feeding on selfishness.

Crime, money, power, drugs - are all linked.

Money: There's nothing in the world so demoralizing as money.