Quotes About Greed

The lottery is similar to inheritance. The winner gets more than he deserves, plunging the economy into chaos.

The majority of African leaders, past and present, have fallen in love with the seat of the presidency. They are unwilling to leave their personal interests outside the door.

The more you expect, the more you become a slave and chained down by your desires of wishing more for yourself.

The only benefit of fear is to be afraid when everyone else are getting too greedy.

The philosophers of the past and in our generation, have long argued that the only way to eliminate poverty is by wanting less.

The word 'enough' doesn't exist inside our minds when it comes on achieving and receiving for our pleasure.

There is a touch of selfishness in everyone. Everyone wants only the best for themselves, in this world or in the hereafter.

There is no doubt that corruption is the first ingredient of poverty and suffering in any environment.

Those who are blessed with the natural resources wish to keep all the wealth to themselves only.

You can only understand the uselessness of money if you find yourself in a desert with a handful of a bag of money. You will starve to death.

one cannot forever whistle "There's a wideness in God's mercy" in the darkness of Hiroshima, of Auschwitz, of the murder of children and the careless greed that enslaves millions with debts not their own. Humankind cannot, alas, bear very much reality, and the massive denial of reality by the cheap and cheerful universalism of Western liberalism has a lot to answer for. But

Never before have so many people tripped over one another in their eagerness to get rich and thereby impaled themselves on the consequences of their own greed. The greatest irony of it all is that it's done in the name of contentment

The only thing I like about rich people is their money.

The dichotomy of man versus environment, or jobs versus environment, or prosperity versus environment, is a dangerous fiction constructed to justify greed. It cynically warrants destruction in the name of the false prophet of progress. That is what I believe.

There is only one thing in this world, and that is to keep acquiring money and more money, power and more power. All the rest is meaningless.

I am surrounded by priests who repeat incessantly that their kingdom is not of this world, and yet they lay hands on everything they can get.

War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow man.

Only when the last tree is cut, only when the last river is polluted, only when the last fish is caught, will they realize that you can't eat money.

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

And money can't buy everything. For example: poverty.

Dir-se-ia que a avidez súbita, a ideia fixa do dinheiro o transformava, inclusive fisicamente.

Criminals were a lazy bunch. If they weren't, they'd get their MBAs and rob with impunity.

perennial truths of financial history. Sooner or later every bubble bursts. Sooner or later the bearish sellers outnumber the bullish buyers. Sooner or later greed turns to fear.

The wish to acquire more is admittedly a very natural and common thing; and when men succeed in this they are always praised rather than condemned. But when they lack the ability to do so and yet want to acquire more at all costs, they deserve condemnation for their mistakes.