Quotes About Greed

Ambition is so powerful a passion in the human breast, that however high we reach we are never satisfied.

Once we were happy in our own country and we were seldom hungry, for then the two-leggeds and the four-leggeds lived together like relatives, and there was plenty for them and for us. But the Wasichus came, and they have made little islands for us and other little islands for the four-leggeds, and always these islands are becoming smaller, for around them surges the gnawing flood of the Wasichu; and it is dirty with lies and greed.

But as the web matured during the late 1990s, the dreams of a digital awakening went unfulfilled. The net turned out to be more about commerce than consciousness, more mall than commune. And when the new millennium arrived, it brought not a new age but a dispiritingly commonplace popping of a bubble of earthly greed.

Wanting everything is the thing that eventually tears you apart.

Where Christianity disappears, greed, envy, and lust invent a thousand ideologies to justify themselves.

Man forges his own history, imposing on nature the errors of his free will. If hatred and greed drag man down among bloody mazes, the struggle is joined between perverted freedoms and just freedoms.

Natural disasters devastate a region less effectively than the alliance of greed and technology.

Despising money is like toppling a king off his throne.

The banking collapse was caused, more than anything, by bad government policy and the total failure of bad regulation, rather than by greed.

but what he liked above everything else was a cheque. "It is a thing," he used to say, "to which it is not easy to find an equivalent; it requires no food, it does not take up much room, it stays in one's pocket, and if it falls, it is not broken.

avaricia, la cual, como es sabido, tiene hambre de lobo: cuanto más devora, menos se sacia.

income, income is what these patriots want! Mother, father, God—they'll sell them all for money, the ambitious Judases! It's all ambition,

But money, like gravity, is a force that clumps, drawing in more and more of itself, eventually creating the black hole that we know as wealth. This is not simply the fault of humans. Ask any dollar bill and it will tell you it prefers the company of hundreds to the company of ones. Better to be a sawbuck in a billionaire's account than a dirty single in the torn pocket of an addict.

When we commit to waking up and revolting against the ignorance and oppression of classism, racism, sexism, and all forms of greed, hatred, and delusion in the world, the first step we must take in that revolt is a personal dedication to purify our actions from these things that cause harm.

In this nation, leadership is dollars.

Chicago was a town where nobody could forget how the money was made. It was picked up from floors still slippery with blood.

The more things you own, the more things you need to keep you comfortable.

Fa male vedere uomini e donne impegnati in una folle corsa verso la terra promessa del guadagno, dove tutto ciò che li circonda – la natura, gli oggetti, gli altri esseri umani – non suscita alcun interesse.

Transformando a los hombres en mercancías y dinero, este perverso mecanismo económico ha dado vida a un monstruo, sin patria y sin piedad, que acabará negando también a las futuras generaciones toda forma de esperanza.

Such leaders knew that they could depend on fear, suspicion, hatred, need, and greed to arouse patriotic support for war.

As a country, we've given up our birthright for even less than bread and pottage. We've given it up for nothing—although I'm sure some people somewhere are richer now.

Human beings are good at creating hells for themselves, even out of richness.

Once people get the idea that it's all right to take what you want and destroy the rest, who knows when they'll stop.

Politicians and big corporations get the bread, and we get the circuses.