Quotes About Greed

That like the pigs, we all have our heads in the trough. While the hogs don't believe in God, the American dream, or the pen being mightier than the sword, they do believe in the feed in the same desperate way we believe in the Sunday paper, the Bible, black urban radio, and hot sauce. On

In America today you can murder land for private profit. You can leave the corpse for all to see, and nobody calls the cops.

it is an insulting delusion of many people who, like me, have cushy jobs in the public sector to imagine that workers in the private sector are driven by greed and fear. The evidence suggests that job satisfaction is actually considerably higher in the private sector; for example, people are far less likely to use illness as a reason for not going to work.

Our affluence does not make us selfish; it simply enables us to afford more sophisticated expressions of selfishness.

When I opt for a me-centered "more," what I actually get is always much, much less.

There is no investment as poor as investment in the kingdom of self!

Avarice is fear sheathed in gold.

The entire essence of America is the hope to first make money -- then make money with money -- then make lots of money with lots of money.

the more self-focused we become in trying to avoid pain and service our pleasures, the more we fall victim to greed and not sharing

Radix omnium malorum est cupiditas.

No way. He said if I went to bed with him, he'd name me in his will. So I did it, and now, guess what, he's dead." "Congratulations." "No. Read it! Paragraph seventeen." She thrust the document in front of Steve's eyes, and he read aloud. "'Finally, I promised Ms. Gina Capretto that I would name her in my will. Hello, Gina.

We queers of Revelation hill...died of the greed of power, because we were expendable. If you mean to visit any of us, it had better be to make you strong to fight that power. Take your languor and easy tears somewhere else. Above all, don't pretty us up. Tell yourself: None of this ever had to happen. And then go make it stop, with whatever breath you have left. Grief is a sword, or it is nothing.

Greedy corporations sought profits above all else and a corrupt Senate did nothing to stop them

There's something impoverished in those who want to really have everything.

What a beautiful inspirational model for how human beings might live: In a shared economy based not on greed but on nurturing relationships and mutual cooperation.

If I say I'm an oil man, you will agree.

Loyal par paresse, honnête par lâcheté, bon par relâchement, doux par crainte, intelligent par avidité, sobre par hygiène - c'est ainsi que l'on peut avoir toutes les vertus.

War: a massacre of people who don't know each other for the profit of people who know each other but don't massacre each other.

The medical industry doesn't want to cure cancer. The industry would lose too much money, too many jobs, and too much power.

Although it is so evident when you look at nature that there is incredible abundance, the united ego of mankind in mass hysteria about lack, rushes to destroy the planet in order to get its piece of the pie before it all "runs out.

He wanted everything there was to have, and more than that.

This war was only about greed, it seemed to me, and insanity. Adolf Hitler was a madman—everyone knew that—but he was also a child, a red-faced, angry baby bent on total dominion.

The poem seemed to be about how naturally dignified animals are and how their lives make more sense than those of humans, which are cluttered with greed and self-pity and talk of a distant God.

This war was only about greed, it seemed to me, and insanity. Adolf Hitler was a madman—everyone knew that—but he was also a child, a red-faced, angry baby bent on total dominion. There had been a time, perhaps, when the world could have joined forces to stop him, but that had come and gone. Now, there was only a chance to temper the size of the catastrophe, to staunch the loss of lives, thrashing back against evil with torches or pitchforks.