Quotes About Greed

And their greed was for gold or God. They collected souls as they collected jewels.

God can rid your heart of greed, but it's your responsibility to remove yourself from situations that promote greediness.

We Americans worship the almighty dollar! Well, it is a worthier god than Heredity Privilege.

Uncle Scrooge preferred to let the poor die "and decrease the surplus population." Scrooge may not have had God on his side, but his arithmetic was impeccable.

One of the things capitalism does is, it does enhance and exacerbate the sin of pride, making yourself, the material world the center of your universe, instead of God's will.

Greed is your god, Kaz."He almost laughed at that. "No, Inej. Greed bows to me. It is my servant and my lever.

If I were to sit down and count them, how many of my prayers were tainted by the seduction of greed? None, simply because nothing of that sort is a prayer.

Bad taste creates many more millionaires than good taste.

I think greed is healthy. You can be greedy and still feel good about yourself.

Greed is good to most economists. It's greed that makes people work harder, be more productive and helps the economy grow.

Someone reminded me I once said, 'Greed is good.' Now it seems it's legal.

What's good for the very rich might not be good for anybody but them.

And gold has no name, it licks the hand of anyone who has it: good dog!

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

The first sign of tyranny is government's complicity in privatizing the commons for private gain.

People sometimes ask me, because of the blacklisting, "Do you hate the government? Don't you hate white people?" No, it's greed that's the problem.

Greed is at the bottom of most of the wrong-doing with which government has to deal.

The role of government is to create responsible greed to keep boundaries around what people do.

Government is a kind of legalized pillage.

Government is about stealing and nothing else. That's all it's ever been about. That's all it'll ever be about.

Corporations and their government minions are capable of anything...just look at the frauds the recent wars became known as. Hundreds of thousands killed in the name of corporate "liberation".

Because the sad fact is that the Enron Corporation and others manipulated with unfortunately great effect the energy market in the West Coast starting in 2000.

Greed, for lack of a better word, is good.

Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right, greed works.