Quotes About Greed

Happiness lies in conquering one's enemies, in driving them in front of oneself, in taking their property, in savoring their despair, in outraging their wives and daughters.

Trying to be happy by accumulating possessions is like trying to satisfy hunger by taping sandwiches all over your body

There are two ways to get enough. One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less.

There is happiness in the love of labor, there is misery in the love of gain.

No one who had once learned to identify happiness with wealth ever felt that he had wealth enough.

You can never get enough of what you don't need to make you happy.

When we are not rich enough to be able to purchase happiness, we must not approach to near and gaze on it in shop windows.

Everyone needs a certain amount of money. Beyond that, we pursue money because we know how to obtain it. We don't necessarily know how to obtain happiness.

Avarice and Happiness never saw each other, how then should they become acquainted?

Happy the person who has learned the cause of things and has put under his or her feet all fear, inexorable fate, and the noisy strife of the hell of greed.

Heap up great wealth in your house, if you wish, and live as a tyrant, but, if the enjoyment of these things be lacking, I would not buy the rest for the shadow of smoke as against happiness.

Whoever opined "Money can't buy you happiness" obviously had far too much of the stuff.

Wealth hath never given happiness, but often hastened misery.

Money is human happiness in the abstract he then who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete devotes himself utterly to money.

What had he ever wanted that he could not buy? And if that wasn't riches he didn't know what was.

The Gesundheit Institute is a pie in the face of greed - by taking the most expensive thing in America, health care, and giving it away for free.

Greed, accident, or malice may have harmful results, but, barring something truly apocalyptic, a resilient system can absorb such results without its overall health being threatened.

Civilization is a limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities.

Most of the mess that is called history comes about because kings and presidents cannot be satisfied with a nice chicken and a good loaf of bread.

The discovery of America was the occasion of the greatest outburst of cruelty and reckless greed known in history.

Thieves at home must hang; but he that puts Into his overgorged and bloated purse The wealth of Indian provinces, escapes.

Thy treasures of gold Are dim with the blood of the hearts thou hast sold; Thy home may be lovely, but round it I hear The crack of the whip, and the footsteps of fear.

Society is based on discontent: people wanting more and more and more, being continually dissatisfied with their homes, their bodies, their decor, their clothes, everything.

Pride avarice and envy are in every home.