Quotes About Greed

Elevation of today's generation, if I can make them listen. Prisons ain't what we need, no longer stuck in greed.

The problem with people nowadays is that a 'necessity' is any luxury your neighbor happens to have.

If you believe that happiness can be bought, then why don't you try selling some of yours?

What's the matter with the world? Why, there ain't nothing but one word wrong with everyone of us, and that's selfishness.

Greed has always been humanity's downfall

Neither poverty nor wealth is in the wallet. They are all in the mind.

Human beings are obscured by their desire to have and their greed to own preventing their natural cause of "being

Those who have nothing give everything and those who have everything give nothing.

I never want to make screw-you money like the rest of the financial services industry.

Will we act, or will we sit on our hands? I don't want to show up on that day only to hear God say, "This nation—where is My church? There's still too much sin, too much covenant with Baal, too much pornography, too much perversion, too much materialism, greed, pride, and arrogance. They have missed their hour of grace; only judgment awaits.

Humans will market anything to make a fucking profit. Religion, war, love, hate, sex, violence, pain, humor, emotion... all for fucking paper. We are pathetic beings.

Treachery and acrimony are the wares that endure in the family heirs."

The world is too much with us; late and soon,' " he said, quoting Wordsworth. " 'Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers;/ little we see in Nature that is ours;/ we have given our hearts away, a sordid boon!

I jumped right to the heart of the matter and preached the taproot of sin, which is found in the middle of the word, itself—I! I want this, I want that, and I want it right now. I want to run things, I want to call the shots, I want be in charge. . .

The two men were greedily hunched over the table, like two wolves disputing a carcass, but their muttered speech in the echoing hall resembled more the grunting of pigs. One was less than a wolf: he was a public prosecutor. The other was more than a pig, he was a chief commissioner of police.

Why are men ever at war? For power and greed and to enforce their own views on others.

Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything it is because we are dangerously near to wanting nothing.

Greed is a fat demon with a small mouth and whatever you feed it is never enough.

Köyhä vihaa rikasta luonnostaan, sen on verissä. Tulee aina hetki jolloin lompakkokreivit pannaan lyhtytolppaan niin kuin sika teurauskoukkuun. Sitten sika syödään. Mutta kasvaa uusia, jotka lihovat kuin niitä ruokitaan. Kunnes kävelevät kahdella jalalla kuin sadussa.

Selling something only to steal it back to sell again is not only dishonest, but highly profitable.

Neither greed for power nor thirst for glory are as dizzy as the passions of love

business battles serve as financial-page porn.

If it weren't for greed, intolerance, hate, passion and murder, you would have no works of art, no great buildings, no medical science, no Mozart, no Van Gough, no Muppets and no Louis Armstrong.

If it weren't for greed, intolerance, hate, passion and murder, you would have no works of art, no great buildings, no medical science, no Mozart, no Van Gogh, no Muppets and no Louis Armstrong.