Quotes About Greed

Like me, she has scruples. Why is it that only people with money have scruples? Do we have no money BECAUSE we have scruples?

His farewell feast shows that he possessed means, but we must not take for granted that they were dishonestly earned. This only we may safely say, that if the publican disciple had been covetous, the spirit of greed was now exorcised; if he had ever been guilty of oppressing the poor, he now abhorred such work.

...existence has become an unreasoning, wild dance around the golden calf, a mad worship of God Mammon. In that dance and in that worship man has sacrificed all his finer qualities of the heart and soul — kindness and justice, honor and manhood, compassion and sympathy with his fellowman.

An avaricious man might be tempted to betray the interests of the state for the acquisition of wealth. No. 75

Bloody bullocks, beggin' your pardon, gentlemen, but they'd take the wooden leg off a cripple to kindle a fire!

She'd always said that there must be something very bad about money, because those who needed it most never had it, and so many who had it would do such awful things to get more of it. The

A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.

Party-spirit, which at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.

Party-spirit at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.

Do not value money for any more nor any less than its worth; it is a good servant but a bad master.

I know of no country, indeed, where the love of money has taken stronger hold on the affections of men and where a profounder contempt is expressed for the theory of the permanent equality of property.

The main source of our wealth is goodness. The affections and the generous qualities that God admires in a world full of greed.

Gluttony is wrong. It's wasteful.

Somewhere along the way to free-market capitalism, the United States became the most wasteful society on the planet.

I'm greedy, but I've always watched what I eat because I want to look good. I gave up butter, cream and sugar years ago.

How many BMWs do you need? How many Rolex watches you gonna wear in your lifetime, for crying out loud? What is it about that kind of desire? I don't understand it.

Watching 'Profit' is like peering into a fishbowl and watching a piranha at work.

I'm greedy for good films, and will test waters in new territories as long as I get to satiate that greed.

Money is just a way of keeping score.

It's not in my mission to work against Euroskepticism; it's my mission to work for fair markets. In antitrust, what is at stake is, in some ways, as old as Adam and Eve because it is about greed, to get more.

We are in danger of destroying ourselves by our greed and stupidity. We cannot remain looking inwards at ourselves on a small and increasingly polluted and overcrowded planet.

Money is the root of all evil, and yet it is such a useful root that we cannot get on without it any more than we can without potatoes.

We cannot sacrifice our safety to the murderous greed of drug cartels. We cannot stand idly by as drop houses, kidnappings and violence compromise our quality of life.

Italians know about human nature - they understand human nature perhaps better than anyone else does. They know that people are weak and greedy and lazy and dishonest and they just try to make the best of it; to work around it.