Quotes About Greed

The bourgeois takes economic power very seriously, and often worships it quite unselfishly.

There are always people willing to commit unspeakable human atrocity in exchange for a little power and privilege.

We have turned away from the natural world. Instead, it's all about money and power.

When we talk about power, we talk about Wall Street.

What those people who ask for equality have in mind is always an increase in their own power to consume.

Occupy Wall Street means making Wall Street and the corporate power elite understand that the people affected by the binge of unregulated greed are not going away, and they are not going to give up.

Lust of power is the most flagrant of all the passions.

People think that if everyone knows the power of the LOA there won't be enough to go around .. This is a lie that's been ingrained in us and makes so many greedy.

I think what's happened is that the general public has become much more aware of the destructive power of Wall Street.

What has patriotism come to be but greed and false pride, when the only way it can show itself is by shedding blood to gain gold? More economic advantage, more territory, more power.

The desire for power feeds off itself, growing as it devours.

Curst greed of gold, what crimes thy tyrant power has caused.

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What most people call "chaos" is actually incredibly predictable and maddeningly boring - greed, close-mindedness, warring over power.

We run to place and power over the dead bodies of those who fail and fall; ay, we win the food we eat from out the mouths of starving babes.

Ambition's monstrous stomach does increase By eating, and it fears to starve, unless It still may feed, and all it sees devour; Ambition is not tir'd with toll nor cloy'd with power.

Power calls to those who are hungry for power, and there are hungry idiots everywhere.

Politics is ugly. Never doubt what small men will do for great power.

We are at best but stewards of what we falsely call our own; yet avarice is so insatiable that it is not in the power of liberality to content it.

Being a human is a great power. One can obtain everything. However, it is the greed that harasses him.

Lust for power, greed, false religions reign today because of lack of vision and passion to redeem nations

Power will always attract the greedy and the weak.

Desire for power is a kind of greed indulged by the unfulfilled

Ill gotten power, money knowledge and qualifications will vanish faster than realized