Quotes About Greed

The incestuous relationship between government and big business thrives in the dark.

Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.

The face of "evil" is always the face of total need.

Desire of having is the sin of covetousness.

Who buys a minute's mirth to wail a week?Or sells eternity to get a toy?For one sweet grape who will the vine destroy?

Immortal gods, I crave no pelf;I pray for no man but myself:Grant I may never prove so fond,To trust man on his oath or bond.

See, sons, what things you are!How quickly nature falls into revoltWhen gold becomes her object!

No man's pie is freedFrom his ambitious finger.

My daughter! O my ducats! O my daughter!Fled with a Christian! O my Christian ducats!Justice! the law! my ducats, and my daughter!A sealed bag, two sealed bags of ducats,Of double ducats, stol'n from me by my daughter!

Saint-seducing gold.

Nothing comes amiss, so money comes withal.

A purse of gold most resolutely snatched on Monday night and most dissolutely spent on Tuesday morning.

They are as sick that surfeit with too much as they that starve with nothing.

We go to gain a little patch of groundThat hath in it no profit but the name.

He that wants money, means, and content, is without three good friends.

William Shakespeare

What the critics saw from book to book—but failed to detect as a linkage among all of them—was Steinbeck's anger. He was America's most pissed-off writer. "All his work," Gray wrote, "steams with indignation at injustice, with contempt for false piety, with scorn for the cunning and self-righteousness of an economic system that encourages exploitation, greed, and brutality.

The economy as it is currently structured would grind to a halt if we ever looked at our stuff and simply declared, "It is enough. I am happy with what I have.

The world is too much with us; late and soon, 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!

The world is too much with us.

Why do you rob banks, Willie?) Because that's where the money is.

The hand that dips into the bottom of the pot will eat the biggest snail.

As through this world I rambled I've seen lots of funny men. Some will rob you with a six-gun And some with a fountain pen.

Some will rob you with a six-gunAnd some with a fountain pen.