Quotes About Greed

I can never be satisfied I always look for more.

I do not want to grow for the sake of growth. Never will I be blinded by greed.

The love of money is the root of all evil, therefore selfishness must be the seed.

There is enough in the world for everyone's need, but not enough for everyone's greed.

No thank you to all the bustas, cowards, and FAKE HOMIES who showed me the depths of jealousy, envy and greed.

Purity means lack of hatred, jealousy, fear, greed and lust - the absence of anything that can stain consciousness.

As we grow up, we are exposed to hate and greed and anger and jealousy and peanut brittle and all kinds of things, our subtly body erodes.

They don't understand that a slice of the pie isn't the whole pie - but they wonder why they are always hungry

Wealth tends to create enemies, whereas knowledge tends to warm hearts.

In matters of money there's no such thing as enough.

The slave has but one master, the ambitious man has as many as can help in making his fortune.

We read on the foreheads of those who are surrounded by a foolish luxury, that fortune sells what she is thought to give.

We're not Christians, we're capitalists," he said. "Everybody in this whangdanged country is a capitalist, whether he likes it or not. Everyone in this country is one of the world's most voracious consumers, using resources at a rate twenty times greater than that of anyone else on this poor earth. And Christmas is our golden opportunity to pick up the pace.

I'd like to turn on the whole world for just a moment... just for a moment. I'm greedy; I'd like to keep most of it for myself and a few others, a few of my friends... to keep that superlative high, just on the cusp of each day... so that I'd radiate sunshine.

If one knew there would be enough then one wouldn't grab. That was another thing that was bad about the way we used to be. It was all grab grab grab while one could in case tomorrow one couldn't.)

To borrow against the trust someone has placed in you costs nothing at first. You get away with it, you take a little more and a little more until there is no more to draw on. Oddly, your hands should be full with all that taking but when you open them there's nothing there.

As long as there are rich people in the world, they will be desirous of distinguishing themselves from the poor.

That greed of yours has got to be a skeeter in more than just my drawers.

There are many greedy and clever human animals in this world, but few human beings. Authentic human beings are so rare that I would even go so far as to say that we do not live in a truly human world.

The one thing that offends me the most is when I walk by a bank and see ads trying to convince people to take out second mortgages on their home so they can go on vacation. That's approaching evil.

We will flush greed out of our system or be flushed away by it.

He felt that anything he wanted ought to be his no matter what.

Wanting things to be different from what they are is suffering. Attraction and aversion, greed and hatred, lust and ill will: These are the attachments that cause suffering. "I like that; I want more"—"I dislike this; make it stop": Letting go of these attachments is the end of suffering. Release from this unsatisfactory predicament is the goal of life, whether we are aware of it or not.

Our bellies are empty and our patience is short...submit to us and we will make of you a great quiche!' 'Again with the QUICHE?! What kind of self-respecting monster would eat a DAINTY PASTRY DISH?! STEW is what we will make of their bones!' 'Don't get greedy on me! There's three of them! I just want the little one for my quiche!' 'It was nothing to do with greed! It's a matter of principle! MONSTERS DO NOT EAT QUICHE!