Quotes About Greed

Behind every corrupt politician are 10-20 corrupt businessmen.

The one word that no politician will ever speak, is 'enough.' Enough.

It is only in our country that you see that not just invaders but politicians have robbed us, too.

I get the feeling a lot of politicians are there to help themselves financially, first and foremost.

What I loathe is the multi-national conglomerates who must take responsibility for the degradation and pollution of so much of our landscape with their factory farming and greed.

The rich rob the poor, and the poor rob one another.

When I was a child, I was very poor and wanted everything. So when I got money, I began buying things.

And plenty makes us poor.

Any industry where there's a lot of money to be made and there are poor people involved, there's going to be some exploitation on some level.

I'm carrying so much pork, I'm beginning to get trichinosis.

If you go back, 'The Great Gatsby' would be a portrait of the rich and fortune made by business.

Anyone can be seduced by the possession of power and influence.

But you can't be possessed by your possessions. Those are just things.

There's only one thing money won't buy, and that is poverty.

Affluence creates poverty.

Holy poverty confounds cupidity and avarice and the cares of this world.

Poverty wants some, luxury many, and avarice all things.

All I know is that Conservatives aren't interested in helping anybody but themselves get richer.

I look about my house and see there are lots of lovely things in it, but I constantly buy more.

The market controls everything, but the market has no heart.

If 'Crazywala' is about the state of politics in our country, 'Nawab Basha' is about how money controls most of our lives.

Life, especially in America, is ruled by corporations.

American corporations hate to give away money.

We have screwed with our environment. We have a culture that's going crazy, and it's all being propelled by the trillion-dollar advertising corporations.