Quotes About Greed

D.C. is more corrupt than Hollywood. It really is.

What happens when you get any kind of entrenched power is that it just becomes kind of corrupt and self-serving.

In a way, I think the whole business is pretty corrupt. It's like anything else where people make a lot of money - it's really hard for the little guy.

The corruption of the American soul is consumerism.

Corruption never has been compulsory.

I'm very interested in how corruption works - and it's not necessarily the way one might expect.

Corruption is everywhere, man.

There's corruption in many parts of the world.

Unhampered corruption breeds more corruption.

Money costs too much.

Of course, I do everything for money.

Capitalism is in crisis.

I think that people need to become more educated about money. We need to stop creating systems that benefit only the most-cutthroat sharks.

Supermarket tabloids and celebrity gossip shows are not just innocently shallow entertainment, but a fundamental part of a much larger movement that involves apathy, greed and hierarchy.

One dirty tactic big pharmaceutical companies use is keeping drug prices artificially high through anti-competitive conduct, such as paying competitors millions of dollars to stop them from creating generic drugs.

By the 1980s, businesses had realized that environmental issues had a price tag. Increasingly, they balked. Reflexively, the anticorporate Left pivoted; Earth Day, erstwhile snow job, became an opportunity to denounce capitalist greed.

Human beings are just animals who will just eat and take advantage of any source of energy until it runs out, and then there'll be catastrophe.

This is a cutthroat business full of greedy individuals who take advantage of naive young artists.

When you are rich, people try to take advantage of you.

Nothing is so strongly fortified that it cannot be taken by money.

Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Taking on corporate greed is an environmental concern.

When there is money, there is also greed. Everyone wants to talk to you when there is money. Only if you have the passion for it, you must become a philanthropist, else it'll become a headache.

Always remember, money isn't everything - but also remember to make a lot of it before talking such fool nonsense.