Quotes About Greed

Behind the deceptive words designed to entice people into supporting violence -- words like democracy, freedom, self-defense, national security -- there is the reality of enormous wealth in the hands of a few, while billions of people in the world are hungry, sick, homeless.

Maybe money can't buy love - but it can get you practically everything else.

The greatest concentration of recorded experience and observation came out of the thirty-year span between 1860 and 1890—the period covered by this book. It was an incredible era of violence, greed, audacity, sentimentality, undirected exuberance, and an almost reverential attitude

Attachment to money will always create insecurity no matter how much money you have in the bank.

Karma means always wanting more of what won't get you anywhere in the first place.

It is greed to do all the talking but not to want to listen at all

People sometimes rationalize their greed by saying that it is all for the good of their children but this is nothing but an excuse they use to make their despicable actions appear respectable and praiseworthy.

Hebzucht heeft geen kleur.

Stephanie could see the greed seep into the watery eyes of her father's other brother, a horrible little man called Fergus, as he nodded sadly and spoke sombrely and pocketed the silverware when he thought no one was looking

Look what the mortals are doing to themselves. Look at what they've done to the world. They're bleeding the planet dry. They're poisoning the air, the land and the sea, and they know exactly what they're doing,

Valuing knowledge above all else results in a lust for power, and that leads men into dark and empty places.

I'm fat because I'm greedy, and if my mind is fat it's because I'm curious.

The world is crazy about amassing guns, bombs and wealth of humongous proportions, but it will not give knowledge a second glance!

There are two kinds of leaders: those who are interested in the flock, and those who are interested in the fleece.

That's what wrong. We've got people whose wallets have not been baptized.

Windows plastered with advertisements for all the things we were supposed to want that were killing us.

Some day, even the experts will figure out, that crime is not caused by rap music ... or even my music, but by a power structure of self-absorbed property owners so brain dead and stupid they won't even see that if you're too goddamn greedy to pay taxes for schools and services, they're not going to be any good any more! And that uneducated time bombs are a very poor investment as a future work force.

Sadly, when you give someone evil exactly what they want, they only crave more. This group wants all the power they can get their hands on.

The day I am unaware of my privileges and unmoved by my greed is the day something has to change.

Excess has impaired perspective in America.

you're a greedy egomaniacal fathead for wanting more than you already have.

If you allow yourself to make all the money you need to flourish and live out your desires, it does not mean you are, or will become, a greedy, selfish, Earth-ruining bastard.

Greed comes from the same lack mindset as poverty.

Their crops and possessions are being taken to build fortresses and buy warships so that a heartless queen and a false prince can attack realms that have not attacked us.