Quotes About Greed

Most of the mess that is called history comes about because kings and presidents cannot be satisfied with a nice chicken and a good loaf of bread.

What I saw next stopped me dead in my tracks. Books. Not just one or two dozen, but hundreds of them. In crates. In piles on the floor. In bookcases that stretched from floor to ceiling and lined the entire room. I turned around and around in a slow circle, feeling as if I'd just stumbled into Ali Baba's cave. I was breathless, close to tears, and positively dizzy with greed.

In moments, I clutched at the notion of some larger "me" that could contain and justify my contradictory behavior, but more often I simply felt like the scene of two irreconcilable visions, two different people, one unerringly loyal and faithful, the other treacherous and greedy.

money making money making money into a giant fucking tower of bullshit.

path of descent becomes our own liberation. We are freed from the exhausting stance of defense. We are no longer compelled to be right and are thus relieved from the burden of maintaining some reputation. We are released from the idols of greed, control, and status. The pressure to protect the house of cards is alleviated when we take the lowest place.

As awful as it sounds, money is power, and power is magnetic.

Yet one of the most important things we have to learn is how to cope with abundance and with our hunger for yet more abundance

This was the time when the rush for the spoils filled a corner of the forest with the yelping of hounds, the cracking of whips, the flaring of torches. The appetites let loose were satisfied at last, shamelessly, amid the sound of crumbling neighbourhoods and fortunes made in six months. The city had become an orgy of gold and women.

You see, everything is fine so long as you make money by it." These last words seemed to freeze the serious men. The conversation dropped flat, and each appeared to avoid his neighbour's eyes.

Yes, all you French workers have that one idea: you want to dig up a treasure and live on it for evermore in selfish and lazy isolation. You make a great song against the rich, but when fortune give you some money you haven't the guts to give it back to the poor. You will never deserve to be happy so long as you have personal possessions, and your hatred of the bourgeois simply comes from your mad desire to be bourgeois yourselves in their place!

You are a dog in the manger, Cathy, and desire no one to be loved but yourself!

he was always greedy; though what he grasps with one hand he flings away wit the other.

It is strange people should be so greedy when they are alone in the world!

It is so strange people should be so greedy, when they are alone in the world!

Industry is the ceaseless piracy of the rich against the poor.

Politics is the reflex of the business and industrial world, the mottos of which are: "To take is more blessed than to give"; "buy cheap and sell dear"; "one soiled hand washes the other.

My truffles? You took them? That's just mean!

gold is power-artemis fowl I liked the artemis fowl series because its about a boy genius

steal from the rich and give to the poor. Well, maybe just steal from the rich.

My truffles?" gasped Opal. "You took them. That's just mean.

If anything except the honourable is good, we shall be hounded by greed for life, and by greed for the things which provide life with its furnishings, – an intolerable state, subject to no limits, unstable. The only good, therefore, is that which is honourable, that which is subject to bounds.

You can never get enough of what you don't really need.

You can never have enough of that which you don't need.

we can never have enough of that which we really don't want