Quotes About Greed

The society is the extension of the individual. If the individual is greedy, cruel, merciless, egoistic, etc. so it will be the society.

I think it's the society that drains us out, and we are in a society where we are driven by money.

Businessmen in society are not going to be the ones that promote anything outside of money.

Does money upset the hearts of learned men? He answered, "men whose hearts are changed by money are not learned"

You can never get enough of what you don't need, because what you don't need won't satisfy you.

The happiness and peace attained by those satisfied by the nectar of spiritual tranquillity is not attained by greedy persons restlessly moving here and there.

the conspicuous consumption of limited resources has yet to be accepted widely as a spiritual error, or even bad manners

Anger-pride-deceit-greed are in the form of 'discharge'. But if one does not have 'knowledge of True Self' (realization of the self), then he 'charges' new karmas within.

To misuse wealth is a great fault.

The riskiest thing you can do is get greedy.

That is why our arts and sciences cannot improve the world, despite what liberal philanthropists say. Our vast new scientific skills are first used by the damnably greedy selfish impatient parts of our nature and nation, the careful kindly social part always comes second.

Creo que la negativa al servicio militar por razones de conciencia, en caso que fiera hecha por cincuenta mil soldados, sería un poder irresistible. El individuo solo no puede obtener mucho. Aunque tampoco puede ser deseable que justamente los seres de más valor sean objeto de la destrucción por parte de esa maquinaria detrás de la cual se esconden tres grandes poderes: Imbecilidad, Temor y Codicia.

The system is a monster which devours people for the sake of its profits.

The divine in human nature disappears and interest, greed and selfishness takes it place. When a Republic begins to plunder its neighbors the words of doom are already written upon its walls.

The more one gets the more one wants

Pero parece que cuanto más se recibe más se quiere...

The fitchew nor the soiled horse goes to't with a more riotous appetite.

Greedy contemplatives want to possess themselves of the light without bothering about compassion.

this was a consequence of increasing prosperity, which, curiously enough, just seemed to bring out greed and selfishness.

Everybody wanted to look after the world, but nobody wanted to give up anything they already had.

Tell him that riches will not procure for you a single moment of happiness. Luxury consoles poverty alone, and at that only for a short time, until one becomes accustomed to it.

Why does a steward steal? He steals because he's not sure he'll always remain with his master and wants to make his future secure.

Danglars was one of those men born with a pen behind the ear, and an inkstand in place of a heart. Everything with him was multiplication or subtraction.

Chicago was "the only great city in the world to which all its citizens have come for the one common, avowed object of making money