Quotes About Greed

Well, I am happy, and I won't fret; but it does seem as if the more one gets the more one wants, don't it?

So I did! Well, I am happy, and I won't fret, but it does seem as if the more one gets the more one wants, doesn't it?

it does seem as if the more one gets the more one wants, doesn't it?

Money is the means and the ends of my mercenary existence.

I do think we are and shall be great consumers.

I never met a man who had such a love of money.

Wanting to emulate the big killings of his brothers, he was tempted again and again into foolhardy ventures.

Washington frowned upon these Puritan descendants as greedy, sanctimonious hypocrites, telling Joseph Reed that "there is no nation under the sun (that I ever came across) pay greater adoration to money than they do.

Doubtless embarrassed, he contested insinuations that he was motivated by greed instead of a humble desire to serve God or humanity.

When avarice takes the lead in a state, it is commonly the forerunner of its fall.

As he watched people scheme and grovel for Rockefeller's fortune, it was hard to preserve his faith in human nature.

disse Serena.

These are the four that are never content: that have never been filled since the dew began- Jacala's mouth, and the glut of the kite, and the hands of the ape, and the eyes of Man.

Witta feared nothing - except to be poor.

Money dominates everybody except those who do not want money. Rudyard Kipling in an address at McGill University in 1907

Father argued that society as a whole must come to be organized on a different basis than greed, for while material interests gained somewhat by the institutionalized deification of pure selfishness, ordinary men and women lost everything by it.

What makes a person want so much? What gives things the power to enchant, and is there any limit to the desire for more?

I have always despised the capitalist greed and imperialist hubris that have motivated it.

Greed and envy took from a man's heart everything but—well, greed and envy.

Pealegi tabab karistus täitmatu ahnuse eest inimest alati siis - ja just seles seisneb karistuse piinarikas, hävituslik jõud - , kui tal on tunne, et ihaldatud eesmärgini on jäänud vaid samm.

Hasta los más hábiles hombres caen, e ignominiosa es su caída cuando en bello ropaje ocultan infames palabras para servir a su avaricia.

Midnight has many children; the offspring of Independence were not all human. Violence, corruption, poverty, generals, chaos, greed and pepperpot… I had to go into exile to learn that the children of midnight were more varied that I— even I—had dreamed.

When Don Anastasio Somoza fled the country, he took with him everything he could carry, including all the cash in the national treasury. He even had the bodies of Tacho I and Luis Somoza dug up and they, too, went into exile. No doubt he would have taken the land as well, if he'd known how.

Midnight has many children; the offspring of Independence were not all human. Violence, corruption, poverty, generals, chaos, greed and pepperpots … I had to go into exile to learn that the children of midnight were more varied than I—even I—had dreamed.