Quotes About Greed

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

Ah, Caderousse,' said Andrea, 'how covetous you are! Two months ago you were dying with hunger.' 'The appetite grows by what it feeds on,' said Caderousse.

I know of no country, indeed, where the love of money has taken a stronger hold on the affections of men.

As one digs deeper into the national character of the Americans, one sees that they have sought the value of everything in this world only in the answer to this single question: how much money will it bring in?

The love of wealth is . . . to be traced, either as a principal or an accessory motive, at the bottom of all that the Americans do...

Alt?n bir çaÄŸ yaÅŸan?yordu; benzersiz maceralar, zengin yaÅŸam ve zor ölüm devriydi bu . . . ama kimse öyle düÅŸünmüyordu. Servet ve h?rs?zl?kla, yaÄŸma ve çapulculukla, kültür ve ahlaks?zl?kla dolu bir gelecekti bu . . . ama kimse bunu kabul etmiyordu. A??r?l?klar?n ça??yd?, hilkat garibelerinin büyüleyici yüzy?l? . . . ama kimse bundan hoÅŸlanm?yordu.

There was a spark inside that holiest of holy places that made people want to possess it, and what men yearn for they often destroy.

Because I know. Grown-up white men don't want to pretend to be anything else. Not even for a minute." "They'll become anything for as long as it takes to steal some land.

We've never seen weather like the weather there is today. We've never seen violence like the violence we see today. We've never seen greed or evil like the greed and evil we see today. We've never seen tomatoes either, like the ones being created today. There is much from which to recoil.

Human beings may well be unable to break free of the dictatorship of greed that spreads like a miasma over the world, but no longer will we be an inarticulate and ignorant humanity, confused by our enslavement to superior cruelty and weaponry.

the narcotic tobacco haze of Capitalism

Mammon, n. The god of the world's leading religion. His chief temple is in the city of New York

TARIFF, n. A scale of taxes on imports, designed to protect the domestic producer against the greed of his consumer.

We must subdue our detestable habit of shaking hands with prosperous rascals and fawning upon the merely rich.

Wall street, n. a symbol of sin for every devil to rebuke. That wall street is a den of thieves is a belief that serves every unsuccessful thief in place of a hope in heaven

the more you give a man, the more he demands, and the less happy he becomes. No one ever appreciates what he gets for nothing.

Gold and silver is everything to everyone. Some of us have enough of it to pretend otherwise.

You killed him all to bits, and robbed everyone who knew him, and cut all the good he might ever do out of the world.

swear, the more you give a man, the more he demands, and the less happy he becomes. No one ever appreciates

El oro y la plata lo son todo para todos. Algunos tenemos suficiente para poder fingir que no.

The King needs money, so he squeezes the nobles. The nobles squeeze their tenants, the tenants squeeze the peasants. Some of them, the old, the weak, the extra sons and daughters, they get squeezed right out the bottom. Too many mouths to feed. The lucky ones make thieves or whores, the rest end up begging.

swear, the more you give a man, the more he demands, and the less happy he becomes. No one ever appreciates what he gets for nothing.

There's always something dark about a man with money

Money is a different thing to every man, Bialoveld wrote, but always a good thing.