Quotes About Greed

the room. "Now it seems anyone's son can get an education, and a business, and become rich. The merchant guilds: the Mercers, the Spicers and their like, grow steadily in wealth and influence. Jumped-up, posturing commoners dictating to their natural betters. Their fat and greedy fingers, fumbling at the strings of power. It is almost too much to stand." He gave a shudder as he paced across the floor.

Men are greedy, aren't they? No gratitude. They don't think about what they've already got from you, only about what they can get next.

Humanity is worse than flies. If even one dried nugget of offal survives the flames, we'll be swarming all over it. Fighting about who owns it and selling the most fragrant chunks to the wealthy and the gullible.

It is criminal to steal a purse, daring to steal a fortune, a mark of greatness to steal a crown. The blame diminishes as the guilt increases.

Materialism is KFC for the soul.

Armut ist ohne Zweifel das Schrecklichste, mir dürft' einer 10 Millionen hinlegen und sagen, ich soll arm sein dafür, ich nehmet's nicht.

We read on the foreheads of those who are surrounded by a foolish luxury, that fortune sells what she is thought to give.

I don't think you can ever make enough to be set for life. Well, I guess there are limits. In the billions, I guess.

Greed probably figures in my intellectual life as well, as I attempt to absorb a massive amount of information with consequent mental indigestion.

Thriftless ambition, that wilt ravin up Thine own life's means!

In this world laws are written for the lofty aim of "the common good" and then acted out in life on the basis of the common greed.

If it were not for certain people's greed for wealth, the highways would be filled with cars powered by the sun, and no one would be starving. Such advances are technologically and physically possible, but apparently not emotionally possible.

Whoever dies with the most stuff wins.

Men still walk around like the US of A is a big cake store and all the cake is for them.

Whoever dies with the most stuff wins. Wins what? is what I'd like to know.

For the old people in my family (...) the accumulation of beautiful objects is a life goal. Whoever dies with the most stuff wins. Wins what? is what I'd like to know.

The accumulation of beautiful objects is a life goal. Whoever dies with the most stuff wins. Wins what? is what I'd like to know.

The aims of battle and the fruits of conquest are never the same;

Her idea of business— "Henry, why do people who have enough money try to get more money?" Her idea of politics— "I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars

I hate banks. They do nothing positive for anybody except take care of themselves. They're first in with their fees and first out when there's trouble.

Wealth wants to be able to do whatever the fuck it wants to... And it's winning the war.

lot of money over

All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.

A rapacious and licentious soldiery.