Quotes About Greed

The railroad they built yonder wasn't even a decent road, but they'd been granted all that land by a rotten Congress that they'd bought up—land on both sides of the tracks for miles and miles, east and west. That's what they were after, you see. They got all that land along the right of way—hundreds of thousands of acres—and it never cost them a cent of their own money.

Money talks, but tell me why all it says is just Goodbye.

It is impossible for me to be an Anarchist, for I do not believe in the essential goodness of man. The world, the physical world, that was once all in all to me, has at moments such as these no road through a wood, no stretch of shore, that can bring me comfort. The beauty of these things can no longer at such moments make up to me at all for the ugliness of man, his cruelty, his greed, his lying face.

When the biggest, richest, glassiest buildings in town are the banks, you know that town's in trouble.

Capitalism: Nothing so mean could be right. Greed is the ugliest of the capital sins.

All gold is fool's gold.

One thing more dangerous than getting between a grizzly sow and her cub is getting between a businessman and a dollar bill.

A house built on greed cannot long endure.

Standing there, gaping at this monstrous and inhumane spectacle of rock and cloud and sky and space, I feel a ridiculous greed and possessiveness come over me. I want to know it all, posess it all, embrace the entire scene intimately, deeply, totally...

But the love of wilderness is more than a hunger for what is always beyond reach; it is also an expression of loyalty to the earth, the earth which bore us and sustains us, the only home we shall ever know, the only paradise we ever need—if only we had the eyes to see. Original sin, the true original sin, is the blind destruction for the sake of greed of this natural paradise which lies all

But the love of wilderness is more than a hunger for what is always beyond reach; it is also an expression of loyalty to the earth, the earth which bore us and sustains us, the only home we shall ever know, the only paradise we ever need—if only we had the eyes to see. Original sin, the true original sin, is the blind destruction for the sake of greed of this natural paradise which lies all around us—if only we were worthy of it.

They were not serving the public interest, but their immediate personal interest, and it was nothing to them what the ultimate effect of their course on the general prosperity might be, if but they increased their own hoard, for these goods were their own, and the more they sold and the more they got for them, the greater their gain. The more wasteful the people were, the more articles they did not want which they could be induced to buy, the better for these sellers.

There is a strange and mighty race of people called the Americans who are rapidly becoming the coldest in the world because of this cruel, man-eating idol, lucre.

Oh, the North Countree is a hard countreeThat mothers a bloody brood;And its icy arms hold hidden charmsFor the greedy, the sinful and lewd.And strong men rust, from the gold and the lustThat sears the Northland soul.

If you get melted chocolate all over your hands, you're eating it too slowly.

Water flows uphill towards money.

Those who believe money can do everything are frequently prepared to do everything for money.

He that trusteth in his riches shall fall.

Thy money perish with thee.

Which devour widows' houses, and for a pretense make long prayers.

When you're on top of the world, every motherf*cker wants to get a piece of your *ss.

Bulls make money. Bears make money. Pigs get slaughtered.

At least a bank robber uses his arms to steal money. I am using money to steal an arm.

There are no bigger GOONs than politicians.