Quotes About Greed

Life is easy, life is delightful. It's only hard on your illusions, your ambitions, your greed, your cravings.

Expand your property, increase your wealth, enlarge your walls. And when each new treasure you drag inside your walls doesn't relieve your pain? Go get some more.

It was the garden of a man who wanted to rule the world but couldn't, and so had cut the world down to his own size.

You see the world this way because you're greedy and mad. People give to charity because they want to help.

To enjoy something fully, you had to own it. And if you couldn't buy it, then you would have to steal it.

saw it in the papers. When he took that fifty grand off Diana Cowper, it looks like he was ripping her off.' 'Maybe she knew something about him. It could have given him a reason to kill her.

He wants to make money! And he doesn't care if he trashes my life to get it. I told you. That man is vile. He should never have come to this island. He's positively evil.

Nobody's been saved. And more often than not, the killer's got what he wanted. He's inherited the money. He's got rid of his wife. It's very unlikely he's going to kill anyone else.

Fast money? Would you rather get boardwalk on your first roll or would you rather win the game of monopoly?

The USA — its future as a nation and as a political, social, economic, and moral ideal — is now in the control of a few powerful individuals, groups, institutions, and nations. Those in control have shown little interest or concern for the nation and its citizens. They are the new robber barons of the old Gilded Age. And,

If you talk to most businessmen, they'll say that what they do is for the public good, but you know they're just greedy, and consumers are just consuming for the sake of their own greed.

The illegitimate money made by corrupt public servants and the power that it gives them is then also used to perpetuate them in office. This corrupt money is one of the main factors responsible for the continued reelection of such politicians. They become masters of the people they are supposed to serve.

A fool and his money get a lot of publicity.

When Puffy asked me to do the video, I said yes. Cuz it's all about the Benjamins!

Please don't begin to believe that the American political establishment is anything but a corrupt puppet of oligarchy.

The CD, it should be noted, was born out of greed. It was devised to prop up record sales on the expectation of people replenishing their record collections with CDs of albums they had already purchased.

There's nothing pure about capitalism.

We all mouth the fact that material possessions don't make you happy but we still pursue them.

Every child was taught from his cradle that money was Mammon, the chief agent of the flesh and the devil.

There's a lot of bad isms floating around this world, but one of the worst is commercialism.

In America, the top 1 percent led the country into war and economic devastation, leaving the less fortunate to fight for one and pay for both.

People will always want a free lunch.

There's a difference between a free market and free-for-all market.

There is a fundamentalist belief by capitalists that capital will save the world, and it just isn't so.