Quotes About Greed

Legal plunder has two roots: One of them, as I have said before, is in human greed; the other is in false philanthropy.

The politician attempts to remedy the evil by increasing the very thing that caused the evil in the first place: legal plunder.

The functional defect of socialism is that it is not social. It has not helped the poor man by eradicating the prince; it has only made the prince poor. If it has not put a chicken in every pot, it has removed the peacock from every lawn. It has made liberality a casualty of an artifact called liberalism. Such may satisfy the motive of envy; it is irrelevant to the motive of charity, and in the collectivist bosom it engenders the very greed it scorned.

I embody death, not peace. The only choice in this world we have made from our betrayals and our weakness and our greed.

A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.

Wealth isn't evil, Kate. It's the love of money that is. When no matter how much you have is never enough.

Communal/managed economics have always been more destructive of their societies than those driven by greed

I'm getting old, he thought. I've felt the cold hand of my mortality. And in what? An old woman's greed.

Memories rolled in his mind like the toothless muttering of old women. He remembered open waters and waves - days of grass instead of sand - dazed summers that had whipped past him like windstorms leaves. [...] I'm getting old, he thought. I've felt the cold hand of my mortality. And in what ? An old woman's greed.

A volte coloro che erano supremamente ricchi diventavano depravati. Ciò derivava dalla loro convinzione che il denaro (il potere) potesse comperare tutto e tutti. E perché non avrebbero dovuto crederlo? Lo vedevano accadere tutti i giorni. Era facile credere negli assoluti.

Power attracts the corruptible.

Wait till you see-at the same time that your family is dying for lack of bread-a hundred thousand acres of wheat-millions of bushels of food-grabbed and gobbled by the Railroad Trust, and then talk of moderation. That talk is just what the Trust wants to hear. It ain't frightened of that. There's one thing only it does listen to, one things it is frightened of-the people with dynamite in their hands,-six inches of plugged gaspipe. That talks.

Republicans stand for raw, unbridled evil and greed and ignorance smothered in balloons and ribbons.

La avaricia, sin duda, es uno de los signos mas auténticos de la infelicidad profunda

Where do the evils like corruption arise from? It comes from the never-ending greed. The fight for corruption-free ethical society will have to be fought against this greed and replace it with 'what can I give' spirit.

He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.

From 1983 to 2000, William Goren stole more than $30 million from investors on Long Island and in Queens. His favorite targets were widows and retired couples, like Helga and Simon Novack, Holocaust survivors who gave Mr. Goren their life savings.

If we go on the way we have, the fault is our greed and if we are not willing to change, we will disappear from the face of the globe, to be replaced by the insect.

There is a lesson there about greed and it is a lesson I am willing to learn as well. Has it made me a distrustful person? I don't think so. But we probably look a bit more carefully at our financial situation now.

'Wall Street' was the big movie of 1987, the year in which Harveys opened. It was a film about greed and self-indulgence, about hunger for success, and Michael Douglas's line, 'breakfast is for wimps,' became a mantra for anyone who wanted to get to the top.

Winning is everything in Hollywood.

A man with a briefcase can steal millions more than any man with a gun.

It is better to take what does not belong to you than to let it lie around neglected.

Harveys opened against the backdrop of Thatcher's greed culture.