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Quotes About Greed

There won't be any love to spare in this world as long as there's five francs.
~ Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Il y avait ces cent sous entre nous . Ça suffit pour haïr, cent sous, et désirer qu'ils crèvent tous. Pas d'amour à perdre dans ce monde, tant qu'il y aura cent sous .
~ Louis-Ferdinand Celine
La burguesía es una podredumbre perfecta. Nunca, desde los tiempos bíblicos, nos ha sobrevivido una plaga más insidiosa, más obscena y más degradante que la viscosa sujeción burguesa. ¡Una clase astutamente tiránica, codiciosa, rapaz, y tartufesca hasta la médula!
~ Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Bukan kegagalan uang merupakan kejahatan, tapi cita-cita yang dangkal
~ Lucy M. Montgomery
He can't get broke so long as he is stuffed with money.
~ Lyman Frank Baum
Americans are being poisoned, all in the name of profit, producing a weak-minded race of people who are given to lust and desire.
~ Lynn Cullen
Whenever you see this much wealth, assume that someone dirtied his hands. Fortunes don't come to saints.
~ Lynn Cullen
Whenever you see this much wealth, assume that someone dirtied his hands. Fortunes don't come to saints.
~ Lynn Cullen
mas a avareza é apenas a exageração de uma virtude e as virtudes devem ser como os orçamentos: melhor é o saldo que o deficit.
~ Machado de Assis
those who sought power were greedy, wanting gifts, and bribes, and willing to steal from the poor.
~ Madeleine L'Engle
You can cuss out colonialism, imperialism, and all other kinds of ism, but it's hard for you to cuss that dollarism. When they drop those dollars on you, your soul goes.
~ Malcolm X
The longing for a very garish kind of success seems as widespread among writers as among investment bankers.
~ Pankaj Mishra
The political Greeders mindset wastes resources that could transform the future of tens of millions of people and the destinies of the countries.We need to rethink Leadership and politics.
~ Tony Dovale
Most Leadership is Greedership dressed up in sheeps' clothing pretending to care for humanity.
~ Tony Dovale
Leaders cannot build a successful nation once they are yoked to these two evils, ignorance and greed.
~ Wayne Chirisa
Leaders cannot build a successful nation once they are yoked to these two evils, ignarance and greed.
~ Wayne Chirisa
Wealth seldom fails to breed the fear of poverty.
~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Good deeds are only done when there's a profit margin.
~ Prince Ea
The clearest version of vision, backed by the purest grade of greed is a ripen file of failure.
~ Israelmore Ayivor
If you want to find money, focus on people. If you want to lose people, focus on money.
~ Rob Liano
I vote far-left. I am frequently angered by corporate greed and think education ought to be free and teachers paid well.
~ Eleanor Catton
But money, if not mastered, can bring ruin as well as riches
~ Amitav Ghosh
The neighborhood drug dealer kicks out his wife. He moves in a girlfriend and the wife finds out. The wife lets herself back into the house and steals a hundred thousand dollars that the drug dealer can't report missing. The drug dealer's wife goes to India, where she sends her husband a cable: The people here are poor so I gave them all your money.
~ Amy Hempel
If you are greedy, what is inside you is what makes you always hungry.
~ Amy Tan