Quotes About Greed

If you love things, you will strive to objectify yourself in terms of money, power, pleasure, and prestige—idols all. You will worship yourself—or, at least, a two-dimensional cutout of yourself.

Conquer anger through gentleness, unkindness through kindness, greed through generosity, and falsehood by truth.

Coal mining is an industry rife with mismanagement, corruption, greed and an almost blatant disregard for the safety, health and quality of life of its work force. Everyone knows this. Everyone has always known it.

The quest for riches darkens the sense of right and wrong.

Why are we in this mess, now facing the prospect of economic armageddon? It's because the prevailing characteristic has been greed, and it doesn't matter whether it's individuals living beyond their means or governments living beyond their means or people seeking to get rich quick.

I've learnt that money comes very quickly, but it leaves even quicker.

People seem to take as much offence as they possibly can these days - it's almost a new type of greed, a new kind of road rage.

The pride of dying rich raises the loudest laugh in hell.

Party-spirit at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.

Gifts make slaves.

For the minimum-wager with Caligulan needs, the glory days are soon over.

If you view life as a gold rush, you're going to end up worshiping a golden calf. And when you call for help, and that golden calf can't respond, you go under.

The fundamental evil of the world arose from the fact that the good Lord has not created money enough.

If work was a good thing, the rich would have it all and not let you do it.

the way the Americans strive for gold; and their breathless haste in working - the true vice of the new world.

The Mouser grinned as he poked about with his gaze at the nastily slimed cobbles and the dead bodies and the scattered hardware. "Cat's Claw must be here somewhere," he muttered, "and I did hear the chink of gold.…" "You'd feel a penny under the tongue of a man you were strangling!" Fafhrd told him angrily.

In our modern world, illusion and greed generally walk hand in hand. The Black Gondolier

Der verschlingener des Lebens'—'The Devourer

Judas took the money back to the temple priests. So is it always. When we give up our Lord for any earthly thing sooner or later it disgusts us; we no longer wanted it.

No, not rich, he said. I am a poor man with money, not the same thing.

In that case there will be no danger of his performing any evil action, since he practises temperance and despises money: all evil actions that men undertake are done either at the prompting of greed or under the spell of pleasure

Wanting more majors, wanting more wins, almost feels like I think I'm being too greedy.

Money can't buy wins.

Of prosperity mortals can never have enough.