Maureen Dowd Quotes

As to those who hoard gold and silver and spend it not in God's path, give them, then, the tidings of a painful agony: on a day when these things shall be heated in hell-fire, and their foreheads, and their sides, and their backs shall be branded therewith.

Any time there is a lot of money or ego involved, people tend to behave badly.

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

Of mankind we may say in general they are fickle, hypocritical, and greedy of gain.

When money comes into play then that's all it's about wanting money, who's making the most who can get the most, me, me me... and in the end it screws up the person and the sport.

We have seen that in this country in the last few years, particularly on Wall Street, with the rise of the old human frailty of greed. This occurs when people begin to serve only their own needs to the detriment of everyone else.

One must beware of ministers who can do nothing without money, and those who want to do everything with money.

They who are of the opinion that Money will do everything, may very well be suspected to do everything for Money.

Greed, greed, greed. That’s the fundamental problem of mankind. If we can solve that problem, the rest of man’s problems would follow. The only thing that can undermine our free society is greed.

It would be necessary to eliminate the excessive regard and esteem for wealth, because the craving for riches erodes the desire for true glory, prevents the cultivation of the virtues and results in countless seizures of what belongs to others, as well as many other dishonorable actions.

I think that money is the root of all evil. I've seen it happen.

Great eagerness in the pursuit of wealth, pleasure, or honor, cannot exist without sin.

Just as he who gives his life to serve a great idea is admirable, he who avails himself of a great idea to serve his personal hopes of glory and power is abominable, even if he too risks his life.

Money is evil.

The man whose only pleasure in life is making money, weighs less on the moral scale than an angleworm.

I don't understand it. Jack will spend any amount of money to buy votes but he balks at investing a thousand dollars in a beautiful painting.

Greed has taken the whole universe, and nobody is worried about their soul.

Once you start thinking about it in a mercenary frame of mind, then you're finished. You're a joke, because there are too many mercenaries out there already.

I always feel that crime films are about capitalism because it is a genre where it is perfectly acceptable for all the characters to be motivated by the desire for money. In some ways, the crime film is the most honest American film because it portrays Americans as I experience a lot of them, in Hollywood, as being very concerned with money.

But men are so full of greed today, they'll sell anything for a little piece of money.

There are still people in Japan who think money is something evil.

Money is the fruit of evil, as often as the root of it.

The curse of covetousness is that it destroys manhood by substituting money for character.

I think that money spoils most things, once it becomes the primary motivating force.

Run for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That sentence is the leper's bell of an approaching looter.