Greed Culture Quotes

This America has been the country of greed rather than the country of need.

We all seem to be about aggression and greed. It's a massive pressure that affects us all.

Deregulation created this epidemic of greed which according to the rules of capitalism was OK. Beyond that there was criminal behaviour. There have been no repercussions and it's hard to make your peace with.

I think the main focus in America is - is basically greed.

To an age which has unashamedly sold itself to the gods of greed, pride, sex, and self-will, the church mumbles on about God's kindness but says virtually nothing about his judgment... The fact is that the subject of divine wrath has become taboo in modern society, and Christians by and large have accepted the taboo and conditioned themselves never to raise the matter.

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

I know that the fantastic amount of profit that people want to make on anything is damaging. And that none of us seem able to resist it.

The mood of the 80s - Get what you can, can what you get, and sit on the can.

'Eureka' was very bad timing. The early 1980s: Reagan and Thatcher were in, greed was good, and here was a film about the richest man in the world who still couldn't be happy. Politically and sociologically, it was out of step.

People think you're crazy if you turn money down... people worship money.

The decline of manners, the cynical pursuit without shame or restraint of personal advantage and of money characterizes our times, not without exceptions, of course, but more than we ought to be comfortable with.

We lost our way and allowed greed and excess to become the twin pillars of too much of the financial culture. We became a society utterly absorbed in consumption and dismissive of moderation.