Greediness Quotes

Good is not good, unless A thousand it possess, But doth waste with greediness.

Money is the worst currency that ever grew among mankind. This sacks cities, this drives men from their homes, this teaches and corrupts the worthiest minds to turn base deeds.

The great corrupter of public man is the ego.

I don't understand when people are being greedy or mean, when they say who should get what, when they get control of someone else's life.

If you want to steal, steal a little in a nice way. But if you steal too much to become rich overnight, you'll be caught.

Wealth conquered Rome after Rome had conquered the world.

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.

The modern Left is not driven by fairness. It is guided by an ideology of greed and envy. Those are vices, not virtues.

Greed is the inventor of injustice as well as the current enforcer.

Money is evil.

When a miser contents himself with giving nothing, and saving what he has got, and is in other respects guilty of no injustice, he is, perhaps, of all bad men the least injurious to society; the evil he does is properly nothing more than the omission of the good he might do. If, of all the vices, avarice is the most generally detested, it is the effect of an avidity common to all men; it is because men hate those from whom they can expect nothing. The greedy misers rail at sordid misers.

First off, I have to mention what is undoubtedly the greatest phenomenon of the modern era: All You Can Eat Buffets.

I'm not a real greedy guy.

Sufficient to say, greed is a deadly deed. You shall not covet your neighbor's goods.

I didn't want to be greedy. It's a mark of bad character and I always believed that pigs go the slaughterhouse.

It means zero to be against greed.

We did not find it difficult to deal with Bush and his administration, because it is similar to regimes in our countries - both types include many who are full of arrogance and greed.

Callous greed grows pious very fast.

Wealth and want equally harden the human heart, like frost and fire both are alien to human flesh. Famine and gluttony alike drive nature away from the heart of man.

I am a greedy actor, and I want the best roles to come my way.

Greed is normally balanced by fear.

I am not content at all. I am a very greedy actor, I just want to keep exploring myself.

… a creed of greed

I think one of the most pervasive evils in this world is greed and acquiring money for money's sake. Once you have six houses and a plane, it's just about a number. It's never been anything I understood.

The everyday kindness of the back roads more than makes up for the acts of greed in the headlines.