Unrestrained Greed Quotes

Ambition is one of the more ungovernable passions of the human heart. The love of power is insatiable and uncontrollable …

When once ambition has passed its natural limits, its progress is boundless.

All Kings are to be reckon'd amongst ravenous Beasts

The vainglory of wishing to understand is dangerous, immoral and, above all, old-fashioned. The modern way – perhaps the final way - is to say: Go forward, without knowing why, as quickly as possible.

Unrestrained greed means the ruin of the great woods and the drying up of the sources of the rivers.

It is the nature of tyranny and rapacity never to learn moderation from the ill-success of first oppressions; on the contrary, all oppressors, all men thinking highly of the methods dictated by their nature, attribute the frustration of their desires to the want of sufficient rigor.

We soon found that the white men were growing rich very fast, and were greedy.

Individualism degenerates into disease without limits.

Greed is good.

Greed is not a financial issue. It's a heart issue.

The writer's greed is appalling. He wants, or seems to want, everything and practically everybody, in another sense, and at the same time, he needs no one at all.

Avarice, the sphincter of the heart.