1,220 Quotes About Greed

Men kill for many reasons, they steal but for one-greed.

Much wants more and loses all.

The worker picked up Pakhom’s spade, dug a grave, and buried him - six feet from head to heel, exactly the amount of land a man needs.

In selfish men caution is as secure an armour for their foes as for themselves.

There is only one right way to eat a steak - with greed in your heart and a smile on your face.

Choose altruism, because selfishism is a lonely, cold, dark hole.

The Utopians wonder how any man should be so much taken with the glaring doubtful lustre of a jewel or a stone, that can look up to a star or to the sun himself; or how any should value himself because his cloth is made of a finer thread: for how fine soever that thread may be, it was once no better than the fleece of a sheep, and that sheep was a sheep still for all its wearing it.

I disagree. You want to bring back someone that you've lost. You might want money. Maybe you want women. Or, you might want to protect the world. These are all common things people want. Things that their hearts desire. Greed may not be good, but it's not so bad, either. You humans think greed is just for money and power! But everyone wants something they don't have.

We live in a world where we give our pounds to those who have too much and our pennies to those who have too little