1,220 Quotes About Greed

Consumption kept the workers working, which kept the paychecks coming, which kept the people spending, which kept the investors investing, which meant there was more to consume. The system, properly understood, was independent of values and needed no philosophy to prop it up. It was a perfect circle, complete in itself - and empty in the middle.

Control the coinage and the courts—let the rabble have the rest.

Only a heart that denies itself can come between need and greed.

Greed can be the unwillingness to give OR the willingness to take.

It is not greed that drives the but envy.

To make your Opinion Count,you have to do something morethan just making Money.

It is not greed that drives the world but envy.

Pure science is divinely inspired. It is a godsend, a blessing from spirit, a sacred mandate, an act of divine providence. It is a heavenly gift to the people. It does not belong to the corrupt merchants, money lenders and Pharisees, who have turned the temple of science into a den of thieves.

Everybody knows I was a millionaire. And from there to killing me because they think I'm carrying fifty or a hundred thousand francs around isn't a very long step.