1,220 Quotes About Greed

What does it matter who is ruler of a realm that no longer exists?

The inflated ego of the tyrant is a curse to himself and his world – no matter how his affairs may prosper. Self-terrorized, fear-haunted, alert at every hand to meet and battle back the anticipated aggressions of his environment, which are primarily the reflections of the uncontrollable impulses to acquisition within himself. The giant of self-achieved independence is the world’s messenger of disaster, even though, in his mind, he may entertain himself with humane intentions.

This is what greed does to humans, Abel thinks. It makes them ignore the love they have in favor of what they can never attain.

Kakistocracy protects kleptocrats. They all wear the evil, manipulative gloves of greed and power play. ~ Angelica Hopes, Karmic Harvest Trilogy

Excessive, unmatched greed is the oxygen of every abusive, manipulative, destructive, narcissistic Machiavellian power players of today’s kakistocracy, kleptocracy, injustice, corruption, and impunity. ~ Angelica Hopes, Karmic Harvest Trilogy

For how long would you row in a boat of suffering, resiliency, despair, grief, pain, and loss, a fragile boat of apathy and fearful silence, as you sail along the huge waves of corruption, storms of kakistocracy and kleptocracy, the windy whiplash of painful injustice, the tumultuous, continuous waves of violence, and the bloody sea of impunity engulfing indefinitely the Pearl of the Orient Seas?~ Angelica Hopes, Karmic Harvest Trilogy

They eat one another. They eat us. They eat every damn thing. They'll drink up the whole world if we let them.

People don't want much until they have plenty, and then they want more and more.

Everyone's gonna think it's about the money. But who doesn't fucking want money? It's about why you want money, how you get it, then what you do with it that matters.