1,220 Quotes About Greed

Sometimes you just have to know when the battle you’re fighting is one best walked away from, than fought to the cold, bitter end.

This wasn't a person, Zuzana thought, this was greed wearing skin.

You want Paradise, you gotta build it on war, on blood, on envy and naked greed.

The events of the Titanic disaster can be seen as a symbol of what happens through overconfidence in technology, complacence, and a mindset of profits over people's safety.

Contrary to popular opinion, we are all a vast brotherhood of human beings whose very survival hinges not on what we keep, but on what we give. And it is in the giving that we not only survive to live another day, but we thrive to celebrate another day.

I don't know which I hate most my bills or the money I pay them with...

I am chaos eternal. I desire everything this world and the next offers. I am greed, I am hunger. Oh how I hunger... I want the pathetic mortals of this world to bow before me. I want all that they own, all they desire, every marvelous creation of theirs, but there is only one thing in this world that I need, and that, Muse, is you.

Where excess lies, usually someone had to give something up for the other to get it.

The amount of gold someone has is never the issue, but rather the love of it and the want of more for personal gain that consumes the hearts of many good people.