Greed Quotes

Greed is all right, by the way I think greed is healthy. You can be greedy and still feel good about yourself.

Ivan F. Boesky

Gold conjures up a mist about a man, more destructive of all his old senses and lulling to his feelings than the fumes of charcoal.

Charles Dickens

There was no safety. There was no pride. All there was, was money. Everything became money, and money became everything. Money treated us as if we were things, and we died.

Terry Pratchett

Avarice, the spur of industry.

David Hume

Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's need, but not every man's greed

Mahatma Gandhi

There are men who dig for gold; [Monseigneur Bienvenu] dug for compassion.

Victor Hugo

Greed, like the love of comfort, is a kind of fear.

Cyril Connolly

There is thy gold, worse poison to men's souls,Doing more murder in this loathsome world,Than these poor compounds that thou mayst not sell.

William Shakespeare

The point is that you can't be too greedy.

Donald Trump

From top to bottom of the ladder, greed is aroused without knowing where to find ultimate foothold. Nothing can calm it, since its goal is far beyond all it can attain. Reality seems valueless by comparison with the dreams of fevered imaginations; reality is therefore abandoned.

Emile Durkheim

You show me a capitalist, and I'll show you a bloodsucker.

Malcolm X

God forgives the sin of gluttony.

Proverb

Avarice is the vice of declining years.

George Bancroft

Wars and revolutions and battles are due simply and solely to the body and its desires. All wars are undertaken for the acquisition of wealth; and the reason why we have to acquire wealth is the body, because we are slaves in its service.

Socrates

It is not the want, but rather abundance that creates avarice.

Michel de Montaigne

Genuflection before the idol or the dollar destroys the muscles which walk and the will that moves.

Victor Hugo

To hazard much to get much has more of avarice than wisdom.

William Penn

...Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.

Stephen King

If your desires be endless, your cares and fears will be so too.

Thomas Fuller

What win I, if I gain the thing I seek?A dream, a breath, a froth of fleeting joy.Who buys a minute's mirth to wail a week?Or sells eternity to get a toy?For one sweet grape who will the vine destroy?Or what fond beggar, but to touch the crown,Would with the sceptre straight be strucken down?

William Shakespeare