Greed Quotes
By Alan Reiner – July 18, 2024
‘Greed is not a financial issue. It’s a heart issue.’ – Andy Stanley
‘We are in danger of destroying ourselves by our greed and stupidity. We cannot remain looking inwards at ourselves on a small and increasingly polluted and overcrowded planet.’ – Stephen Hawking
‘Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction.’ – Erich Fromm
‘There is a sufficiency in the world for man’s need but not for man’s greed.’ – Mahatma Gandhi
‘Leadership is a privilege to better the lives of others. It is not an opportunity to satisfy personal greed.’ – Mwai Kibaki
‘The ignorant mind, with its infinite afflictions, passions, and evils, is rooted in the three poisons. Greed, anger, and delusion.’ – Bodhidharma
‘Privacy is not for sale, and human rights should not be compromised out of fear or greed.’ – Pavel Durov
‘Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we’re looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn’t test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power.’ – P. J. O’Rourke
‘Greed is so destructive. It destroys everything.’ – Eartha Kitt
‘Where do the evils like corruption arise from? It comes from the never-ending greed. The fight for corruption-free ethical society will have to be fought against this greed and replace it with ‘what can I give’ spirit.’ – A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
‘For greed all nature is too little.’ – Lucius Annaeus Seneca
‘Lust and greed are more gullible than innocence.’ – Mason Cooley
‘Greed is the lack of confidence of one’s own ability to create.’ – Vanna Bonta
‘The hypocrisy of some is that we like to think of ourselves as sophisticated and evolved, but we’re still also driven by primal urges like greed and power.’ – Michael Leunig
‘It is greed to do all the talking but not to want to listen at all.’ – Democritus
‘A man must fortify himself and understand that a wise man who yields to laziness or anger or passion or love of drink, or who commits any other action prompted by impulse and inopportune, will probably find his fault condoned; but if he stoops to greed, he will not be pardoned, but render himself odious as a combination of all vices at once.’ – Apollonius of Tyana
‘Do not follow vain desires; for verily he who prospers is preserved from lust, greed and anger.’ – Abu Bakr
‘Ignorance, hatred and greed are killing nature.’ – Masanobu Fukuoka
‘I believe in the sun. In the tangle of human failures of fear, greed and forgetfulness, the sun gives me clarity.’ – Joy Harjo
‘Nothing makes us more vulnerable than loneliness, except greed.’ – Thomas Harris
‘If we go on the way we have, the fault is our greed and if we are not willing to change, we will disappear from the face of the globe, to be replaced by the insect.’ – Jacques Yves Cousteau
‘Greed is the inventor of injustice as well as the current enforcer.’ – Julian Casablancas
‘When there is money, there is also greed. Everyone wants to talk to you when there is money. Only if you have the passion for it, you must become a philanthropist, else it’ll become a headache.’ – Sudha Murty
‘But love, like the sun that it is, sets afire and melts everything. what greed and privilege to build up over whole centuries the indignation of a pious spirit, with its natural following of oppressed souls, will cast down with a single shove.’ – Jose Marti
‘Fear and greed are potent motivators. When both of these forces push in the same direction, virtually no human being can resist.’ – Andrew Weil
‘From the first day to this, sheer greed was the driving spirit of civilization.’ – Friedrich Engels
‘The problem of social organization is how to set up an arrangement under which greed will do the least harm, capitalism is that kind of a system.’ – Milton Friedman
‘Microsoft is not about greed. It’s about innovation and fairness.’ – Bill Gates
‘What being a socialist means is… that you hold out… a vision of society where poverty is absolutely unnecessary, where international relations are not based on greed… but on cooperation… where human beings can own the means of production and work together rather than having to work as semi-slaves to other people who can hire and fire.’ – Bernie Sanders
‘Con men look for human frailty to exploit. This is most often greed. Trump found a different vice: anger. The emotional are always the most susceptible to manipulation.’ – Pamela Meyer
‘The only thing that stands between corporate greed and poverty is the union.’ – Lee Whitnum
‘The environment that we call society is created by past generations; we accept it, as it helps us to maintain our greed, possessiveness, illusion.’ – Jiddu Krishnamurti
‘The everyday kindness of the back roads more than makes up for the acts of greed in the headlines.’ – Charles Kuralt
‘Jealousy, greed, fear. We’re all full of these things. But also love and compassion. If you saw a drowning baby, it wouldn’t matter if you were wearing a tuxedo on the way to your own wedding. You’d jump in to save him.’ – John McAfee
‘Taking on corporate greed is an environmental concern.’ – Rashida Tlaib
‘Deregulation created this epidemic of greed which according to the rules of capitalism was OK. Beyond that there was criminal behaviour. There have been no repercussions and it’s hard to make your peace with.’ – Brad Pitt
‘We didn’t become the most prosperous country in the world just by rewarding greed and recklessness. We didn’t come this far by letting the special interests run wild. We didn’t do it just by gambling and chasing paper profits on Wall Street. We built this country by making things, by producing goods we could sell.’ – Barack Obama
‘I don’t like greed, I don’t like ignorance. I really don’t like anger. But I love love.’ – David Crosby
‘To those supporters who were told that I abandoned them, that is untrue. I abandoned greed, corruption, and compromise, never you, and never the artistic gifts and abilities that sustained me.’ – Lauryn Hill
‘There is nothing wrong with being well off as long as money has a social and ethical value and is not the object of one’s own greed.’ – Aga Khan IV
‘We already have – thanks to technology, development, skills, the efficiency of our work – enough resources to satisfy all human needs. But we don’t have enough resources, and we are unlikely ever to have, to satisfy human greed.’ – Zygmunt Bauman
‘When the Internet first came into public use, it was hailed as a liberation from conformity, a floating world ruled by passion, creativity, innovation and freedom of information. When it was hijacked first by advertising and then by commerce, it seemed like it had been fully co-opted and brought into line with human greed and ambition.’ – Neil Strauss
‘Human beings are very complex creatures. This desire, this greed, this love is very complex.’ – Yash Chopra
‘The only thing wrong with the NBA – or any other professional sport, for that matter – is a wild epidemic of Dumbness and overweening Greed. There is no Mystery about it, and no need to change any rules.’ – Hunter S. Thompson
‘If we have any hope for survival of the music that we all love, compassion must replace name-calling, fairness must replace greed, and we need to come together as a musical community and try to understand each other’s problems.’ – John Mellencamp
‘Social networks do best when they tap into one of the seven deadly sins. Facebook is ego. Zynga is sloth. LinkedIn is greed.’ – Reid Hoffman
‘India believes that the world is a family, and the best means of resolution is shared discourse. A family is shaped by love and is not transactional; a family is nurtured by consideration, not greed; a family believes in harmony not jealousy.’ – Sushma Swaraj
‘Supermarket tabloids and celebrity gossip shows are not just innocently shallow entertainment, but a fundamental part of a much larger movement that involves apathy, greed and hierarchy.’ – Joseph Gordon-Levitt
‘Capitalism is an organized system to guarantee that greed becomes the primary force of our economic system and allows the few at the top to get very wealthy and has the rest of us riding around thinking we can be that way, too – if we just work hard enough, sell enough Tupperware and Amway products, we can get a pink Cadillac.’ – Michael Moore
‘Even in a time of elephantine vanity and greed, one never has to look far to see the campfires of gentle people.’ – Garrison Keillor
‘The music industry’s actions at the time of 9/11 and since have been actions driven by patriotism in most instances, and greed and stupidity to a lesser degree. Sounds like real life doesn’t it?’ – Ronnie James Dio
‘Most of the time common stocks are subject to irrational and excessive price fluctuations in both directions as the consequence of the ingrained tendency of most people to speculate or gamble… to give way to hope, fear and greed.’ – Benjamin Graham
‘New York City is a great monument to the power of money and greed… a race for rent.’ – Frank Lloyd Wright
‘As time goes on we get closer to that American Dream of there being a pie cut up and shared. Usually greed and selfishness prevent that and there is always one bad apple in every barrel.’ – Rick Danko
‘The writer’s greed is appalling. He wants, or seems to want, everything and practically everybody, in another sense, and at the same time, he needs no one at all.’ – James Baldwin
‘Greed has taken the whole universe, and nobody is worried about their soul.’ – Little Richard
‘I like to think that my arrogance, impetuosity, impatience, selfishness and greed are the qualities that make me the lovable chap I am.’ – Richard Hammond
‘Think of Donald Trump’s personal qualities, the bullying, the greed, the showing off, the misogyny, the absurd third-grade theatrics. We have long referred to him as ‘The Donald.’ He is the only person in America to whom we have added an article before his name. It wasn’t because he had attributes we admired.’ – Mitt Romney
‘The 20th century has been marked by cynicism, selfishness, greed, and the desire to please, all without changing the status quo. In the 21st century, we must resurrect solidarity and compassion.’ – √ìscar Arias
‘An intriguing paradox of the 1990s is that it isn’t called a decade of greed.’ – Paul Samuelson
‘I have vanity and greed enough for one person. But at the same time, I feel in my bones you lose a lot of life’s value if you don’t see yourself as a member of the family of man.’ – Ralph Waite
‘In our daily life, we encounter people who are angry, deceitful, intent only on satisfying their own needs. There is so much anger, distrust, greed, and pettiness that we are losing our capacity to work well together.’ – Margaret J. Wheatley
‘The curse of the romantic is a greed for dreams, an intensity of expectation that, in the end, diminishes the reality.’ – Marya Mannes
‘This America has been the country of greed rather than the country of need.’ – Ariel Dorfman
‘We all seem to be about aggression and greed. It’s a massive pressure that affects us all.’ – Eric Cantona
‘Greed and Gain, grim guardians of the great god Mammon, continually cry in the ears of the poor, ‘Give us your little ones!’ And forever do the poor push out their little ones at the imperious ukase, feeding the children to a blind Hunger that is never filled.’ – Edwin Markham
‘Greed, like the love of comfort, is a kind of fear.’ – Cyril Connolly
‘Well first of all, tell me, is there some society you know of that doesn’t run on greed? You think Russia doesn’t run on greed? You think China doesn’t run on greed? What is greed?’ – Milton Friedman
‘Let us wage a moral and political war against the billionaires and corporate leaders, on Wall Street and elsewhere, whose policies and greed are destroying the middle class of America.’ – Bernie Sanders
‘There are a lot of people who are doing wonderful things, quietly, with no motive of greed, or hostility toward other people, or delusions of superiority.’ – Charles Kuralt
‘Well, ‘They Live’ was a primal scream against Reaganism of the ’80s. And the ’80s never went away. They’re still with us. That’s what makes ‘They Live’ look so fresh – it’s a document of greed and insanity. It’s about life in the United States then and now. If anything, things have gotten worse.’ – John Carpenter
‘What we’re seeing now is that greed is still alive and kicking, and banks are bigger than ever.’ – Brad Pitt
‘Capitalism is against the things that we say we believe in – democracy, freedom of choice, fairness. It’s not about any of those things now. It’s about protecting the wealthy and legalizing greed.’ – Michael Moore
‘The opposite of corporate greed is personal generosity. Government policies that enable the former and prevent the latter are both worthy of protest.’ – Cynthia Dill
‘If we weren’t born with anti-social passions – narcissism, envy, lust, meanness, greed, hunger for power, just to name the more obvious – why the need for so many laws, whether religious or secular, that govern behavior?’ – Dennis Prager
‘Transfer windows are pretty much the living embodiment of the seven deadly sins. Sloth, gluttony, envy, greed, lust and pride are all represented in the frenzy of the market.’ – Simon Jordan
‘We’re all basically made of the same stuff: generosity and selfishness, goodness and greed.’ – Madeleine M. Kunin
‘What I loathe is the multi-national conglomerates who must take responsibility for the degradation and pollution of so much of our landscape with their factory farming and greed.’ – Fay Godwin
‘At a time when unbridled greed, malignant aggression, and existence of weapons of mass destruction threatens the survival of humanity, we should seriously consider any avenue that offers some hope.’ – Stanislav Grof
‘It seems the BJP desperately needs to win Mumbai to stand on its feet once again. After all, the greed to win Mumbai will continue to remain, no matter how many States you win.’ – Uddhav Thackeray
‘Greed has driven the world crazy. And I think I’m lucky that I have a place over here that I can call home.’ – Nina Simone
‘Greed has been with human beings forever. We have a number of things in our species that you would call ‘the dark side,’ and greed is one of them. If you don’t put certain structures in place or restrictions on those parts of our being that come from that dark place, then it gets out of control.’ – Michael Moore
‘Greed is normally balanced by fear.’ – Peter Schiff
‘Fear tends to manifest itself much more quickly than greed, so volatile markets tend to be on the downside. In up markets, volatility tends to gradually decline.’ – Philip Roth
‘Greed probably figures in my intellectual life as well, as I attempt to absorb a massive amount of information with consequent mental indigestion.’ – Etty Hillesum
‘I think war is based in greed and there are huge karmic retributions that will follow. I think war is never the answer to solving any problems. The best way to solve problems is to not have enemies.’ – Sheryl Crow
‘Everything I had been taught to regard as a vice – and I still regard them as vices – under Thatcherism was in fact a virtue: Greed, selfishness, no care for the weaker, sharp elbows, sharp knees.’ – Glenda Jackson
‘I’m not going to have the TV personality and be like, ‘There’s no bitterness. There’s no ugliness.’ There’s bitterness. There’s ugliness. There’s pain. There’s greed. There’s malice, and there’s hurt. That’s all good stuff for any kind of art. I’m not necessarily feeding that side of myself, and I try not to encourage it too much.’ – Pete Holmes
‘The most satisfying thrillers send ordinary people into battle against the forces of evil – otherwise known as greed, ego, rage, fear and laziness – and bring them out bloodied but whole.’ – M. J. Rose
‘The basis of tragedy is man’s helplessness against disease, war and death; the basis of comedy is man’s helplessness against vanity (the vanity of love, greed, lust, power).’ – Dawn Powell
‘What the advertisers are trying to do by eliminating residuals is the most appalling form of greed that I cry thinking about it.’ – Diane Ladd
‘Fear, greed and hope have destroyed more portfolio value than any recession or depression we have ever been through.’ – James O’Shaughnessy
‘The greatest obstacle to the welfare state is not greed but private charity that makes the welfare state irrelevant; the greatest obstacle to re-education of children in the name of the collective is allegiance to a higher power. More than that, the greatest obstacle to the state as god is an actual God above the state.’ – Ben Shapiro
‘Time! Joyless emblem of the greed of millions, robber of the best which earth can give.’ – Amy Lowell
‘I don’t know how you make decisions in your life, but I weigh lots of things, and it’s not always the purest of things for why I take a job or do this. I always try to think of the many different factors in my life, and not one is pure greed. One is pure quality of life.’ – J. C. Chandor
‘The Bible and several other self help or enlightenment books cite the Seven Deadly Sins. They are: pride, greed, lust, envy, wrath, sloth, and gluttony. That pretty much covers everything that we do, that is sinful… or fun for that matter.’ – Dave Mustaine
‘The CD, it should be noted, was born out of greed. It was devised to prop up record sales on the expectation of people replenishing their record collections with CDs of albums they had already purchased.’ – John Mellencamp
‘Calm self-confidence is as far from conceit as the desire to earn a decent living is remote from greed.’ – Channing Pollock
‘John will never send a boy or girl in a uniform anywhere in the world because of our need and greed for oil.’ – Teresa Heinz
‘But at a certain point, and I don’t really know… people have asked me this. I don’t know exactly what it was that pushed me towards directing, but I think it was a naive notion that if I directed I would be able to play all the roles. A kind of greed.’ – Peter Bogdanovich
‘Looking so cool, his greed is hard to conceal, he’s fresh out of law school, you gave him a license to steal.’ – Al Stewart
‘We did not find it difficult to deal with Bush and his administration, because it is similar to regimes in our countries – both types include many who are full of arrogance and greed.’ – Osama bin Laden
‘We have seen that in this country in the last few years, particularly on Wall Street, with the rise of the old human frailty of greed. This occurs when people begin to serve only their own needs to the detriment of everyone else.’ – Lee R. Raymond
‘They have stolen the public lands. They have grasped all to themselves, and by their unprincipled greed brought a crisis of unparalleled distress on forty millions of people, who have natural resources to feed, clothe and shelter the whole human race.’ – Denis Kearney
‘I certainly understand that we’re all trying to make a living, but I’m not thinking about that when I’m making it. And if that’s your sole motivation, it’s going to reflect that narcissistic greed, and you’re going to hear it in the music.’ – Aimee Mann
‘I didn’t do it because of the underlying greed that’s prevailing, but it is about greed, doing the right thing at the right time using your clout when you have it and what for and what reason.’ – Danny DeVito
‘But men are so full of greed today, they’ll sell anything for a little piece of money.’ – Little Richard
‘Undoubtedly there are, in connection with each of these things, cases of fraud, swindling, and other financial crimes; that is to say, the greed and selfishness of men are perpetual.’ – William Graham Sumner
‘The beast for me is greed. Whether you read Dante, Swift, or any of these guys, it always boils down to the same thing: the corruption of the soul.’ – Ben Nicholson
‘Fifa cannot sit by and see greed rule the football world. Nor shall we.’ – Sepp Blatter
‘Most individuals have always thought themselves not big enough or significant enough to have an effect on the whole planet, a notion which conversely made them think they could afford big arrogance and big greed over its resources.’ – Lynette Fromme
‘The organization and constant onward sweep of this movement exemplifies the resentment of the many toward the selfishness, greed and the neglect of the few.’ – John L. Lewis
‘We’ve been raised to compete, to want more! More! More! It’s a way of life. It’s about greed.’ – Sandy Duncan
‘Greed and globalization aren’t just America’s fault.’ – Arlo Guthrie
‘When the stock market crashed, Franklin Roosevelt got on the television and didn’t just talk about the princes of greed. He said, ‘Look, here’s what happened.” – Joe Biden
‘I think one of the most pervasive evils in this world is greed and acquiring money for money’s sake. Once you have six houses and a plane, it’s just about a number. It’s never been anything I understood.’ – Kevin Bacon
‘There is a lesson there about greed and it is a lesson I am willing to learn as well. Has it made me a distrustful person? I don’t think so. But we probably look a bit more carefully at our financial situation now.’ – Kevin Bacon
‘It’s impossible to translate Wall Street greed into one or two demands.’ – Cornel West
‘We want to bear witness today that we know the relation between corporate greed and what goes on too often in the Supreme Court decisions.’ – Cornel West
‘The banking collapse was caused, more than anything, by bad government policy and the total failure of bad regulation, rather than by greed.’ – Nigel Farage
‘To talk about balance, it’s easier to talk about what’s out of balance. And I think anytime that you have any disease, and disease meaning lack of ease, lack of flow… dis-ease. So any time there’s disease, you’re out of balance, whether it’s jealousy, anger, greed, anxiety, fear.’ – Ricky Williams
‘Obviously you have to make a profit to put out a newspaper. I’m not an idiot. But when the margins are in excess of 25 per cent you’re talking about greed.’ – Carl Hiaasen
‘Why are we in this mess, now facing the prospect of economic armageddon? It’s because the prevailing characteristic has been greed, and it doesn’t matter whether it’s individuals living beyond their means or governments living beyond their means or people seeking to get rich quick.’ – Jeremy Paxman
‘We cannot sacrifice our safety to the murderous greed of drug cartels. We cannot stand idly by as drop houses, kidnappings and violence compromise our quality of life.’ – Jan Brewer
‘I love the competitive part of stocks. A lot of fear and greed, that’s all it is. All I see is green and red.’ – Josh Brolin
‘Greed is a basic part of animal nature. Being against it is like being against breathing or eating. It means nothing.’ – Ben Stein
‘It means zero to be against greed.’ – Ben Stein
‘America needs young people to be inspired to choose sacrifice over greed.’ – Jesse Jackson
‘With Napster and the sharing of music, of course, there are going to be people who exploit it. Greed has no end. But there’s a lot of good that could happen. We shouldn’t let the economic concerns of the major labels infringe on our freedom to share music.’ – Ian MacKaye
‘Up until the Depression, recession had a moral character: it was supposed to purge the body economic of the greed and excess that attends a business expansion.’ – James Buchan
”Dallas’ hit a chord back in the late Seventies and Eighties because it was the age of greed: here you have this unapologetic character who is mean and nasty and ruthless and does it all with an evil grin. I think people related to JR back then because we all have someone we know exactly like him. Everyone in the world knows a JR.’ – Larry Hagman
‘During periods of extreme fear or greed, you don’t have the proper balance between those two to generate market efficiency and you get extremes in behavior.’ – Andrew Lo
‘While neurological studies have tried to identify components responsible for fear and greed, the impact on finance is less clear.’ – Andrew Lo
‘Greed has increasingly become a virtue among Wall Street bankers and corporate CEOs in the U.S. Nowhere else in the world do CEOs insist on receiving compensation as high compared to what their employees earn.’ – Simon Mainwaring
‘We associate the North Atlantic with cod. The motto of Newfoundland used to be ‘In cod we trust.’ It was a joke, but it was essentially true. But there is no cod anymore. And that’s extraordinary. It’s all because of either greed or politics – Canadian politics.’ – Simon Winchester
‘Occupy Wall Street means making Wall Street and the corporate power elite understand that the people affected by the binge of unregulated greed are not going away, and they are not going to give up.’ – Dana Spiotta
‘The Founders recognized that Government is quite literally a necessary evil, that there must be opposition, between its various branches, and between political parties, for these are the only ways to temper the individual’s greed for power and the electorates’ desires for peace by submission to coercion or blandishment.’ – David Mamet
‘We need to get back to reasoning and thinking things through. The future generation is being brought up in greed and without a true understanding of civics. There is no more emphasis on knowledge and time. As a society we need to process ideas and understand what certain principles are based upon.’ – Richard Dreyfuss
‘Greed can’t again lead the way. We’ve taken that route before with terrible consequences for this nation and its people.’ – Johanna Siguroardottir
‘I am guilty of stupidity, arrogance, and greed.’ – Steve Madden
‘Oh, I’m all about small business. I think what we’ve learned from big business and big Wall Street is that unchecked greed and the creation of false value gets us all in trouble. If we look at the American economy, who’s really creating value? It’s the small businesses.’ – Robert Herjavec
‘Buddhism talks about the possibility of transforming greed, hatred, and delusion. But sometimes need turns into greed.’ – Jack Kornfield
‘The moral angle to the foreclosure crisis – and, of course, in capitalism we’re not supposed to be concerned with the moral stuff, but let’s mention it anyway – shows a culture that is slowly giving in to a futuristic nightmare ideology of computerized greed and unchecked financial violence.’ – Matt Taibbi
‘The great thing about behavioural psychology and economics is that they help us to see that there are actually pretty good reasons why human beings swing from greed to fear, and why we’re not really calculating machines or utility-maximisers.’ – Niall Ferguson
‘Ideology that believes government is bad, and that public institutions and places are not valuable, is as destructive as corporate greed.’ – Cynthia Dill
‘Riots born out of political issues aren’t the same as those born out of personal greed.’ – Ross Kemp
‘The first line in the first ‘Gasland’ is: ‘I’m not a pessimist. I’ve always had a great deal of faith in people that we won’t succumb to frenzy or rage or greed. That we’ll figure out a solution without destroying the things that we love.’ I have not lost that sense.’ – Josh Fox
‘If we didn’t have greed, market economies wouldn’t be as innovative as they are. But in my view, greed has to be contained by the fear of losses, so there has to be a system where, if you take too much risk, you go into bankruptcy. You don’t systematically bail out people who take excessive risks.’ – Nouriel Roubini
‘We stress humanity, and this is done at considerable cost. We can’t have a lot of dramatics that other shows get away with – promiscuity, greed, jealousy. None of those have a place in ‘Star Trek.” – Gene Roddenberry
‘At the heart of every really good Christmas movie is the threat, I suppose, to Christmas. Something is wrong with Christmas, in all of these movies. In ‘The Polar Express,’ there’s a kid that doesn’t really believe, and that’s the threat to Christmas. In ‘Santa Claus: The Movie,’ jealousy and greed are threatening to overrun his Christmas.’ – James McAvoy
‘People talk about Wall Street greed, but one of the things many people don’t understand is that there are a lot of organizations that have been the recipient of largess from the same Wall Street.’ – Geoffrey Canada
‘Greed, accident, or malice may have harmful results, but, barring something truly apocalyptic, a resilient system can absorb such results without its overall health being threatened.’ – Jamais Cascio
‘I think it’s a shame when the arts have to suffer because of corporate greed. People will always strive to make film, and the only important thing is that we keep trying to make ourselves heard and keep making our films, no matter what the climate is.’ – Paddy Considine
‘A newspaper is a public trust, and we will suffer as a society without them. It is not the Internet that has killed them. It is their own greed, it is their own stupidity, and it is capitalism that has taken our daily newspapers from us.’ – Michael Moore
‘This society is driven by neurotic speed and force accelerated by greed and frustration of not being able to live up to the image of men and woman we have created for ourselves; the image has nothing to do with the reality of people.’ – Yoko Ono
‘Once you get involved with bloodsport litigation, you can not only get drunk on your own greed but start to believe your own lies.’ – Jello Biafra
‘If you eat junk, you look like junk. People say, ‘It’s not my fault, it’s my glands.’ It’s not; it’s greed!’ – Joan Collins
‘The greatest bad guys, you understand where they’re coming from. They believe they’re doing the right thing. Sometimes it’s for greed, sometimes it’s for other reasons, but they are what they call the center of good. They always believe they’re doing the right thing.’ – John Lasseter
‘Wall Street is broken for sure because it succumbed to greed and corruption and pure speculation with no values.’ – Deepak Chopra
‘I think greed is a critical problem – the gap between the poor and the rich. The gap between the top 10 percent and the bottom 10 percent.’ – Richard Rogers
‘If you talk to most businessmen, they’ll say that what they do is for the public good, but you know they’re just greedy, and consumers are just consuming for the sake of their own greed.’ – P. J. O’Rourke
‘Human beings may well be unable to break free of the dictatorship of greed that spreads like a miasma over the world, but no longer will we be an inarticulate and ignorant humanity, confused by our enslavement to superior cruelty and weaponry.’ – Alice Walker
‘Spinning yarns is a protection against the nuttiness… the greed, the hate all around us.’ – John D. Voelker
”Maneater’ is about N.Y.C. in the ’80s. It’s about greed, avarice, and spoiled riches.’ – John Oates
‘The desire for money may be an indication of greed, but I want to argue that greed is a much more subtle vice than simply the desire to be rich.’ – Stanley Hauerwas
‘The fact that monasticism preceded the identification of greed as a primal sin is an important reminder that our very ability to name sin is a theological achievement.’ – Stanley Hauerwas
‘The only two things you can truly depend upon are gravity and greed.’ – Jack Palance
‘Sitting with a deck of cards in your hand all day is an obsession. Visiting print shops and bookstores and libraries is an obsession. And writing about this is an obsession. I think, in general, most collectors are obsessed. I think the only form of a rationalized greed is when you’re collecting something you are supposedly serious about.’ – Ricky Jay
‘I used to get in trouble with my old agent, because I’ve never been driven by fear or need or greed. I want my work to represent me as a person, so I can be quite fussy.’ – Darren Boyd
‘I vote far-left. I am frequently angered by corporate greed and think education ought to be free and teachers paid well.’ – Eleanor Catton
‘For too long, humanity has acted with an outrageous lack of responsibility. We wanted everything for ourselves: greed, really. We failed to look at the overall picture and did not take into consideration those with whom we share the world.’ – Shari Arison
‘Large corporations, of course, are blinded by greed. The laws under which they operate require it – their shareholders would revolt at anything less.’ – Aaron Swartz
‘Man’s greed to obtain something for nothing has never yet been able to content itself with a moderate profit.’ – Will C. Barnes
‘The man Dickens, whom the world at large thought it knew, stood for all the Victorian virtues – probity, kindness, hard work, sympathy for the down-trodden, the sanctity of domestic life – even as his novels exposed the violence, hypocrisy, greed, and cruelty of the Victorian age.’ – Robert Gottlieb
‘The ethos on Wall Street has not changed, and that’s not going to come from the corner office. That’s going to come, for better or worse, from Washington, and the whole idea of greed is still good, that is still pervasive.’ – Andrew Ross Sorkin
”Eureka’ was very bad timing. The early 1980s: Reagan and Thatcher were in, greed was good, and here was a film about the richest man in the world who still couldn’t be happy. Politically and sociologically, it was out of step.’ – Nicolas Roeg
‘I learned to see myself and my role as a capitalist… as somebody who’s trying to harness, for myself and for society, the power of greed and the power of the will to acquire into something that makes the world a better place. That’s the version of capitalism that we want.’ – Guy Spier
‘People seem to take as much offence as they possibly can these days – it’s almost a new type of greed, a new kind of road rage.’ – Michael Leunig
‘We can’t allow any war for imperialism or greed to be fought in our names. This is what we need to keep fighting for.’ – Cindy Sheehan
‘Christopher Finazzo had a great job that paid him millions of dollars, but this honest living was apparently not enough to satisfy his greed.’ – Loretta Lynch
‘The American way of life, as I see it, is really the American way of death. Everything is determined by greed and the insatiable desire to be the richest and most powerful. And that desire is limitless.’ – Lydia Lunch
‘The actions of my government are not bearable. They devastate our natural resources and deprive our people. The politicians speak piously while practicing greed and divisiveness. They care nothing for the nation. I want to do more than withdraw my support. I want to tar and feather them.’ – Donella Meadows
‘People always ask me for my secret. There isn’t one. You’ve just got to keep a level head and stay away from greed, which is the worst thing that can happen to a successful person.’ – Dennis Washington
‘Logging is an industry driven solely by greed. It prospers with government support and subsidies, and it is accelerating its rate of destruction, so that Tasmania is now the largest hardwood chip exporter in the world.’ – Richard Flanagan
‘If you don’t work yourself up into a fever of greed and covetousness in an art museum, you’re just not doing the job.’ – Thomas Hoving
‘I learned how to comport myself among trolls, elves, hobbits or goblins. I learned that a friend can be lost to greed and avarice. I learned that solving riddles may be as important a survival skill as bowmanship. I know how to talk to a dragon, and that it’s best not to.’ – Karen Joy Fowler
‘I took charge of the government as per my commitment to serving the country and the people, and not out of any greed for yet another post.’ – Khil Raj Regmi
‘If we destroy the biosphere, then mankind will die. We all waste our time worrying about stupid wars and petty jealousy and greed, and all the time, we’re sitting on a time bomb.’ – Ron Moody
‘I wound up becoming an A&R man at London Records in the 1990s, during the boom of Britpop, the last great gold rush of the music industry. I saw incredible greed and terrible behaviour. I was greedy and terribly behaved.’ – John Niven
‘In any restaurant, my eyes alight first, as if by an atavistic pull, on the meat dishes on the menu. In any dinner party I throw, I think of the non-vegetarian dish as central. I view this as a combination of weakness, greed and moral failure. Someone please help.’ – Neel Mukherjee
‘The major international appeal for ‘House of Cards’ was kind of a surprise because it’s a very American show. What we learned is that American politics is very American, but greed and corruption and all of that is very global.’ – Ted Sarandos
‘We lost our way and allowed greed and excess to become the twin pillars of too much of the financial culture. We became a society utterly absorbed in consumption and dismissive of moderation.’ – Tom Brokaw
‘Greed is a sin because humans are social creatures. And they simply cannot survive without the opposite of greed, which is cooperation.’ – Nick Hanauer
‘One of the most painful things in the Western States and Territories is the extinction of childhood. I have never seen any children – only debased imitations of men and women, cankered by greed and selfishness, and asserting and gaining complete independence of their parents at ten years old.’ – Isabella Bird
‘Coal mining is an industry rife with mismanagement, corruption, greed and an almost blatant disregard for the safety, health and quality of life of its work force. Everyone knows this. Everyone has always known it.’ – Tawni O’Dell
‘We have to knock down the barriers erected by greed, special interests, powerful forces.’ – Hillary Clinton
‘At tea time, all the noise, greed and aggressiveness of the ’80s can be drowned out. For 45 minutes, anyway.’ – Letitia Baldrige
‘What I’m trying to argue, as passionately as I can, is that the Jesus story isn’t worth dying for, it’s worth living for. Jesus presents a third way, a way of being in the worth that embraces the Sermon on the Mount, with its challenge to violence and greed.’ – Jay Parini
‘Liability limit has become a symbol of corporate greed in passing the risk of disaster to the U.S. government and U.S. citizens.’ – Marvin Ammori
‘Governments are composed of human beings, and all of the frailties that humans possess are absorbed into these governments and become active within these governments. Hatred, anger, jealousy, fear, greed, distrust and the whole host of afflictions that humans must bear, lurk just beneath the surface of civility displayed by ‘government.” – John McAfee
‘The quality of one’s emotional life changes over the years, doesn’t it? But the basic instincts and desires, greed and hope, seem to remain constant. In the larger scope of things, there’s a sense of fulfillment to living a creative life. So I guess that’s what keeps me going.’ – Tommy Lee Jones
‘I have nothing against rich brothers and sisters. Pray for ’em every day. But callousness and indifference, greed and avarice is something that’s shot through all of us.’ – Cornel West
‘Overwhelmed by the miraculous potentialities of the machine, our human greed has interfered with the biological cycle of human companionship which keeps the life of a community healthy.’ – Walter Gropius
‘Noir has always shown that greed and chaos are as close as the company we work for or the politicians we vote for.’ – Margo Jefferson
‘I’m a strong believer that you can build great companies in time of both greed and fear. But you have to be paying attention and operating under the right assumptions. You don’t have to believe history repeats itself, but you should accept that history rhymes.’ – Brad Feld
‘We shall have to practise to lead our life on the basis of our needs, not under the influence of our greed.’ – Lobsang Tenzin
‘For the exploitation of human greed, they have devised comparison and competition. Right from childhood on, we are indoctrinated to compare and compete, and there is a word, a phrase: ‘free and fair competition.” – Lobsang Tenzin
‘We find personal success and great, if not enduring, influence on the outer fashioning of the world allotted to the violent, the passionate individual who, unchaining the elemental principles of human impulse under favoring circumstances, points out to greed and self-indulgence the speedy pathways to their satisfaction.’ – Richard Wagner
‘The financial catastrophe of 2008 nearly precipitated a calamitous economic depression, jolting America and much of the West into a sudden recognition of their systemic vulnerability to unregulated greed.’ – Zbigniew Brzezinski
‘Progressives regard government as the white knight that protects the public from the greed of capitalists. If only.’ – Paul Craig Roberts
‘Vice is Washington’s signature. A fish rots from the head, and Washington has led our country into vice, greed, selfishness, and the mockery and destruction of human life.’ – Paul Craig Roberts
‘There is a greed case for diversity. Diverse perspectives bring us into markets we didn’t know existed.’ – Chris Sacca
‘Wall Street has been beset with problems. The cycle of greed and personal aggrandizement and lifestyle grandstanding is an affront to any American.’ – Anthony Scaramucci
‘What I think was a really lucky coincidence was that a lot of the themes of ‘Okja’ are things I write about a lot: cognitive dissonance and corporate greed and also the internal politics of fringe groups.’ – Jon Ronson
‘Moliere exaggerates common vices of mankind: lust, greed, misanthropy, hypocrisy. We all have a touch of these.’ – Dakin Matthews
‘Ted Geisel was trying to make a statement about awareness and personal responsibility. He was very clear about that. But the ideas and themes in ‘The Lorax’ go beyond a love of trees. It’s also a story about the dangers of greed and the power of redemption. That’s what makes it a timeless tale.’ – Chris Meledandri
‘By the 1980s, businesses had realized that environmental issues had a price tag. Increasingly, they balked. Reflexively, the anticorporate Left pivoted; Earth Day, erstwhile snow job, became an opportunity to denounce capitalist greed.’ – Charles C. Mann
‘In my shows, I always try to incorporate music because it’s the most natural way to set a tone. So if I want to do a show about depression, I use the opera. If I want to do a show about greed, I use spoken word. If I want to do a show about the injustice that’s taking place in the world, I might play Sam Cooke.’ – Kerby Jean-Raymond
‘It’s not in my mission to work against Euroskepticism; it’s my mission to work for fair markets. In antitrust, what is at stake is, in some ways, as old as Adam and Eve because it is about greed, to get more.’ – Margrethe Vestager
‘Big religion was started with one goal in mind: to make money. And I’m not knocking anyone’s faith, because I think there are a lot of good values to be found in any faith. But when any faith starts to get in the way of love, that’s where you can tell that greed and fear have stepped in and that those things come from man.’ – Jim James
‘Many would say the reason why they steal is because they want to have an arsenal for future political exploits. It is a lie. It is greed. In any case, even if you want to do that, you have no right to do it.’ – Yemi Osinbajo
‘When governments are cowed or simply don’t care to enforce fundamental human and labour rights or to ensure corporate tax is paid so that they can invest in social protection and in the health and education of their people, they cede control to corporate greed.’ – Sharan Burrow
‘With global rules for global supply chains, we can end corporate greed.’ – Sharan Burrow
‘Disproportionate corporate power over governments is giving license to the greed that denies workers even minimum living wages. It is also seemingly a license to allow the sheer brutality of treatment of working people at the base of the supply chains.’ – Sharan Burrow
‘Corporate greed, corporate bullying cannot be tolerated – it’s time for a global rule of law to guarantee fair trade, rights, minimum wages on which people can live with dignity, and safe and secure work.’ – Sharan Burrow
‘Many communities are already devastated by poverty. Increasingly, that poverty is born of the greed of a global trading system.’ – Sharan Burrow
‘Growing inequality is exacerbated by the companies who simply treat workers as commodities, and our governments are cowered by their demands to perpetuate this model of greed.’ – Sharan Burrow
‘We’ve all heard about Wall Street greed. I think people are now starting to be a little bit more sensitized to Washington greed – the greed for power and control over our lives and our economy.’ – Jeb Hensarling
‘There’s something on Wall Street called PIG – panic, ignorance, and greed. Those are the big sins. I’m not greedy, I knew I was ignorant, and I didn’t panic.’ – Melvin Van Peebles
‘I think the main focus in America is – is basically greed.’ – Adam Yauch
‘War and peace-making, human rights, humanitarian issues have become industries, but nobody looks closely at human greed, at the arms industry and the manufacture of landmines. Art has to take a wider view. The problems of Ireland are my problems, too.’ – Haris Pasovic
‘A healthy desire for wealth is not greed. It’s a desire for life.’ – Jen Sincero
‘Be it terrorists or ‘blinded by greed’ capitalists or ‘deaf and dumb and siloed’ officials, special interests will always tyrannize the common good.’ – Mark Goulston
‘People have become obsessed with the greed of celebrity and self-branding and wanting to be known and recognized and succeed in some way, and they’re not prepared to share and help each other.’ – Genesis P-Orridge
‘Corporate greed in New York won. It suffocated anything interesting out of the city.’ – James Ransone
‘What’s interesting to ‘Vikings’ the series is that Horik is so blind in his greed and his desire for revenge that he can’t hear reason, and he’s probably so insecure about Ragnar that he won’t take his advice. And straight up, honestly, if you ever have to say to someone, ‘Hey, remember, I’m the king?’ It’s too late, and you’ve lost your authority.’ – Donal Logue
‘There’s a significant difference between greed and hunger. When you’re greedy, you just want things. That’s your only need. But when you’re hungry for things, it’s a mixture of need and want, which is more logical to me.’ – Mohamed Bamba
‘The Democratic Party needs to take a stand against corporate greed.’ – Richard Ojeda
‘Harveys opened against the backdrop of Thatcher’s greed culture.’ – Marco Pierre White
”Wall Street’ was the big movie of 1987, the year in which Harveys opened. It was a film about greed and self-indulgence, about hunger for success, and Michael Douglas’s line, ‘breakfast is for wimps,’ became a mantra for anyone who wanted to get to the top.’ – Marco Pierre White
‘The modern Left is not driven by fairness. It is guided by an ideology of greed and envy. Those are vices, not virtues.’ – Stephen Moore
”Line Of Duty,’ for dramatic purposes, tends to create characters whose corruption is balanced on certain ethical conflicts, whereas the majority of corruption in the real world is simply based on greed.’ – Jed Mercurio
‘When I see people scratching and clawing towards ambition and greed, I wonder why they are doing it and for what.’ – Raveena Tandon
‘You can be hostile to greed. You can be hostile to income inequality. You can be for raising raises… but you can’t be hostile to businesses because 98 percent of businesses are small business people.’ – Tim Ryan
‘For decades, the GOP has faithfully served the rich, corporations, polluters and purveyors of pure, unadulterated greed, and brought blue-collar white voters along for the ride with promises of cultural revival.’ – Joy Reid
‘Brave doesn’t spread hate or bully the vulnerable. Brave doesn’t put greed and self-interest over millions of lives. Brave doesn’t cower behind lies and walls. Brave doesn’t pit people against one another. That’s what fear does.’ – Kirsten Gillibrand
‘I have a greed to work with good directors.’ – Neha Dhupia
‘In ‘Guru,’ the business aspect is more of a layer and sub-text… to me, Harshad Mehta’s story is a tragedy, a classic Greek tragedy, where the greed of a lot of people got attached to him.’ – Vijay Krishna Acharya
‘Conservatives claim they are ‘one nation’ Tories when they have actually been a government for the 1% who have undermined our economic interests through their greed.’ – John McDonnell
‘Foreign intelligence services rely on manipulating vulnerabilities over time – like greed, or fear of exposure of a secret – to puppeteer those under their influence into acting in their interests without saying a word.’ – Asha Rangappa
‘Throw out the fun-killers that you carry about with yourselves all the time. Three of them are lust, greed, and hatred.’ – Dada Vaswani
‘When Democrats aren’t being fiscally reckless, they are economically irresponsible. Democrats bemoan corporate greed and have not a positive word to say about the entrepreneurs that have made our economy the envy of the world.’ – Max Boot
‘There aren’t a lot of things that are extraordinary about Putin, but his greed is truly extraordinary.’ – Masha Gessen
‘Nelson Mandela, Dada Vaswani, Harsh Mander, Shabana Azmi – I admire their humanitarian work. But sadly even Nelson Mandela could not keep corruption out of his cabinet and within a year, I am told, the victims of apartheid turned into perpetrators of corruption on their own people. Greed has no boundaries of colour or country does it?’ – Amala Akkineni
‘Power, greed, and perhaps more than anything, ego, are powerful emotions and motivators.’ – Trish Regan
‘That’s the power of the good con artist: the ability to identify your deepest need and exploit it. It’s not about honesty or greed; we are all suckers for belief.’ – Maria Konnikova
‘We are not terrorists. We’re not criminals, we’re not motivated by money, we’re not motivated by greed. Nor are we simply nice kids gone wrong. We’re deeply committed to a different kind of society and a different world. I think that is something very hard to understand for a lot of people.’ – Susan Rosenberg
‘It is greed or financial difficulty that makes people fix matches, not gaining an edge over rivals, so it is different from say Lance Armstrong or Ben Johnson.’ – Neil Robertson
‘Greed is the worst thing.’ – Bruce Grobbelaar
‘I’m greedy for good films, and will test waters in new territories as long as I get to satiate that greed.’ – Padmapriya Janakiraman
‘Everybody I meet is a star. In Bombay it is crazy and even TV has become so big that there are just too many stars and there is too much greed for that little space on the newspaper.’ – Priyanshu Chatterjee
‘It is time that the female gaze made its presence felt both in cinema and in a world that’s been driven by intolerance, greed, hate and lust. We need to make gentler, more inclusive films where multiple voices may be heard.’ – Aparna Sen
‘In early 2008, before the criminal greed of America’s mortgage and investment bank industry nearly destroyed the world’s economy, the balance sheet of the U.S. Federal Reserve stood at about $870 billion.’ – Neil Macdonald
‘As we deal with a devastating climate crisis caused by decades of unchecked corporate greed, we need to center our children and their future.’ – Jamaal Bowman
‘I had heard a lot of key words about Harshad Mehta in books, documentaries, on the Internet, and in the script like his passion, greed, a bit of ego, and confidence.’ – Pratik Gandhi
‘Greed and ambition can be negative things.’ – Kunal Kapoor
‘That’s a dream for any actor where you get a chance to play a character that goes from being a very celebrated soldier to being somebody that is seduced by power and greed and to becoming somebody who’s a ruthless tyrant.’ – Kunal Kapoor
‘A hospital is like a war zone, and in ‘Sanjivani’ we show the innards of a hospital, including the commercial aspect – how the health care system is infected by greed. No service provider can run in the loss, but people in the medical profession have to draw a line and perform duties to the best of their abilities.’ – Mohnish Bahl
‘As the scale of football finances increases, we see and hear of the decadence, irresponsibility and greed of the modern player.’ – Simon Jordan
‘I always do things for the right reasons. If there’s a choice between greed – plastic surgeons are very greedy – and making the good decision that will involve making no money, I always automatically make that decision, even to my detriment.’ – Terry Dubrow
‘Football is not about greed, football is about the fans, and not only about individuals.’ – Victor Wanyama
‘Gambling is the very embodiment of greed. Greed is its raison d’etre.’ – Norah Vincent