Quotes about Greed

government; instead, they would draw their salaries from the private sector. As a result, their dirty work, if exposed, would be chalked up to corporate greed rather than to government policy.

That's the genius of the capitalist system: Either you're rich, or you want to be, or you think you ought to be.

Earthly possessions dazzle our eyes and delude us into thinking that they can provide security and freedom from anxiety. Yet all the time they are the very source of anxiety.

I cling like a miser to the freedom that disappears as soon as there is an excess of things.

He is much to be dreaded who stands in dread of poverty.

The God of this world is riches, pleasure and pride.

The vanity and insatiability of the human heart are unspeakable. What a man has does not please him; what he does not have, that he yearns for.

For although greed of itself is idolatry, there was still the additional worship of the idols, or . Rachel

Those precious words, Holy and Spiritual, have been perverted for us through the greed of the preachers, in that they have denominated the state of priests and monks holy and spiritual, and have thus scandalously robbed us of these noble, precious words, as also of the word Church, since with them the Pope and Bishops are the Church, while they do according to their own pleasure whatever they choose, in virtue of the declaration

Through envy, greed, and councilors young, Jerusalem, Troy, and Rome were hung.

The greedy misuse the world by striving to acquire it.

one cannot forever whistle "There's a wideness in God's mercy" in the darkness of Hiroshima, of Auschwitz, of the murder of children and the careless greed that enslaves millions with debts not their own. Humankind cannot, alas, bear very much reality, and the massive denial of reality by the cheap and cheerful universalism of Western liberalism has a lot to answer for. But