Quotes about Greed

We need to be on guard against greed... above all we need to make sure our lives are centered in Christ and not things.

The fellow that has no money is poor. The fellow that has nothing but money is poorer still.

But just a minute, Mr. Poor Man; consider whether you can, in fact, enter. What if you're poor, and also happen to be greedy? What if you're sunk in destitution, and at the same time on fire with avarice? So if that's what you're like, whoever you are that are poor, it's not because you haven't wanted to be rich, but because you haven't been able to. So God doesn't inspect your means, but he observes your will.

But unscrupulous ambition has nothing to work upon, save in a nation corrupted by avarice and luxury.

What is it we buy with this money we desire? Is it something valuable? Is it something lasting? Oh, why do we desire it? Miserable is the rest achieved that costs so dearly.

Money never sleeps, pal

Prosperity often leads to pride, which leads to sin.

As we are set free by that love from our own pride and fear, our own greed and arrogance, so we are free in our turn to be agents of reconciliation and hope, or healing and love.

There is my first insight, young woman. Always downplay the value of money; it will make it much easier for him to hand it over.

You give people a little money and they lose all their manners, even the ones who had manners to begin with.

New York City is a great monument to the power of money and greed... a race for rent.

I wonder if the greatest temptation is self-rejection. Could it be that beneath all the lures to greed, lust, and success rests a great fear of never being enough or not being lovable?