Quotes about Greed

I don't understand why everyone fights for power, money, fame.

The goose that lays the golden eggs likes to lay where there are eggs already.

Things, things, things. Always more things, and success is seen as the abundance of things.

There was a spark inside that holiest of holy places that made people want to possess it, and what men yearn for they often destroy.

Whose end is destruction, whose God is their belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things.

He that trusteth in his riches shall fall.

Thy money perish with thee.

Wealth isn't evil, Kate. It's the love of money that is. When no matter how much you have is never enough.

15And he said to them, Take heed, and beware of all covetousness; for a man's life does not consist in the abundance of his possessions.

Neither will it out of my mind but that that man that takes up religion for the world will throw away religion for the world; for so surely as Judas designed the world in becoming religious, so surely did he also sell religion and his Master for the same.

We see how many tricks they try, how many pursuits they exhaust themselves with in order to secure the objects of their ambition or greed, while trying to avoid, on the other hand, poverty and humility.

That the covetous wants that which he has, as   well as that which he has not; because he is master of nothing, and is   the slave of his own wealth.