Quotes on Greed
- The page contains money quotes about greed from various famous figures such as Mother Theresa, Bernie Sanders, and Albert Einstein
- Many of the quotes criticize greed and the pursuit of wealth and money for its own sake
- Some quotes note how greed can corrupt societies and governments and damage human relationships
- A few quotes acknowledge that some level of greed may be necessary to drive economies and innovation
- Donald Trump is quoted twice expressing his strong desire for wealth and money
- The page allows users to share individual quotes on social media
“The greed of gain has no time or limit to its capaciousness. Its one object is to produce and consume. It has pity neither for beautiful nature nor for living human beings. It is ruthlessly ready without a moment’s hesitation to crush beauty and life” — Rabindranath Tagore
“I fear just one thing : Money! Greed was what motivated Judas to sell Jesus” — Mother Theresa
“But men are so full of greed today, they’ll sell anything for a little piece of money” — Little Richard
“I think one of the most pervasive evils in this world is greed and acquiring money for money’s sake” — Kevin Bacon
“We have a corporate establishment whose greed is destroying our economy, a political establishment which is beholden to billionaires and a media establishment which largely ignores the major issues facing working families. We need a political revolution” — Bernie Sanders
“The poor lack much, the greedy everything. The greedy man benefits none, is his own worst enemy. Greed denies to itself what it has taken from everyone else” — Seneca
“I have never understood why it is ‘greed’ to want to keep the money you have earned but not greed to want to take somebody else’s money” — Thomas Sowell
“Be glad that you’re greedy; the national economy would collapse if you weren’t” — Mignon McLaughlin
“Once capital becomes an idol and guides people’s decisions, once greed for money presides over the entire socioeconomic system, it ruins society, it condemns and enslaves men and women, it destroys human fraternity, it sets people against one another” — Pope Francis
“I think I’m greedy, but I’m not greedy for money – I think that can be a burden – I’m greedy for an exciting life” — David Hockney
“My whole life has been money. I want money. I want money. Greedy, I was greedy, greedy. I want more money, more money” — Donald Trump
“You can’t be too greedy” — Donald Trump
“Watch out! Be on your guard against all kinds of greed; life does not consist in an abundance of possessions” — Luke 12:15
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“So as long as money continues to seduce the hungry, the hopeless, the broken, the greedy, and the needy, there will always be war between brothers” — Suzy Kassem
“The billionaire class is very religious. Their religion is greed. It's not enough to own the economy, they want to own the government too” — Bernie Sanders
“Wells Fargo’s fleecing of its customers by opening fraudulent accounts for the purpose of extracting millions in illegal fees demonstrates, at best, a reckless lack of institutional control and, at worst, a culture which actively promotes wanton greed” — John Chiang
“There is no such thing as a fiduciary duty as a businessman to oneself. That’s called greed. And greed is not a component of the law of fiduciary duty anywhere” — Richard W. Painter
“Money doesn’t change men, it merely unmasks them. If a man is naturally selfish or arrogant or greedy, the money brings that out, that’s all” — Henry Ford
“[Fascists] in their insatiable greed for money and the power which money gives, do not hesitate surreptitiously to evade the laws designed to safeguard the public from monopolistic extortion” — Henry A. Wallace
“From our immersion in scarcity arise the habits of scarcity. From the scarcity of time arises the habit of hurrying. From the scarcity of money comes the habit of greed” — Charles Eisenstein
“Money is neither my god nor my devil. It is a form of energy that tends to make us more of who we already are, whether it’s greedy or loving” — Dan Millman
“In order to make them overlook our greed, or to make us seem less greedy than we are, we sometimes remind some people that, if and when we catch it, the wealth that we are relentlessly chasing would enable us to help a lot of poor people” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana
“Greed is a contagious mental illness without which civilization as we know it would not have been possible” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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“[Prison] is a cruel and useless substitute for the elimination of those conditions — poverty, unemployment, homelessness, desperation, racism, greed — which are at the root of most punished crime. The crimes of the rich and powerful go mostly unpunished” — Howard Zinn
“Boy, you get greedy in Vegas, you know. That’s the only place that you can bet $25, get it up to $500 and refuse to quit” — Louie Anderson
“Greed is not good: Being rapacious doesn’t make you a capitalist — It makes you a sociopath” — Nick Hanauer
“Apparently, a concern for others is self-love at its least attractive, while greed is now a sign of the highest altruism. But then to reverse, periodically, the meanings of words is a very small price to pay for our vast freedom not only to conform but to consume” — Gore Vidal
“Greed, for lack of a better word, is good” — Gordon Gekko
“New York City is a great monument to the power of money and greed… a race for rent” — Frank Lloyd Wright
“There is enough for everyone’s need, there is not enough for everyone’s greed” — Frank Buchman
“My definition of a decent society is one that first of all takes care of its losers, and protects its weak. What I see in my country, progressively over these years, is that the rich have got richer, the poor have got poorer. The rich have become indifferent through a philosophy of greed, and the poorer have become hopeless because they’re not properly cared for” — John le Carre
“Wall Street and stock market are metaphors for a society rotting from self-indulgence, greed, widening inequality, and financial entrepreneurship that builds nothing, improves nothing, creates nothing, and solves nothing, but merely moves money from one set of pockets to another” — Robert Reich
“If you took the greed out of Wall Street, all you’d have left is pavement” — Robert Reich
“Three great forces rule the world: stupidity, fear and greed” — Albert Einstein
“The world’s biggest religion is capitalism: money is our god, greed is our priest, banks are our temples, and shopping is how we express our worship” — Matshona Dhliwayo