When a doctor refuses money, even the most ethical ones, you usually start driving a good bargain with the undertaker.
I just want people to see what I deem as a war for no reason, but only for greed.
Greed is the assumption that it is all for my consumption.
If as an environmentalist we are against anything. . . it is against the arrogance of power and the most obcene ways it shows up, which is in greed.
Cardinal Mazarin was a great knave, but no great man; much more cunning than able; scandalously false and dirtily greedy.
When it comes to climate change it's all the usual barriers: greed, mendacity, ignorance, short-sightedness and so on, manifest in the extreme power of corporations, the weakness of government, and the indifference of citizens.
If I give $1,000 dollars I deserve to get back $100,000 because I am just, that's not greed!
It is greed to do all the talking but not to want to listen at all.
When there is firm conquest over covetousness, they who have conquered it wake up to the how and why of life.
I saw the horrible way that people could treat each other. That may be the saddest thing of all. I saw greed and anger and murder and a total lack of concern for human life. It was a wicked side of the human soul that I saw. . . and it saddened me to know that such a dark place existed.
Let us treasure up in our soul some of those things which are permanent. . . , not of those which will forsake us and be destroyed, and which only tickle our senses for a little while.
Nothing makes us more vulnerable than loneliness except greed.
The avarice person is ever in want; let your desired aim have a fixed limit.
People's lives are filled with vice and the trappings of it. Ambition, greed and selfishness all have to do with vice. Sooner or later, you have to see through it or you don't survive.
Three great forces rule the world: stupidity, fear and greed.
So for a good old-gentlemanly vice, I think I must take up with avarice.
We are rich only through what we give.
Stand in despair anywhere old-growth forest has been clear-felled. All life has been replaced by blackened, poisoned desolation. Animals and birds have either fled or been killed, and baits are laid waiting for those that should return. And in these tortured places, the devastation is brutal and total. And this is what greed looks like.
Chicago's downtown seems to me to constitute, all in all, the best-looking twentieth-century city, the city where contemporary technique has best been matched by artistry, intelligence, and comparatively moderated greed. No doubt about it, if style were the one gauge, Chicago would be among the greatest of all the cities of the world.
In the 1980s and 1990s, Jack Welch, the CEO of General Electric, laid off over 100,000 employees. His reward? When he retired from GE, he received a golden parachute of over $400 million dollars. This is the kind of corporate greed and irresponsibility that is destroying the middle class and must be ended.