"The earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed"
— Mahatma Gandhi

"'I want an Oompa-Loompa!' screamed Veruca."
— Roald Dahl (Charlie and the Chocolate Factory)

"No More Games. No More Bombs. No More Walking. No More Fun. No More Swimming. 67. That is 17 years past 50. 17 more than I needed or wanted. Boring. I am always bitchy. No Fun — for anybody. 67. You are getting Greedy. Act your old age. Relax — This won't hurt"
— Hunter S. Thompson

"If it weren't for greed, intolerance, hate, passion and murder, you would have no works of art, no great buildings, no medical science, no Mozart, no Van Gough, no Muppets and no Louis Armstrong."
— Jasper Fforde (The Big Over Easy)

"We have always known that heedless self interest was bad morals, we now know that it is bad economics."
— Franklin D. Roosevelt

"Be Fearful When Others Are Greedy and Greedy When Others Are Fearful"
— Warren Buffett

"Manifest plainness,
Embrace simplicity,
Reduce selfishness,
Have few desires."
— Laozi

"Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery."
— Winston S. Churchill

"These are the four that are never content: that have never been filled since the dew began-
Jacala's mouth, and the glut of the kite, and the hands of the ape, and the eyes of Man."
— Rudyard Kipling (The Jungle Books)

"The most pitiful among men is he who turns his dreams into silver and gold. "
— Kahlil Gibrán

"You have succeeded in life when all you really WANT is only what you really NEED."
— Vernon Howard

"Still another danger is represented by those who, paying lip service to democracy and the common welfare, 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.

Their final objective toward which all their deceit is directed is to capture political power so that, using the power of the state and the power of the market simultaneously, they may keep the common man in eternal subjection.

They claim to be super-patriots, but they would destroy every liberty guaranteed by the Constitution.

They are patriotic in time of war because it is to their interest to be so, but in time of peace they follow power and the dollar wherever they may lead."
— Henry A. Wallace

"Greed is a fat demon with a small mouth and whatever you feed it is never enough."
— Janwillem van de Wetering

"Greed is an imperfection that defiles the mind; hate is an imperfection that defiles the mind; delusion is an imperfection that defiles the mind."
— Siddhārtha Gautama

"The Duke of Dunstable had one-way pockets.
He would walk ten miles in the snow to chisel an orphan out of tuppence."
— P.G. Wodehouse

"Thus did a handful of rapacious citizens come to control all that was worth controlling in America. Thus was the savage and stupid and entirely inappropriate and unnecessary and humorless American class system created. Honest, industrious, peaceful citizens were classed as bloodsuckers, if they asked to be paid a living wage. And they saw that praise was reserved henceforth for those who devised means of getting paid enormously for committing crimes against which no laws had been passed. Thus the American dream turned belly up, turned green, bobbed to the scummy surface of cupidity unlimited, filled with gas, went bang in the noonday sun."
— Kurt Vonnegut (God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater)

"My whole life I dreamed of having everything,
I dreamed of riches, I dreamed gold,
And when I woke to it all, I only, dreamed of simplicity."
— Sabrina Saunders

"When morality comes up against profit, it is seldom that profit loses."
— Shirley Chisholm

"Our economy is based on spending billions to persuade people that happiness is buying things, and then insisting that the only way to have a viable economy is to make things for people to buy so they’ll have jobs and get enough money to buy things."
— Philip Slater

"You say, 'If I had a little more, I should be very satisfied.' You make a mistake. If you are not content with what you have, you would not be satisfied if it were doubled."
— Charles Haddon Spurgeon

""It has always seemed strange to me," said Doc. "The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second.""
— John Steinbeck (Cannery Row)

"...both wealth and concord decline as possessions become pursued and honored. And virtue perishes with them as well."
— Plato (Timaeus & Critias)

"Immense wealth, and its lavish expenditure, fill the great house with all that can please the eye, or tempt the taste. Here, appetite, not food, is the great desideratum."
— Frederick Douglass

"The history of the twentieth century was dominated by the struggle against totalitarian systems of state power. The twenty-first will no doubt be marked by a struggle to curtail excessive corporate power."
— Eric Schlosser (Fast Food Nation)

"If we define an American fascist as one who in case of conflict puts money and power ahead of human beings, then there are undoubtedly several million fascists in the United States."
— Henry A. Wallace

"In an effort to eliminate the possibility of any rival growing up, some monopolists would sacrifice democracy itself."
— Henry A. Wallace

"There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it.


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— Maya Angelou

"Of all the icy blasts that blow on love, a request for money is the most chilling."
— Gustave Flaubert (Madame Bovary)