#greed

There was no safety. There was no pride. All there was, was money. Everything became money, and money became everything. Money treated us as if we were things, and we died. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#going-postal #greed #life #money #philosophy-religion

И все по-ясно виждам, че нашият свят ще загине от алчността си. ↗

— Димитър Димов

#death #dimitar #dimov #doom #greed

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

#humor #money #humor

There was a time when our greed had not yet surpassed our imaginations as our greatest asset. ↗

— Thomas Warfield

#imagination #imagination

To make a deliberate falsification for personal gain is the last, worst depth to which either scholar or artist can descend in work or life. (Letter to Muriel St. Clare Byrne, 8 September 1935) ↗

— Dorothy L. Sayers

#artists #falsification #gain #greed #honesty

[I]t was with a good end in mind – that of acquiring the knowledge of good and evil – that Eve allowed herself to be carried away and eat the forbidden fruit. But Adam was not moved by this desire for knowledge, but simply by greed: he ate it because he heard Eve say it tasted good. ↗

— Moderata Fonte

#good-and-evil #greed #knowledge #motivation #original-sin

Money. The ultimate motivation. The ultimate way of keeping score. ↗

— Michael Connelly

#materialism #money #success #wealth #money

You can never have too much money. ↗

— Jess C. Scott

#lottery #lottery-tickets #materialism #materialism-versus-spiritualism #money

Need' now means wanting someone else's money. 'Greed' means wanting to keep your own. 'Compassion' is when a politician arranges the transfer. ↗

— Joseph Sobran

#greed #need #money

And shall we at last become the victims of our own abominable lust of gain? Forbid it, Heaven." Washington himself could be a hard driving businessman, yet he found the rapacity of many vendors unconscionable. As he told George Mason, he thought it the intent of the speculators, various tribes of money makers and stock jobbers of all denominations, to continue the war for their own private emolument, without considering that their avarice and thirst for gain must plunge everything in one common ruin. ↗

— Ron Chernow

#history #us #washington #money