Friedrich Engels Quotes

There is always greed. There is nothing wrong with greed.

Greed is good.

Avarice, the spur of industry.

Nobody seemed to be interested in anything except making money.

Those whose life is long still strive for gain, and for all mortals all things take second place to money.

Greed is all right ... Greed is healthy. You can be greedy and still feel good about yourself.

Greed, greed, greed. That’s the fundamental problem of mankind. If we can solve that problem, the rest of man’s problems would follow. The only thing that can undermine our free society is greed.

… a creed of greed

There is something about prosperity that brings out the worst in some people.

Today is much more an age of greed

Men hate the individual whom they call avaricious only because nothing can be gained from him.

Man's greed to obtain something for nothing has never yet been able to content itself with a moderate profit.

Most men have always wanted as much as they could get; and possession has always blunted the fine edge of their altruism.

But men are so full of greed today, they'll sell anything for a little piece of money.

The corruption of the American soul is consumerism.

We've been raised to compete, to want more! More! More! It's a way of life. It's about greed.

Go miser go, for money sell your soul. Trade wares for wares and trudge from pole to pole, So others may say when you are dead and gone. See what a vast estate he left his son.

For greed, all nature is too little.

The desire for money may be an indication of greed, but I want to argue that greed is a much more subtle vice than simply the desire to be rich.

The moral problem of our day is concerned with the love of money, with the habitual appeal to the money motive in nine-tenths of the activities of life…

The instinct of ownership is fundamental in man’s nature.

The selfish spirit of commerce which knows no country, and feels no passion or principle but that of gain.

… an avalanche of avarice

.... the forces of greed

I think the main focus in America is - is basically greed.