#greed

I want an Oompa-Loompa!' screamed Veruca. ↗

— Roald Dahl

#role-models #greed

Are you not ashamed of caring so much for the making of money and for fame and prestige, when you neither think nor care about wisdom and truth and the improvement of your soul? ↗

— Socrates

#philosophy #socrates #truth #wisdom #money

Wealth is neither an ends nor a means, it is a symptom. ↗

— Christopher Dutton

#money #wealth #money

Rulers do not reduce taxes to be kind. Expediency and greed create high taxation, and normally it takes an impending catastrophe to bring it down. ↗

— Charles Adams

#bring #catastrophe #create #down #expediency

It has happened to me to meet many of the men of my day whom the world agreed to call great. ↗

— Rebecca Harding Davis

#call #day #great #happened #many

It is greed to do all the talking but not to want to listen at all. ↗

— Democritus

#listen #talking #want

We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter. ↗

— Denis Diderot

#bitter #find #flatters #greedily #lie

While I have corrected agreed factual errors, I have not been inhibited from writing what I felt to be the truth about The Prince of Wales. ↗

— Jonathan Dimbleby

#agreed #been #corrected #errors #factual

Fifa cannot sit by and see greed rule the football world. Nor shall we. ↗

— Sepp Blatter

#fifa #football #greed #nor #rule

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

— Sandy Duncan

#been #compete #greed #life #more