Greed, possessions

QUOTES

It is better to be rich than to pretend you are.
 Guy Strickland
 2001

We desire nothing so much as what we ought not to have.
 Publius
 -50

Greed - for lack of a better word - is good. Greed is right. Greed works.
 StanleyWeiser
 Wall Street (film), 1987

The car, the furniture, the wife, the children - everything has to be disposable. Because you see the main thing today is - shopping.
 Arthur Miller
 The Price, 1968

In a consumer society there are inevitably two kinds of slaves: the prisoners of addiction and the prisoners of envy.
 Ivan Illich
 Tools for Conviviality, 1973

Please, sir, I want some more.
 Charles Dickens
 Oliver Twist, 1838

Greed is all right... Greed is healthy.
 Ivan Boesky
 Berkeley commencement address, 1986

You shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold!
 Wm Jennings Bryan
 speech, 1896

There is no calamity greater than lavish desires. There is no greater guilt than discontentment. And there is no greater disaster than greed.
 Lao-Tzu
 -550

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