From the least to the greatest right up to the King himself everyone is infected with insatiable greed.

The need for instant gratification is a component of greed.

It should be kept in mind that their insatiable greed and ambition, the greatest ever seen in the world, is the cause of their villainies.

At all times people had known greed: but at no time before this had greed outgrown a mere eagerness to acquire things and become an obsession that blurred the sight of everything else: an irresistible craving to get, to do, to contrive more and more - more today than yesterday, and more tomorrow than today: a demon riding on the necks of men and whipping their hearts forward toward goals that tauntingly glitter in the distance but dissolve into contemptible nothingness as soon as they are reached, always holding out the promise of new goals ahead - goals still more brilliant, more tempting as long as they lie on the horizon, and bound to wither into further nothingness as soon as they come within grasp: and that hunger, that insatiable hunger for ever new goals gnawing at man's soul: Nay, if you but knew it you would see the hell you are in.

Sometimes wealth and power merely created the desire for more of the same.

The combination of economic and political power in the same hands is a sure recipe for tyranny.

There was one temporal power greater than the greatest sorcery. Greed.

This avidity alone, of acquiring goods and possessions for ourselves and our nearest friends, is insatiable, perpetual, universal, and directly destructive of society.

The deeds of conquest and omnipotence have a sameness, as does the exposition of most evil.

The desire for power feeds off itself, growing as it devours.

Your envy and arrogance were aroused, so you rushed in headlong, as always, like a madman"

He had intended to say that such was the nature of power. Seizing it and holding it were alike filthy.

Greed advise with hate; greed wins; greed always wins.

Depravity always incorporates obsession.