Greed · Skopia

Quotes

15

Scripture · Religious literature

The love of money is the root of all evil.

1st Timothy 6:10

64

★ 7.0

Film · Drama (film) · Drama

Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works. Greed clarifies, cuts through, and captures the essence of the evolutionary spirit. Greed, in all of its forms, greed for life, for money, for love, knowledge, has marked the upward surge of mankind.

Wall Street · 1987

★ 6.9

Avarice and happiness never saw each other, how then should they become acquainted.

Benjamin Franklin

1734

★ 5.2

Political literature

I know of no country, indeed, where the love of money has taken a stronger hold on the affections of men, and where a profounder contempt is expressed for the theory of the permanent equality of property.

Alexis de Tocqueville

Democracy in America · 1835

★ 3.8

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Songs

7

Stairway to HeavenLed Zeppelin

Stairway to Heaven

1971★ 9.3

Money

1973★ 7.7

Gold Digger

2005★ 7.7

Money (That's What I Want)

1960★ 6.7

Maneater

1982★ 5.9

Santa BabyEartha Kitt

Santa Baby

1953★ 5.4

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Movies

6

Goodfellas

Martin Scorsese

1990★ 9.6

There Will Be Blood

Paul Thomas Anderson

2007★ 9.4

Once Upon a Time in the West

1968★ 9.0

Double Indemnity

1944★ 9.0

No Country for Old Men

2007★ 8.9

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

1966★ 8.9

Books

4

The Alchemist

1610★ 6.1

The Miser and Other Plays

1668★ 6.0

The Bonfire of the Vanities

1987★ 5.3

Devil Take the Hindmost

Edward Chancellor

1999★ 4.6

Art

2

The Moneylender and His Wife

1514★ 6.7

Eclipse of the Sun

1926★ 6.3