Greed Quotes

I may say that I think greed about poetry is the only permissible greed - it is, indeed, unavoidable.

Let us not forget such words, and all they mean, as hatred, bitterness, and rancor greed, intolerance, bigotry; let us renew our faith and pledge to man, his right to be himself and free.

Original sin, the true original sin, is the blind destruction for the sake of greed of this natural paradise which lies all around us-if only we were worthy of it.

Capitalism: Nothing so mean could be right. Greed is the ugliest of the capital sins.

The speculators deadly enemies are: Ignorance, greed, fear and hope. All the statute books in the world and all the rules of all the Exchanges on earth cannot eliminate these from the human animal.

It is strange people should be so greedy, when they are alone in the world.

There will be people who will teach for the sake of greed or for the sake of ego. So watch their lives. Do they look and act like Jesus?

Avarice misapprehends itself almost always. There is no passion which more often will miss its aim, nor upon which the present has so much influence to the prejudice of the future.

As we grow up, we are exposed to hate and greed and anger and jealousy and peanut brittle and all kinds of things, our subtly body erodes.

The path of love has many opponents - fear, self-pity, anxiety, hate, lust, greed, avarice - all the usual freinds.

It is not greedy to enjoy a good dinner, any more than it is to enjoy a good concert. But I do think there is something greedy about trying to enjoy the dinner and the concert at the same time.

The miser is the man who starves himself and everybody else, in order to worship wealth in its dead form, as distinct from its living form.

What most people call "chaos" is actually incredibly predictable and maddeningly boring - greed, close-mindedness, warring over power.

Religion as a vital issue is dead except on paper, and whatever beauty-baiting the future may witness will be the work of greed and trade, and not of honest cosmos-facing.

Ignorance, poverty, and greed must disappear so that light can prevail in all places.

Altruism is a fine motive, but if you want results, greed works much better.

The poor man wants many things; the covetous man, all.

Nothing in the world is so incontinent as a man's accursed appetite.

Care clings to wealth: the thirst for more Grows as our fortunes grow.

The covetous man is ever in want.

If you ask for too much, you lose even that which you have.

Impatience is not the least of your faults, Malik, it is a kind of greed and someday it may see you undone.

Greed, accident, or malice may have harmful results, but, barring something truly apocalyptic, a resilient system can absorb such results without its overall health being threatened.

Up until the Depression, recession had a moral character: it was supposed to purge the body economic of the greed and excess that attends a business expansion.

Cash is always the deciding factor in such matters of moral politics; nothing ever gets done unless motivated by commerce or greed.

Such gluttony second to none Almost ended fatally When a bone choked a wolf as he gulped what he ate

Greed stains our culture, soaks our sensibilities and has replaced grace as a sign of our intimacy with the divine.

America needs young people to be inspired to choose sacrifice over greed.

If you eat junk, you look like junk. People say, 'It's not my fault, it's my glands.' It's not; it's greed!

There are so many ways a family can unravel. All it takes is a tiny slash of selfishness, a rip of greed, a puncture of bad luck. And yet, woven tightly, family can be the strongest bond imaginable.

The more our hearts and minds are turned to assisting others less fortunate than we, the more we will avoid the spiritually cankering effects that result from greed, selfishness and overindulgence.

Mr. Greed, why do you have to own everything that you see?

The privileged have regularly invited their own destruction with their greed.

As consumers we are incredibly discerning, we sense where has been great care in the design, and when there is cynicism and greed.

When we desire or solicit anything, our minds run wholly on the good side or circumstances of it; when it is obtained, our minds run wholly on the bad ones.

I love the competitive part of stocks. A lot of fear and greed, that's all it is. All I see is green and red.

I don't recognize hate, I don't recognize bitterness, I don't recognize jealousy, I don't recognize greed. I don't give them power. They don't exist to me.

If you do good because you expect to be rewarded, it is greed.

Greed is costly. Assembled fortunes are lost.

O painter, take care lest the greed for gain prove a stronger incentive than renown in art, for to gain this renown is a far greater thing than is the renown of riches.

In the race of men is much greed and envy; but of truth, little.

Cardinal Mazarin was a great knave, but no great man; much more cunning than able; scandalously false and dirtily greedy.

Avarice is a cursed vice: offer a man enough gold, and he will part with his own small hoard of food, however great his hunger.

Nature can provide for the needs of people; [she] can't provide for the greed of people.

Our non-co-operation is with the system the English have established in India, with the material civilization and its attendant greed and exploitation of the weak.

There are sufficient resources on this planet to answer the needs of all, but not enough to satisfy everyone's greed.

World has things which full fill man needs, but not greeds.

How shrunk, how dwindled, in our times Creation's mighty seed - For Man has broke the Fellowship With murder, lust, and greed.

Greed is too flimsy to flawed

I wish to become rich, so that I can instruct the people and glorify honest poverty a little, like those kind hearted, fat, benevolent people do.