Greed Quotes

Avarice, with all its black attendants, is confessedly a crime of old age, and seldom arrives at maturity till accompanied with gray hairs.

Money is that dear thing which, if you're not careful, you can squander your whole life thinking of.

In the race for money some men may come first, but man comes last.

As we are set free by that love from our own pride and fear, our own greed and arrogance, so we are free in our turn to be agents of reconciliation and hope, or healing and love.

Clarity and perseverance are difficult in American society because the basis of capitalism is greed and dissatisfaction.

If you are extremely generous, greed will run away.

People who are greedy have extraordinary capacities for waste-they must, they take in too much.

With intelligence and humility and dedication as our ammunition, we can wage the peace throughout the world with a strength beyond armies, destroying nothing except hate and greed and distrust.

The price of peace is to abandon greed and replace it with giving, so that none will be spiritually injured by having more than they need while others in the world still have less than they need.

The top two ways to destroy success are greed and impatience

The silence of the world could not rein back it's greed. Not any longer. Not when it had virtually won.

These are roots of all evil, hatred and greed, for money, for the construction and for the sale of weapons. This should make us all think, who is behind it all?

I could not possibly count the gold-digging ruses of women, Not if I had ten mouths, not if I had ten tongues.

Become more watchful and anger will be less and greed will be less and jealousy will be less.

Greed and selfishness do seem to be central motivators of mankind.

Work should never make me weary If I'm really meant to do it, But it soon becomes exhausting If it's greed that drives me to it.

The ultimate goal of those who blame workers for Wall Street's economic crisis is to unravel the fabric of our common life in pursuit of greed and power.

Gambling operates under the premise that greed can be satisfied by luck.

The best way to hate is the worst. 'Tis to find what the hated need, Never mind of what actual worth, And wipe that out of the earth. Let them die of unsatisfied greed.

Kaisers and Czars will strut the stage Once more with pomp and greed and rage; Courtly ministers will stop At home and fight to the last drop; By the million men will die In some new horrible agony.

It's all about greed and money and it's the driving force in Hollywood.

Greed, the desire to incorporate, is magnified and fed back to produce the pretan realms, just as hate creates the hells.

Riots born out of political issues aren't the same as those born out of personal greed.

avarice is especially, I suppose, a disease of the imagination.

What in the rising man was industry and economy, becomes in the rich man parsimony and avarice.

That poverty is no disaster is understood by everyone who has not yet succumbed to the madness of greed and luxury that turns everything topsy-turvy.

The bounty of nature is too little for the greedy person.

Greed often finds more pleasure in taking from others than in giving to itself.

Very unfairly, there's a negative image of the kid, which really stems from the greed and selfishness of the NBA and NCAA. They're forcing these kids to go to school.

Avarice is rarely the vice of youth.

We are rich only through what we give.

What the eye delights in, no longer dictates My greed to enjoy: boys, grass, the fenced-off deer. It leaves those figures that distantly play On the horizon's rim: they sign their peace, in games.

I am guilty of stupidity, arrogance, and greed.

There's a big difference between the National Book Awards and the Academy Awards. At the Academy Awards you can feel the greed and envy and ego. Whereas the National Book Awards are in New York.

Our first computers were born not out of greed or ego, but in the revolutionary spirit of helping common people rise above the most powerful institutions.

When a doctor refuses money, even the most ethical ones, you usually start driving a good bargain with the undertaker.

Being rich has never stopped anyone from being greedy.

There are things about some professional athletes that I cannot stand-the pretense, the egos, the pomposity, the greed.

I believe capitalism will eventually be replaced by a communitarian ethic where the rights and care of all beings will be taken into consideration, not just the greed of a corporate few.

Abundance is rooted in community, not individualism. Abundance is what is before our eyes, but we cannot see when we are blinded by greed.

The only engine big enough to impact Mother Nature is Father Greed.

Oppression is often the consequence, but seldom or never the means of riches; and tho' avarice will preserve a man from being necessitously poor, it generally makes him too timorous to be wealthy.

We must learn to separate need from greed...We must not allow our yearnings to exceed our earnings.

Greed puts out the sun.

Corporately contrived art product replaces inspired intellectual property with ineffectual poperty.

Greed is the lack of confidence of one's own ability to create.

[Mid-list writers are now] less greed on the part of both publishers and chain booksellers. It is easier for them to publish and sell only blockbusters and leave the real work to small presses.

People always should know better. People don't get - they don't get smarter about things that get as basic as greed.

Long live gravity! Long live stupidity, error, and greed in the palaces of fantasy capitalism!

The world in many ways would be a much calmer and gentler place if women ruled. There would have been fewer children sacrificed to the gods of greed and power.