Greed Quotes

You need to be greedy or ignorant to truly want to live forever.

It is in the best interest of the rich to preserve poverty.

Political corruption, social greed, and Americanized quasi-socialism can ruin even the most wonderful places. California proved that.

And the so-called 'political process' is a fraud: Our elected officials, like our bureaucratic functionaries, like even our judges, are largely the indentured servants of the commercial interests.

Complacency delivered us into the hands of evil greedy men like Cheney.

Any man who neglects his conscience is a dangerous animal.

We have had enough of the old men and the money-counters!" And people further off took up the cry: "Up Bowman, and down with the moneybags,

All told, over the period 1932-1980, nearly half a century, the top federal income tax rate in the United States averaged 81 percent.

[Conventional wisdom] very heavily tends to reflect the preferences and the interests of the elite.

When people smile at a rich man, they are smiling at his wallet.

Charity is fortune, avarice is poverty, peace is treasure, and happiness is wealth.

The USA is a beautiful country...when you take the corrupt corporations and their government minions out of the equation.

Our prayers are something akin to delivering a list, verses surrendering a life. The former will always leave me creating the next list, while the latter will leave me creating a new life.

If I were to sit down and count them, how many of my prayers were tainted by the seduction of greed? None, simply because nothing of that sort is a prayer.

Greatness untethered from God results in calamity unrestrained by men.

Religion (dharma) is decrease in kashay (anger, pride, deceit and greed) and increase of kashay is irreligion (adharma). When Kashay goes away (completely) is the religion of the Self (Soul).

There is no samkit (vision with right belief that I am Pure Soul) where there are kashays [anger, pride, deceit and greed], and where there are no kashays, there is samkit (self realization).

Leaders will love to be poor and see their people rich, than to be rich and see their people poor. This is their mission.

Greed squeezes your dreams into a portable size, so that failure can easily carry them to dump somewhere.

Your anger, pride, deceit, and greed should be such that they hurt no one. If they are limited to where they only hurt only you and no one else, then the path of liberation is open.

Being a human is a great power. One can obtain everything. However, it is the greed that harasses him.

Where there is anger-pride-deceit-greed [kashay], there is fire, and as long as there is fire, there will be scorching pain of the furnace.

The kashays (inner anger, pride, deceit and greed) that keep one entrenched in the coolness of the worldly life are the very thing that makes one wander life after life.

As long as there is greed (desire) for even a single situation, one will have to come back into the world and wandering will continue until then.

Every human being is indeed unhappy as long as he is not free from kashays.

The one whose kashays, (inner anger, pride, deceit, greed) are gone is worthy of worship. The absence of inner intent of kashays is indeed Gnani!

Greed has two teachers

What does greed mean? Greed means taking away what belongs to others.

When does one become free from all tubers (of the mind)? When one becomes free of kashayas (anger-pride-deceit-greed). Kashays (anger-pride-deceit-greed) are tubers themselves.

Complete departure of kashay (anger-pride-deceit-greed) is Moksha (Liberation). At first, there is the departure of kashays and then there will be ‘that’ [Liberation].

I am selfish by habit, but sacrificial by nature. Therefore, I’d be wise to develop the habit of following my nature.

Who gives you pain? Your anger, pride, illusion and greed. Where is the fault of the nature in all this?

Colonialism is the mother of terrorism.

It is in the nature of man to want what he does not have. This modern concern for happiness seems a real testimony of its absence.

Neither turn to thy own way nor seek thy own gain. But inquire the good way's of God.

Of all the icy blasts that blow on love, a request for money is the most chilling.

The creed of greed:Great Revenue Every Everlasting Day.(IN BANKS WE TRUST)

Being a billionaire helps when you live in a slum and have to eat scraps of food and drink dirty water.

Mankind's obsession with money and greed has them going down a one way street to their demise.

Life without money seems to be incomplete, but money without life is absolutely useless

Income from labor [in the United States] is about as unequally distributed as has ever been observed anywhere.

When you have more than you need, make your table longer, not your fence higher.

A family man shouldn't trade his peace for profits, it is the job of a businessman.

-Money? in a voice that rustled.

Mind is greedy. When you sense the benefits with people who previously thought rubbish about you, the mind forgoes those thoughts and inclines toward those people only to gain optimal benefits.

Remember that greed includes greed for being not greedy.

It is axiomatic that the attempt to become a Sufi through a desire for personal power as normally understood will not succeed.

The main obstacle to further progress on the resource curse is China, and to a lesser extent India.

Lust for power, greed, false religions reign today because of lack of vision and passion to redeem nations

The greed of power drowns our ethics.