Greed Quotes

Either the key to a man's wallet is in his heart, or the key to a man's heart is in his wallet. So, unless you express your charity, you are locked inside your greed.

Question: What do you get the man who has everything? Answer: a concious. That guy is so greedy.

What is is plenty, but more is never enough.

I constantly pack my pockets full of worthless trinkets, and in such misguided gorging I leave my heart empty and my soul emaciated because I have forgotten everything but trinkets.

Every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a business, and turns into a racket.

I was simultaneously elated and depressed, a common enough state of mind these days when people are offered a great deal of money to do something repugnant.

Greed is a little bit more than enough.

We are living the American Dream, which is, of course, to benefit from someone else’s misfortune.

The same wolfish greed beats in your heart: to have what you will, and kill for it.

Hoarding kings are to be pitied in their lifetimewhen they can't take their richesto the

A cause that only serves me is much like a door on the edge of a cliff, it doesn’t open to anywhere good.

Paltry supply with capable means is one face of iniquity.

The things we love the most are the most disfiguring. Such is our greed for them.

Blood diamonds, she thought. That’s exactly what these are. She felt almost as superstitious as the Africans now, as if the pink diamonds themselves had somehow caused all this hardship and death.

Greed makes one want to get blessings without qualifying for it

When you stopped to think about it, he reflected, there weren't many things in life one truly needed. To want too much was worse than greed: it was stupidity - a waste of precious time and effort.

But you can’t give them everything they want—they will always want more than they have.

Ah, Caderousse, ' said Andrea, 'how covetous you are! Two months ago you were dying with hunger.''The appetite grows by what it feeds on, ' said Caderousse.

… human needs are finite, but human greed is not …

There's more than enough for the many, but somehow never enough for the few

Greed is a suit that’s tailor made: it finds a way to fit every lifestyle, no matter how much or how little you earn.

Blessed are the mendacious, for they shall grow wealthy beyond their wildest dreams.

In choosing to exchange precious principles for worthless impulses, I have far too often bankrupted my soul in order to bankroll my ego.

Desire is insatiable as death, but He who fills all in all can fill it. The capacity of our wishes who can measure? But the immeasurable wealth of God can more than overflow it.

Hoarding is both unnecessary and an affront to God, who is perfectly capable of providing abundantly for those who trust in him.

Beware of those who are always hungry, for they will feed you to the wolves just to get paid.

...we steal with our eyes closed to the conditions in which the poor, who make our affluence possible, live. We covet what our neighbours have and want more of the same.

Here is a greedy man who keeps to himselfThe beautiful pears ripe in his garden.

History repeats.

Why can't we say 'When!' about money the way we say 'When!' about coffee?

Recently I keep thinking that this isn’t about the survival of a species. It’s about why we’re never satisfied with what we need, why we always take a bit more.

Superficial efficiency seems cheaper at first, but it costs more the long run, with the cost being pushed off onto someone other than the one who saves a few bucks.

This wasn't a person, Zuzana thought, this was greed wearing skin.

The easiest way to combat greed is by recognizing the value of contentment and simplicity.

Some people take what they need from the orchard, and other people pick the orchard clean."From - "The Mind Game Company - The Players

Your actions are catalysts to another’s actions. One could last a second, another could last to the end of mankind. Share kindness, plant the seed, help humanity overcome their greed.

I too often allow people to become a sterile commodity to be bartered in the service of my greed, and in doing something so absurdly reckless I foolishly barter away everything that meets my need.

When Greed makes to money number one priority, it trust nobody

Clearly prize money received more serious attention than scurvy or signals.

I don't know which I hate most my bills or the money I pay them with...

Maybe we need to reflect on the fact that the patience of God always outruns the impatience of our greed, and that His love always outweighs the greed that outweighs our love for Him.

Love that wants only to get, to possess, is a monstrous thing

War, money and greed that is the modern heinous Trinity, and they are inseparable these days.

Take taking from those that give & nobody anywhere will need any more such gifts.

Avarice is opposed to nobility.It believes that by robbing many of all they have, that it (greed) is cloaked in the nobility that is the birthmark of the people.

Human beings are obscured by their desire to have and their greed to own preventing their natural cause of "being

Some people want what they are not willing to give.

And greed will breed harshness and cruelty.And wealth is a maze to confuse.Once a person is warm and well-suppered, how much of such wealth can they use?

Now, he'd loved money for money's sake. He loved the feel of it, not only in his hands, but also in his heart.

Greed harms you: generosity helps you. This is why is has been said: 'Greed is the mother of incapacity'.