Greed Quotes

If I give $1,000 dollars I deserve to get back $100,000 because I am just, that's not greed!

Take care to guard against all greed, for though one may be rich, one's life does not consist of possessions.

Love of power, operating through greed and through personal ambition, was the cause of all these evils.

Nothing, not love, not greed, not passion or hatred, is stronger than a writer's need to change another writer's copy.

IF YOU WOULD BE FREE OF GREED, FIRST YOU HAVE TO LEAVE EGOTISM BEHIND. THE BEST MENTAL EXERCISE FOR RELINQUISHING EGOTISM IS CONTEMPLATING IMPERMANENCE.

You can stand tall without standing on someone. You can be a victor without having victims.

Let us treasure up in our soul some of those things which are permanent..., not of those which will forsake us and be destroyed, and which only tickle our senses for a little while.

What I loathe is the multi-national conglomerates who must take responsibility for the degradation and pollution of so much of our landscape with their factory farming and greed.

In his love for the world, the greedy is like the silkworm: the more it wraps in its cocoon, the less it has of escaping from it, until it dies of grief.

The only effective answer to organized greed is organized labor.

Cast aside those who liken godliness to whimsy and who try to combine their greed for wealth with their desire for a happy afterlife.

The Gesundheit Institute is a pie in the face of greed - by taking the most expensive thing in America, health care, and giving it away for free.

An intriguing paradox of the 1990s is that it isn't called a decade of greed.

Meditation is like the moon: it transforms the energy of lust into love, anger into compassion, greed into sharing, aggressiveness into receptivity, ego into humbleness.

I think greed is healthy. You can be greedy and still feel good about yourself.

If as an environmentalist we are against anything... it is against the arrogance of power and the most obcene ways it shows up, which is in greed.

Greed is a fat demon with a small mouth and whatever you feed it is never enough.

The only two things you can truly depend upon are gravity and greed.

If we do not cling to riches, selfishness or greed - then I believe we are getting closer to God.

The twin killers of success are impatience and greed.

Reduce the complexity of life by eliminating the needless wants of life, and the labors of life reduce themselves.

Giving is a proof that you have conquered greed.

The way to healthy living is to shift from quantitative economic growth to quality of life, food, water and air - to shift from craving to contentment and from greed to gratitude

The world is fed by greed.

It's not competition and greed that makes the world go around, it's cooperating and caring

We've been raised to compete, to want more! More! More! It's a way of life. It's about greed.

Greed is the inventor of injustice as well as the current enforcer.

Wall Street never changes, the pockets change, the suckers change, the stocks change, but Wall Street never changes, because human nature never changes.

We are moving from a chain of command to a web of connection, from competition to collaboration, from markets to networks and stockholders to stakeholders, and greed to green.

Greed can be very dangerous because you sacrifice your soul for the sake of something material, and then you start sacrificing people in order to keep that which is material.

Need' now means wanting someone else's money. 'Greed' means wanting to keep your own. 'Compassion' is when a politician arranges the transfer.

The ignorant mind, with its infinite afflictions, passions, and evils, is rooted in the three poisons. Greed, anger, and delusion.

Greed has taken the whole universe, and nobody is worried about their soul.

I contemplated my greed for peace. And I did not seek tranquillity anymore.

Two evils, greed and faction are the destruction of all justice.

We are in danger of destroying ourselves by our greed and stupidity. We cannot remain looking inwards at ourselves on a small and increasingly polluted and overcrowded planet.

We have always known that heedless self interest was bad morals, we now know that it is bad economics.

Classism and greed are making insignificant all the other kinds of isms.

There are sufficient resources in the world for the needs of everybody, but not enough for the greed of even a significant minority.

Lust, Greed, Anger, Attachment - These are all paths to hell.

Patience leads to power; but eagerness in greed leads to loss.

Our expensive welfare state is fueled by the destructive notion that 'greed' is when you want to keep your own money but 'compassion' is when you want to take somebody else's.

Greed is permanent slavery

Unless the human race realizes with a passion and reverence beyond thought or words its inter-being with nature, it will destroy in its greed the very environment it is itself sustained by.

You had a lot of novice investors who got into the market looking for easy money, without any regard to the fundamentals. These stocks were running on fumes.

Politics - I don't know why, but they seem to have a tendency to separate us, to keep us from one another, while nature is always and ever making efforts to bring us together.

The greed and envy of the nonproducer is insatiable, so that eventually nothing short of 100% taxation will appease him.

I like to think that my arrogance, impetuosity, impatience, selfishness and greed are the qualities that make me the lovable chap I am.

Only those blinded by greed would refuse to let a friend make a copy.

If money be not thy servant, it will be thy master. The covetous man cannot so properly be said to possess wealth, as that may be said to possess him.