Greed Quotes

Men should continue to fight, but they should fight for things worth while, not for imaginary geographical lines, racial prejudices and private greed draped in the color's of patriotism.

Poverty wants some things, Luxury many things, Avarice all things

Life is easy, life is delightful. It's only hard on your illusions, your ambitions, your greed, your cravings.

Desire is storm, greed is whirlpool, pride is precipice, attachment is avalanche, ego is volcano. Discard desire and you are liberated.

As time goes on we get closer to that American Dream of there being a pie cut up and shared. Usually greed and selfishness prevent that and there is always one bad apple in every barrel.

When you're glad to be alive, good ideas come. The reason good ideas don't come today is because we're all bottled up with greed and anger. We're mad.

Be fearful when there is greed and be greedy when there is fear.

The everyday kindness of the back roads more than makes up for the acts of greed in the headlines.

Lesson number one: Don't underestimate the other guy's greed.

Greed's worst point is its ingratitude.

There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it.

Greed has poisoned men's souls.

Greed may not be good, but it’s not so bad either. You humans think greed is just for money or power, but everyone wants something they can’t have.

Jesus reserved his hardest words for the hidden sins of hypocrisy, pride, greed and legalism.

There are a lot of people who are doing wonderful things, quietly, with no motive of greed, or hostility toward other people, or delusions of superiority.

White folks' greed runs a world in need.

The love for material things grows like a fungus in the soul and destroys the loveliness of the human heart utterly.

Most of the mess that is called history comes about because kings and presidents cannot be satisfied with a nice chicken and a good loaf of bread.

The real primary diseases of man are such defects as pride, cruelty, hate, self- love, ignorance, instability and greed; and each of these, if considered, will be found to be adverse to Unity.

Throw away profit and greed, and there won't be any thieves.

Imagine no possesions, I wonder if you can, No need for greed or hunger, A brotherhood of man. Imagine all the people Sharing all the world.

The practice of gratitude is incompatible with negative emotions and may actually diminish or deter such feelings as anger, bitterness, and greed.

I think we need to take on the greed of the billionaire class, a disastrous campaign finance system.

Ignorance, hatred and greed are killing nature.

There is no wealth but life.

There's enough on this planet for everyone's needs but not for everyone's greed.

Love of the simple is all that I need, I've no time for schism or lovers of greed.

The dull, purblind folly of the very rich men, their greed and arrogance, and the corruption in business and politics, have tended to produce a very unhealthy condition.

Greed, for lack of a better word, is good.

I can see the greed and envy in your eyes.

It is not necessity but abundance which produces greed.

Greed has driven the world crazy. And I think I'm lucky that I have a place over here that I can call home.

Let us work without desire for name or fame or rule over others. Let us be free from the triple bonds of lust, greed of gain, and anger. And this truth is with us!

He was seized and dragged off to King Philip, and being asked who he was, replied, "A spy upon your insatiable greed."

Ambition and thirst for power have a part but greed and greed alone is the reason for a man wanting to swell his ward.

Greed says there is never enough. Abundance says there is more than enough. Greed closes the door behind itself. Abundance opens the door for others.

We [Americans] have to get beyond the greed-run-amok. We have to get beyond indifference to the poor and working people. We have to get beyond polarized politics.

The evil in our desires typically does not lie in what we want, but that we want it too much.

As the nation at last confronts global warming, it is no time for denial, greed, cynicism or pessimism.

Getting money is not all a man's business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.

I think war is based in greed and there are huge karmic retributions that will follow. I think war is never the answer to solving any problems. The best way to solve problems is to not have enemies.

Greed is an imperfection that defiles the mind; hate is an imperfection that defiles the mind; delusion is an imperfection that defiles the mind.

The investor's chief problem - and even his worst enemy - is likely to be himself.

When you cast away all your greed and fixation in adversity, you can find unexpected strength.

Unrestrained greed means the ruin of the great woods and the drying up of the sources of the rivers.

To justify and extol human greed and egotism is to my mind not only immoral, but evil.

It is doubly chimerical to build peace on economic foundations which, in turn, rest on the systematic cultivation of greed and envy, the very forces which drive men into conflict.

In a society governed passively by free markets and free elections, organized greed always defeats disorganized democracy.

Laissez-faire, supply and demand-one begins to be weary of all that. Leave all to egotism, to ravenous greed of money, of pleasure, of applause-it is the gospel of despair.

Undoubtedly there are, in connection with each of these things, cases of fraud, swindling, and other financial crimes; that is to say, the greed and selfishness of men are perpetual.