Greed Quotes
Greed has poisoned men's souls, has barricaded the world with hate, has goose-stepped us into misery and bloodshed.
If you want money more than anything, you'll be bought and sold. If you have a greed for food, you'll be a loaf of bread. This is a subtle truth: Whatever you love, you are.
Fear and greed are probably the worst emotions to have in connection with the purchase and sale of stocks.
To those supporters who were told that I abandoned them, that is untrue. I abandoned greed, corruption, and compromise, never you, and never the artistic gifts and abilities that sustained me.
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.
Instead of loving people and using money, people often love money and use people.
A house built on greed cannot long endure.
But men are so full of greed today, they'll sell anything for a little piece of money.
There is no greater fault than sensual indulgence. There is no greater misfortune than malcontent. There is no greater calamity than greed.
Peace is a fruit of the Spirit, not the byproduct of accumulated wealth.
We're all basically made of the same stuff: generosity and selfishness, goodness and greed.
Greed (as Ling): You humans always get all "holier-than-thou" when it comes to this stuff... I really don't get you. Edward: It's called having integrity. You should try it sometime
What can defeat greed, technological superiority, and legal lawlessness ... is discipline, consciousness, and unity.
I think so much of neoliberalism and capitalism has caused people to live in a state of greed, fear and consumption that is covering up so much of what we really want.
The life of sensation is the life of greed; it requires more and more. The life of the spirit requires less and less.
In an effort to eliminate the possibility of any rival growing up, some monopolists would sacrifice democracy itself.
From eating meat arrogance is born, from arrogance erroneous imaginations issue, and from imagination is born greed; and for this reason refrain from eating meat.
In the second and third exiles we have served as a living protest against greed and hate, against physical force, against "might makes right"!
There is no fire like passion, there is no shark like hatred, there is no snare like folly, there is no torrent like greed.
It is the privilege of the gods to want nothing, and of godlike men to want little.
Short-sighted men who in their greed and selfishness will, if permitted, rob our country of half its charm by their reckless extermination of all useful and beautiful wild things.
The reason why we have to acquire wealth is the body, because we are slaves in its service.
Responsible people work, earn, save, invest, make things better for self & family. Lefties call that "greed."
The problem of social organization is how to set up an arrangement under which greed will do the least harm, capitalism is that kind of a system.
Foolish people are never harmless. Stupidity accounts for as many crimes as anger and greed.
If workers struggle for higher wages, this is hailed as "social gains", if businessmen struggle for higher profits, this is damned as "selfish greed".
My teacher said once that every man faces seven enemies in his lifetime. Sickness, hunger, betrayal, envy, greed, old age, and then death.
We found out that you can't pass on acquired things like bigotry, prejudice, greed. That's all learned in your culture or your sub-culture
If we go on the way we have, the fault is our greed and if we are not willing to change, we will disappear from the face of the globe, to be replaced by the insect.
This isn't about fans, greed or money. It's about being morally right or wrong. Nobody is governing the way music gets from artists to fans. It's all running amok.
The beast for me is greed. Whether you read Dante, Swift, or any of these guys, it always boils down to the same thing: the corruption of the soul.
People sometimes ask me, because of the blacklisting, "Do you hate the government? Don't you hate white people?" No, it's greed that's the problem.
