Greed Quotes

The fact that people will be full of greed, fear, or folly is predictable. The sequence is not predictable.

Avarice has ruined more souls than extravagance.

Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works. Greed clarifies and cuts through to the essence of the evolutionary spirit.

The man who pets a lion may tame it, but the man who coddles the body makes it ravenous.

Spinning yarns is a protection against the nuttiness... the greed, the hate all around us.

We all seem to be about aggression and greed. It's a massive pressure that affects us all.

The Master said, “If your conduct is determined solely by considerations of profit you will arouse great resentment.

It was not curiosity that killed the goose who laid the golden egg, but an insatiable greed that devoured common sense.

Better to be happy with the cod fish in your plate now, than to linger for the taste of a tuna that is still swimming in the sea.

The true antidote to greed is contentment. If you have a strong sense of contentment, it doesn't matter whether you obtain the object of your desire or not. Either way, you are still content.

The market is a very emotional place that appeals to fear and greed.

Callous greed grows pious very fast.

Fear and greed tend to affect one's judgement.

Greed has been severely underestimated and denigrated - unfairly so, in my opinion.

As humans try to evolve out of greed, let's put aside some wild places, protected lands, protected farms, things like that, since we may not evolve fast enough to protect nature.

It's no go the merry-go-round, it's no go the rickshaw All we want is a limousine and a ticket for the peepshow.

Baseball and cricket are beautiful and highly stylized medieval war substitutes, chess made flesh, a mixture of proud chivalry and base-in both senses-greed.

Kindness trumps greed: it asks for sharing. Kindness trumps fear: it calls forth gratefulness and love. Kindness trumps even stupidity, for with sharing and love, one learns.

The powerful have no monopoly on greed, hatred, fear, or ignorance.

Organized greed always defeats disorganized democracy.

The organization and constant onward sweep of this movement exemplifies the resentment of the many toward the selfishness, greed and the neglect of the few.

Is there some society you know of that doesn't run on greed? You think Russia doesn't run on greed? You think China doesn't run on greed? What is greed?

I fear just one thing : Money! Greed was what motivated Judas to sell Jesus

God promises to meet our needs, not our greeds.

When there is firm conquest over covetousness, they who have conquered it wake up to the how and why of life.

Avarice seems to have so pervaded our vital principles as to battle all hopes of a remedy but for peace and plenty.

Peace is a virtual, mute, sustained victory of potential powers against probable greeds

Ambition is at the very core of success and extraordinary achievement. Unlike greed, it's a powerful, creative and constructive force.

Now that I have written many words, and let out so many loves, for so many, and been altogether what I always was a woman of excess, of zeal and greed, I find the effort useless.

They who in folly or mere greed Enslaved religion, markets, laws, Borrow our language now and bid Us to speak up in freedom's cause.

Nothing makes us more vulnerable than loneliness except greed.

The lust of avarice as so totally seized upon mankind that their wealth seems rather to possess them than they possess their wealth.

There are men who gain from their wealth only the fear of losing it.

Well, once you get involved with bloodsport litigation, you can not only get drunk on your own greed but start to believe your own lies.

Purity means lack of hatred, jealousy, fear, greed and lust - the absence of anything that can stain consciousness.

Friendship, obligation and greed are not good enough reasons to write anything.

If we got one-tenth of what was promised to us in these acceptance speeches there wouldn't be any inducement to go to heaven.

Avarice is the vice of declining years.

There was no more good or evil in this world than we imagine there to be, either out of greed or out of innocence. Or sometimes madness.

Nirvana means to extinguish the burning fires of the Three Poisons: greed, anger, and ignorance. This can be accomplished by letting go of dissatisfaction.

A sack that can contain a person's greed...doesn't exist in this world. If your hearts not content, no matter how much you put in the sack, it's never enough.

Capitalism is against the things that we say we believe in - democracy, freedom of choice, fairness. It's not about any of those things now. It's about protecting the wealthy and legalizing greed.

Stealing to eat ain’t criminal—stealing to be rich is.

It is supposed to true that those who do not know history are condemned to repeat it. I don't believe knowing can save us. What is constant in history is greed and foolishness and love of blood.

No great advancement has ever been kept at bay because of ideology, nor greed. Eventually progress moves us forward.

He who distinguishes the true savor of his food can never be a glutton; he who does not cannot be otherwise.

Someone reminded me I once said, 'Greed is good.' Now it seems it's legal.

We want to bear witness today that we know the relation between corporate greed and what goes on too often in the Supreme Court decisions.

When the stock market crashed, Franklin Roosevelt got on the television and didn't just talk about the princes of greed. He said, 'Look, here's what happened.'

Greed probably figures in my intellectual life as well, as I attempt to absorb a massive amount of information with consequent mental indigestion.