Greed Quotes

The basis of tragedy is man's helplessness against disease, war and death; the basis of comedy is man's helplessness against vanity (the vanity of love, greed, lust, power).

One path is greed, the second is curiosity. With one, the journey is to a reward; with the other, the journey is the reward.

When a man becomes old, his greed becomes young: sleep grows heavy at the time of morning.

As long as greed, stupidity and cowardice remain a part of the human condition, there will be a constituency for Democrats.

To hazard much to get much has more of avarice than wisdom.

Possessions are usually diminished by possession.

A big man is always accused of gluttony, whereas a wizened or osseous man can eat like a refugee at every meal, and no one ever notices his greed.

But there's got to be an opening somewhere here in front of me. Through this maze of ugliness and greed.

I think there's just too much greed in the world today [and] that's why we have problems.

I have news for the forces of greed and the defenders of the status quo: your time has come - and gone. It's time for change in America.

For top executives to award themselves these kinds of compensation packages in the midst of this economic crisis isn't just bad taste, it's bad strategy, and I will not tolerate it as president.

It's a familiar truism that at any one moment, financial markets are dominated by either fear or greed. But the healthiest markets are those that are animated by both fear and greed at the same time.

Today is much more an age of greed

The miser is as much in want of what he has as of what he has not.

...unless the exchange be in love and kindly justice, it will but lead some to greed and others to hunger.

At the end of the day, anybody who thinks there's a reward for nothing, ends up losing.

The age of selfishness and greed is over. The age of kindness and generosity is underway.

For total greed, rapacity, heartlessness, and irresponsibility there is nothing to match a nation.

God can rid your heart of greed, but it's your responsibility to remove yourself from situations that promote greediness.

In these times gain is not only a matter of greed, but of ambition.

Supermarket tabloids and celebrity gossip shows are not just innocently shallow entertainment, but a fundamental part of a much larger movement that involves apathy, greed and hierarchy.

I don't mind paying people more for something if we're getting more. But just to change a deal because you're greedy and you want more? No. I'm not gonna go along with that.

And their greed was for gold or God. They collected souls as they collected jewels.

The earth has everything for all human needs, but nothing for his greed.

It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have all one wants.

Men of vision. Oh, I love the fine names men give each other to hide their greed and lust for adventure.

In plain Truth, it is no Want, but rather Abundance that creates Avarice.

The self-despisers are less intent on their own increase than on the diminution of others. Where self-esteem is unobtainable, envy takes the place of greed.

The main source of our wealth is goodness. The affections and the generous qualities that God admires in a world full of greed.

The role of government is to create responsible greed to keep boundaries around what people do.

Revolt is the mirror in which greed is forced to see itself.

Our world has grown weary of greed, exploitation and division, of the tedium of false idols and piecemeal responses, and the pain of false promises.

Time! Joyless emblem of the greed of millions, robber of the best which earth can give.

Greed is good! Greed is right! Greed works! Greed will save the U.S.A.!

Through the machineries of greed, pettiness, and the abuse of power, love occurs.

The cancer in me became an awareness of the cancer that is everywhere. The cancer of cruelty, the cancer of carelessness, the cancer of greed.

The essence of good advertising is not to inspire hope, but to create greed.

I'm fat because I'm greedy, and if my mind is fat it's because I'm curious.

Fear and greed are potent motivators. When both of these forces push in the same direction, virtually no human being can resist.

The Duke of Dunstable had one-way pockets. He would walk ten miles in the snow to chisel an orphan out of tuppence.

Greed is not a financial issue. It's a heart issue.

While neurological studies have tried to identify components responsible for fear and greed, the impact on finance is less clear.

Most wars are fought for greed, but we are luckier here we fight for our lives and the lives of the people we love.

Many people and companies only have one goal: money, money, and more money. Greed is ok when you let others profit from it, but greed for oneself is bad, it makes you ill.

People's lives are filled with vice and the trappings of it. Ambition, greed and selfishness all have to do with vice. Sooner or later, you have to see through it or you don't survive.

The possession of power over others is inherently destructive both to the possessor of the power and to those over whom it is exercised.

I'm not against the corporations. They are our wealth. But they are getting too greedy. I don't want to do away with corporations. I want them to make our cars, however, not our laws.

We need to move beyond the demonisation of overpaid traders ... In finance and economics, ill-designed policy is a more powerful force for harm than individual greed or error.

To those who can hear me, I say, do not despair. The misery that is now upon us is but the passing of greed, the bitterness of men who fear the way of human progress.

I vote far-left. I am frequently angered by corporate greed and think education ought to be free and teachers paid well.