Greed Quotes

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.

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

When one, abandoning greed, feels no greed for what would merit greed, greed gets shed from him - like a drop of water from a lotus leaf.

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

Send me the half that's got my keys.

Money certainly brings out the best in you, doesn't it?

Strikes deeper, grows with more pernicious root.

Greed has replaced religion as the national religion, and with greed comes envy.

Animals are neither gods nor fiends, but men in their way without the lust and greed of man.

Where do you draw the line, between love and greed? We never did know, we always wanted more. We want to take it all in, for one last time, we want to eat the world with our eyes.

Meditation is the alchemy of transforming. The unconscious into the conscious. It gives you a tremendous power, Far greater than anger, greed and lust.

Each of us needs to eliminate our anger, fear and greed. The roots of social conflicts and political tensions are in personal anger, fear and greed.

... not doing what we love in the name of greed is very poor management of our lives.

Spirituality is ultimate greed. You don't just want a piece of creation - you want the source of creation.

To get rid of greed, you should try to do some sort of a collective social work.

The earth has enough resources for our need, but not for our greed.

Man is oftentimes weak-minded enough to be caught in the snare of greed and honeyed words.

Safe-breaking and vault-breaking are at least as old as the pyramids and burial chambers of Egypt. Poking holes in vaults and safes for profit appears to be as durable as greed.

The lusts and greeds of the body scandalize the Soul; but it has to come to heel.

If everybody's behavior can be explained by simple stupidity and greed, there's no point in assuming a conspiracy.

As the farmer said, "I'm not greedy, all I want is the land next to mine.

Is it not the excess and greed of this and the neglect of all other things that revolutionizes this constitution too and prepares the way for the necessity of a dictatorship?

John will never send a boy or girl in a uniform anywhere in the world because of our need and greed for oil.

I'm a joker who has understood his epoch and has extracted all he possibly could from the stupidity, greed and vanity of his contemporaries.

Money. The ultimate motivation. The ultimate way of keeping score.

The best client is a scared millionaire.

I want an Oompa-Loompa!' screamed Veruca.

Fraud is the daughter of greed.

Patriarchy is connected to greed, a symptom of a larger force that can only be dispelled through kindness and love. It's basic Buddhism.

We have become so addicted to our greed-driven habits that we have lost our moral compass and don't know what is right and wrong.

The party which is out sees nothing but graft and incapacity in the party which is in; and the party which is in sees nothing but greed and animosity in the party which is out.

People who are tired of K Street corruption and Wall Street greed are ready for Main Street Values.

Corporate greed is killing America, and that's what we battling at Boeing.

Greed is an integral quality of a strong player.

What has patriotism come to be but greed and false pride, when the only way it can show itself is by shedding blood to gain gold? More economic advantage, more territory, more power.

The must have it now mentality, was man's first step into the gorging of his natural home.

Greed is the assumption that it is all for my consumption.

It isn't that greed's increased. What's increased is the realization that you've got a free field to reach out for what you'd like to do.

Left to my own devices, in the face of the climate change deniers, the madness and the greed-based decision-making, and propaganda that's been floating around, it's hard not to become pessimistic.

Curst greed of gold, what crimes thy tyrant power has caused.

Spirituality for the most part is a mask worn by idleness, arrogance and greed.

Politics may come and go, but Greed goes on forever.

Though statisticians in our time have never kept the score, Man wants a great deal here below and Woman even more.

The corporation cannot be ethical, its only responsibility is to make a profit.

Happy the person who has learned the cause of things and has put under his or her feet all fear, inexorable fate, and the noisy strife of the hell of greed.

Elevation of today's generation, if I can make them listen. Prisons ain't what we need, no longer stuck in greed.

You have to remove your human sentiment when it comes to greed and the accumulation of wealth.

Avarice, or the desire of gain, is a universal passion which operates at all times, at all places, and upon all persons.

The greed for fruit misses the flower.

How could sufferings be relieved through purification? To know the Path is to get lost at the ford. Indeed, sickness comes from worldly love And poverty begins with the pursuit of greed.