Greed quotes:

Send

Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction. -- Erich Fromm
Greed and globalization aren't just America's fault. -- Arlo Guthrie
Greed is so destructive. It destroys everything. -- Eartha Kitt
Greed is the lack of confidence of one's own ability to create. -- Vanna Bonta
Leadership is a privilege to better the lives of others. It is not an opportunity to satisfy personal greed. -- Mwai Kibaki
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. -- Michael Douglas
At the heart of every really good Christmas movie is the threat, I suppose, to Christmas. Something is wrong with Christmas, in all of these movies. In 'The Polar Express,' there's a kid that doesn't really believe, and that's the threat to Christmas. In 'Santa Claus: The Movie,' jealousy and greed are threatening to overrun his Christmas. -- James McAvoy
Greed can overtake smart. -- Bill Maher
Greed is permanent slavery -- Ali ibn Abi Talib
Greed has no boundaries -- Aristotle
Greed kills us all. -- Kentetsu Takamori
Greed puts out the sun. -- Ursula K. Le Guin
Greed has poisoned men's souls -- Charlie Chaplin
Greed is too flimsy to flawed -- Mario
Greed is normally balanced by fear. -- Peter Schiff
Greed's worst point is its ingratitude. -- Seneca the Younger
Greed is merely a species of nearsightedness. -- Henry Ford
Greed:Your own lies make you sick. -- Kristian Goldmund Aumann
Greed is really the religion of vulgarity. -- Massimo Vignelli
Greed is costly. Assembled fortunes are lost. -- Laozi
Greed is gross. Greed is vile. Greed sucks. -- Yasmin Alibhai-Brown
Greed is an integral quality of a strong player. -- Sergei Shipov
Remember: Greed is a bad color on a person. -- Bill Engvall
Greed is good. Sex is easy. Youth is forever -- Bret Easton Ellis
Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. -- Michael Douglas
Greed is not a financial issue. It's a heart issue. -- Andy Stanley
Politics may come and go, but Greed goes on forever. -- Vernor Vinge
Greed, like the love of comfort, is a kind of fear. -- Cyril Connolly
Greed is the assumption that it is all for my consumption. -- Andy Stanley
Greed is but a word jealous men inflict upon the ambitious. -- Marcus Licinius Crassus
Lust, Greed, Anger, Attachment - These are all paths to hell. -- Neem Karoli Baba
Greed and selfishness do seem to be central motivators of mankind. -- Raymond Khoury
Greed is a deprivation of abundance, a hoarding, a constriction of energy. -- Terry Tempest Williams
Mr. Greed, why do you have to own everything that you see? -- John Fogerty
Greed is the inventor of injustice as well as the current enforcer. -- Julian Casablancas
The only engine big enough to impact Mother Nature is Father Greed. -- Thomas Friedman
Greed-for lack of a better word-is good. Greed is right. Greed works. -- Oliver Stone
Greed has been severely underestimated and denigrated - unfairly so, in my opinion. -- Conrad Black
Greed has taken the whole universe, and nobody is worried about their soul. -- Little Richard
Greed has replaced religion as the national religion, and with greed comes envy. -- Wesley Pruden
I fear just one thing : Money! Greed was what motivated Judas to sell Jesus -- Mother Teresa
Greed often finds more pleasure in taking from others than in giving to itself. -- Simon May
Greed makes man blind and foolish, and makes him an easy prey for death. -- Rumi
Someone reminded me I once said, 'Greed is good.' Now it seems it's legal. -- Michael Douglas
Greed is good! Greed is right! Greed works! Greed will save the U.S.A.! -- Michael Douglas
Capitalism: Nothing so mean could be right. Greed is the ugliest of the capital sins. -- Edward Abbey
I was Amazement--I was Desire--I was Ecstasy and Rapture and the slightest bit of Greed. -- Sharon Shinn
I was Amazement--I was Desire--I was Ecstasy and Rapture and the slightest bit of Greed." -- Sharon Shinn
Greed is at the bottom of most of the wrong-doing with which government has to deal. -- William Jennings Bryan
Greed is a fat demon with a small mouth and whatever you feed it is never enough. -- Janwillem van de Wetering
Greed has poisoned men's souls, has barricaded the world with hate; has goose-stepped us into misery and bloodshed. -- Charlie Chaplin
You're not a road comic till you've watched Real Sex and American Greed alone in your hotel room. -- Iliza Shlesinger
Greed squeezes your dreams into a portable size, so that failure can easily carry them to dump somewhere. -- Israelmore Ayivor
Greed harms you: generosity helps you. This is why it has been said: 'Greed is the mother of incapacity'. -- Idries Shah
The ignorant mind, with its infinite afflictions, passions, and evils, is rooted in the three poisons. Greed, anger, and delusion. -- Bodhidharma
Greed stains our culture, soaks our sensibilities and has replaced grace as a sign of our intimacy with the divine. -- Jennifer Stone
Greed, it ain't going anywhere. They should have that in a big billboard across Times Square. Without people you're nothing -- Joe Strummer
Greed is a basic part of animal nature. Being against it is like being against breathing or eating. It means nothing. -- Ben Stein
Greed, the desire to incorporate, is magnified and fed back to produce the pretan realms, just as hate creates the hells. -- Robert Thurman
Greed is good to most economists. It's greed that makes people work harder, be more productive and helps the economy grow. -- Rebecca M. Blank
Need' now means wanting someone else's money. 'Greed' means wanting to keep your own. 'Compassion' is when a politician arranges the transfer. -- Joseph Sobran
Greed has driven the world crazy. And I think I'm lucky that I have a place over here that I can call home. -- Nina Simone
Greed probably figures in my intellectual life as well, as I attempt to absorb a massive amount of information with consequent mental indigestion. -- Etty Hillesum
As to the Seven Deadly Sins, I deplore Pride, Wrath, Lust, Envy and Greed. Gluttony and Sloth I pretty much plan my day around. -- Robert Breault
Greed is an imperfection that defiles the mind; hate is an imperfection that defiles the mind; delusion is an imperfection that defiles the mind. -- Gautama Buddha
--
Greed is a sin against God, just as all mortal sins, in as much as man condemns things eternal for the sake of temporal things, -- Thomas Aquinas
Greed is mistaken nobility. Instead of robbing all the pain and hardship from people's lives and rescuing them from danger, greed robs provisions from providers. -- Justin K. McFarlane Beau
Greed, accident, or malice may have harmful results, but, barring something truly apocalyptic, a resilient system can absorb such results without its overall health being threatened. -- Jamais Cascio
Greed is supported by an endless cast of what-ifs. Greedy people can never have enough to satisfy the need they feel in light of every conceivable eventuality. -- Andy Stanley
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. -- Hiromu Arakawa
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 -- Hiromu Arakawa
Greed can be very dangerous because you sacrifice your soul for the sake of something material, and then you start sacrificing people in order to keep that which is material. -- Eartha Kitt
The man who sailed around his soul From East to West, from pole to pole With ego as his drunken captain Greed, the mutineer, had trapped all reason in the hold -- Andy Partridge
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. -- Dalai Lama
Poverty wants much; but avarice, everything. -- Publilius Syrus
For greed all nature is too little. -- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
He who is greedy is always in want. -- Horace
Purposeless activity may be a phase of death. -- Pearl S. Buck
Lust and greed are more gullible than innocence. -- Mason Cooley
Nothing makes us more vulnerable than loneliness except greed. -- Thomas Harris
The only effective answer to organized greed is organized labor. -- Thomas R. Donahue
You show me a capitalist, and I'll show you a bloodsucker. -- Malcolm X
Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed. -- Mahatma Gandhi
There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it. -- Maya Angelou
I think greed is healthy. You can be greedy and still feel good about yourself. -- Ivan Boesky
All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry. -- Edgar Allan Poe
There is a sufficiency in the world for man's need but not for man's greed. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Men hate the individual whom they call avaricious only because nothing can be gained from him. -- Voltaire
It is greed to do all the talking but not to want to listen at all. -- Democritus
He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose. -- Jim Elliot
You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need. -- Vernon Howard
Do not follow vain desires; for verily he who prospers is preserved from lust, greed and anger. -- Abu Bakr
New York City is a great monument to the power of money and greed... a race for rent. -- Frank Lloyd Wright
If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world. -- J. R. R. Tolkien
Calm self-confidence is as far from conceit as the desire to earn a decent living is remote from greed. -- Channing Pollock
Reduce the complexity of life by eliminating the needless wants of life, and the labors of life reduce themselves. -- Edwin Way Teale
If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it. -- Socrates
Fear and greed are potent motivators. When both of these forces push in the same direction, virtually no human being can resist. -- Andrew Weil
We can't allow any war for imperialism or greed to be fought in our names. This is what we need to keep fighting for. -- Cindy Sheehan
Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind. -- Henry David Thoreau
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. -- Charles Kuralt
We are in danger of destroying ourselves by our greed and stupidity. We cannot remain looking inwards at ourselves on a small and increasingly polluted and overcrowded planet. -- Stephen Hawking
The writer's greed is appalling. He wants, or seems to want, everything and practically everybody, in another sense, and at the same time, he needs no one at all. -- James A. Baldwin
Let us wage a moral and political war against the billionaires and corporate leaders, on Wall Street and elsewhere, whose policies and greed are destroying the middle class of America. -- Bernie Sanders
The 20th century has been marked by cynicism, selfishness, greed, and the desire to please, all without changing the status quo. In the 21st century, we must resurrect solidarity and compassion. -- Oscar Arias
You say, 'If I had a little more, I should be very satisfied.' You make a mistake. If you are not content with what you have, you would not be satisfied if it were doubled. -- Charles Haddon Spurgeon
In our daily life, we encounter people who are angry, deceitful, intent only on satisfying their own needs. There is so much anger, distrust, greed, and pettiness that we are losing our capacity to work well together. -- Margaret J. Wheatley
If we weren't born with anti-social passions - narcissism, envy, lust, meanness, greed, hunger for power, just to name the more obvious - why the need for so many laws, whether religious or secular, that govern behavior? -- Dennis Prager
--
The Bible and several other self help or enlightenment books cite the Seven Deadly Sins. They are: pride, greed, lust, envy, wrath, sloth, and gluttony. That pretty much covers everything that we do, that is sinful... or fun for that matter. -- Dave Mustaine
This society is driven by neurotic speed and force accelerated by greed and frustration of not being able to live up to the image of men and woman we have created for ourselves; the image has nothing to do with the reality of people. -- Yoko Ono
We didn't become the most prosperous country in the world just by rewarding greed and recklessness. We didn't come this far by letting the special interests run wild. We didn't do it just by gambling and chasing paper profits on Wall Street. We built this country by making things, by producing goods we could sell. -- Barack Obama
When the Internet first came into public use, it was hailed as a liberation from conformity, a floating world ruled by passion, creativity, innovation and freedom of information. When it was hijacked first by advertising and then by commerce, it seemed like it had been fully co-opted and brought into line with human greed and ambition. -- Neil Strauss
The 2008 financial crisis is usually attributed to vampire squid greed. There was certainly a lot of that. But it was also just as likely to have been caused by the chaos of process created by those big, sexy bank mergers when, in the name of 'economies of scale,' critical members of the trust and responsibility chain were cavalierly eliminated. -- Tina Brown
A greedy father has thieves for children -- Serbian Proverb
Hell has three gates: lust, anger, and greed -- Bhagavad Gita
Curst greed of gold, what crimes thy tyrant power has caused -- Virgil
It is greed to do all the talking but not to want to listen at all -- Democritus
Take heed never take advantage of the things you need never let yourself be overcome by greed walk the straight and narrow and you shall succeed -- Shaggy

Send