Greed Quotes · Page 20

Strikes deeper, grows with more pernicious root.

— William Shakespeare

Greed is so destructive. It destroys everything.

— Eartha Kitt

“The virtues of free enterprise can become distorted by greed & delusion.”

— Allan Lokos

Greed is really the religion of vulgarity.

— Massimo Vignelli

Greed-for lack of a better word-is good. Greed is right. Greed works.

— Oliver Stone

“Wherever there is power, greed, and money, there is corruption.”

— Ken Poirot

“Generally, people need less than a quarter of what they want.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

The currency of real networking is not greed but generosity.

— Anonymous

The practice of gratitude is incompatible with negative emotions and may actually diminish or deter such feelings as anger, bitterness, and greed.

— Sonja Lyubomirsky

“We had made the error of staying small – and there is no more unforgivable crime in America.”

— Pat Conroy

“hated casinos. The lure of easy money brought out the worst in people. The air smelled of greed, disappointment, and desperation.”

— Ilona Andrews

Responsible people work, earn, save, invest, make things better for self & family. Lefties call that "greed."

— Philip Schuyler

“Materialism—an attachment to physical goods beyond their practical value—was a trap; a chain to ensnare the foolish with their own greed.”

— Drew Karpyshyn

A weakness of this age is our inability to distinguish our needs from our greeds.

— Anonymous

There will be people who will teach for the sake of greed or for the sake of ego. So watch their lives.…

— Francis Chan

Corporate greed in New York won. It suffocated anything interesting out of the city.

— James Ransone

There are six reasons anyone does anything: Love. Faith. Greed. Boredom. Fear..." he said, ticking them off on his fingers; but he…

— Ally Carter

“Of all the countries in the world, we Americans have been the greatest destroyers of land of any race of people barbaric…

— Timothy Egan

“My heart is hardy, for I have suffered much on the seas and the battlefield: this will be only something more. But…

— W.H.D. Rouse

Greed is not defined by what something costs; it is measured by what it costs you. If anything costs you your faith…

— Max Lucado

Lyndon Johnson believed the poor deserved a better life than the economy was providing them. He thought private power and greed had…

— Bill Moyers

The Enron scandal calls into question the integrity of the entire capitalist system, which previously we assumed was based on honest, straightforward…

— Joel Achenbach

I'm filled with despair. We live in a pathological culture filled with rage and bitterness and greed. The hate-mongering and racism is…

— Alison Hawthorne Deming

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

— Marc Estrin

Dostoevsky wrote fiction about identity, moral value, death, will, sexual vs. spiritual love, greed, freedom, obsession, reason, faith, suicide. And he did…

— David Foster Wallace

I look around me and I find the things Ive seen have made me blind. I can no longer look and see…

— Curly Girl

Who does not know that kings and rulers sprang from men who were ignorant of God, who assumed because of blind greed…

— Pope Gregory VII

No one "discovers" the future. The future is not a discovery. The future is not a destiny. The future is a decision,…

— Leonard Sweet

“Uncouth, clannish, lumbering about the confines of Space and Time with a puzzled expression on his face and a handful of things…

— M. John Harrison

jewels have played a colorful part in the evolution of world affairs. Because precious stones tend to inspire both admiration and greed,…

— Madeleine Albright

“I wanted them to realized that there is enough time, enough love, and certainly enough apple pie in life ... I believed…

— Judith Hanson Lasater

Keep your hands clean and pure from the infamous vice of corruption, a vice so infamous that it degrades even the other…

— Lord Chesterfield

When we let our GREED become our NEED, we can never be HAPPY indeed!

— Anonymous

“Short-term reward, long-term damage: greed over curiosity.”

— Nora Bateson

“The world has enough for everyone's need but not for everyone's greed.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

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

— Mark Hanna

The bounty of nature is too little for the greedy person.

— Seneca the Younger

“it does seem as if the more one gets the more one wants,”

— Louisa May Alcott

Only those blinded by greed would refuse to let a friend make a copy.

— Aaron Swartz

I have a greed to work with good directors.

— Neha Dhupia