“Not to be greedy is, paradoxically, the highest form of looking after one's true interests.” — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
“There was a time when our greed had not yet surpassed our imaginations as our greatest asset.” — Thomas Warfield Copy Share Image
“To make your Opinion Count, you have to do something more than just making Money.” — Vineet Raj Kapoor Copy Share Image
Buddhism talks about the possibility of transforming greed, hatred, and delusion. But sometimes need turns into greed. — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
Looking so cool, his greed is hard to conceal, he's fresh out of law school, you gave him a license to steal. — Al Stewart Copy Share Image
Take care to guard against all greed, for though one may be rich, one's life does not consist of possessions. — Luke the Evangelist Copy Share Image
Purity means lack of hatred, jealousy, fear, greed and lust - the absence of anything that can stain consciousness. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
A big man is always accused of gluttony, whereas a wizened or osseous man can eat like a refugee at every meal,… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
If greed were not the master of modern man, how could it be that the frenzy of economic activity does not abate… — E. F. Schumacher Copy Share Image
“If it were not for certain people's greed for wealth, the highways would be filled with cars powered by the sun, and… — Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse Copy Share Image
By the 1980s, businesses had realized that environmental issues had a price tag. Increasingly, they balked. Reflexively, the anticorporate Left pivoted; Earth… — Charles C. Mann Copy Share Image
A compassionate heart still feels anger, greed, jealousy, and other such emotions. But it accepts them for what they are with equanimity,… — Stephen Batchelor Copy Share Image
Let us treasure up in our soul some of those things which are permanent..., not of those which will forsake us and… — Gregory of Nazianzus Copy Share Image
“To dislike something with egoism has been referred to as renunciation (tyaag). Whereas if dislike arises for something whilst in an egoless state, that is… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“The most chronic heart disease is caused by having greediness in your heart. Go for check ups regularly and learn how to… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
“In my impatience I become convinced that this desire of mine should have been fulfilled yesterday, when it belongs to a tomorrow… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“The most dangerous people in the world are not the tiny minority instigating evil acts, but those who do the acts for… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
“For the rest of his life, the greater the chaos, the calmer Rockefeller would become, particularly when others around him were either… — Ryan Holiday Copy Share Image
And what, you ask, does writing teach us? First and foremost, it reminds us that we are alive and that it is… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“The collective sign of relief heaved on V-J Day ought to have inspired Hollywood to release a flood of "happily ever after"… — Eddie Muller Copy Share Image
Greed, desire, ambition, jealousy, possessiveness, domination - you have to watch everything. And they are all interconnected, remember. If greed disappears, then… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
In 302, the Roman emperor Diocletian commanded "there should be cheapness," declaring, "Unprincipled greed appears wherever our armies ... march. ... Our… — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
There's a hole in the world like a great black pit and the vermin of the world inhabit it and its morals… — Stephen Sondheim Copy Share Image
I have lived in the pursuit of a vision, both personal and social. Personal: to care for what is noble, for what… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
If civilization is going to survive, business and policy-makers must move on, to find within themselves more developed emotions than fear or… — Anita Roddick Copy Share Image
“Lust, anger, attachment, greed, over pride be, Jealousy, selfishness, injustice, cruelty, ego truly; - 153 -” — Munindra Misra Copy Share Image
“The God I believe in believes in me and won’t silence my heart or others based on a paycheck at the end… — Shannon Alder Copy Share Image
Good is not good, unless A thousand it possess, But doth waste with greediness. — John Donne Copy Share Image
The miser is the man who starves himself and everybody else, in order to worship wealth in its dead form, as distinct… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The silence of the world could not rein back it's greed. Not any longer. Not when it had virtually won. — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
Sometimes less is more. Time is money. Ideas can be profitable. Separate fans from supporters. Passion exceeds greed. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
'Maneater' is about N.Y.C. in the '80s. It's about greed, avarice, and spoiled riches. — John Oates Copy Share Image
Spirituality is ultimate greed. You don't just want a piece of creation - you want the source of creation. — Jaggi Vasudev Copy Share Image
You can't take anything with you. So I don't understand this whole psychotic area of greed, I don't get it. — Chuck D Copy Share Image
Moliere exaggerates common vices of mankind: lust, greed, misanthropy, hypocrisy. We all have a touch of these. — Dakin Matthews Copy Share Image
Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
“We live in a world where we give our pounds to those who have too much and our pennies to those who… — Dean Griffiths Copy Share Image
The lusts and greeds of the body scandalize the Soul; but it has to come to heel. — Logan Pearsall Smith Copy Share Image
I think most people are very, very much motivated by sex - greed, sex, and hunger. — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
“Neither the world nor one’s actions cause obstructions; kashays (inner anger, pride, deceit, greed) cause obstruction!” — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
