“When prayer, rituals and ascetic life are just a means of self-indulgence, they are harmful rather than beneficial.” — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
The avarice of the miser may be termed the grand sepulchral of all his other passions, as they successively decay. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
“Thankfulness acknowledges that we can’t own anything, but we can experience everything. And just knowing that makes me thankful.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“The value of money is a scam perpetuated by those who have it over those who don't.” — Karen Joy Fowler Copy Share Image
People always should know better. People don't get - they don't get smarter about things that get as basic as greed. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
You're not a road comic till you've watched Real Sex and American Greed alone in your hotel room. — Iliza Shlesinger Copy Share Image
“Neither turn to thy own way nor seek thy own gain. But inquire the good way's of God.” — Lailah Gifty Akita Copy Share Image
The problem with capitalism is... Eventually you will have run other people out of their money — Jorebungley Copy Share Image
What are we to think of the shortsightedness of the great mass of people who are content to do nothing about it,… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
Greed in human nature may now come near to enslaving all humanity by means of the Machine - so fast and far… — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
You say, 'If I had a little more, I should be very satisfied.' You make a mistake. If you are not content… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
“It is only when we see the worst that Man can offer, that we begin to see the best that Man still… — Faith Brashear Copy Share Image
Brave doesn't spread hate or bully the vulnerable. Brave doesn't put greed and self-interest over millions of lives. Brave doesn't cower behind… — Kirsten Gillibrand Copy Share Image
“The communist creed: From each according to his ability, to each according to his need. The capitalist creed: From each according to… — Thom Hartmann Copy Share Image
“Either the key to a man's wallet is in his heart, or the key to a man's heart is in his wallet.… — Noah Benshea Copy Share Image
“They overdid everything, especially their greed for money. All three generations of Rumanian Hohenzollerns had a passion for wealth and were incredibly… — R.G. Waldeck Copy Share Image
“And, as I watched the Lincoln come by degrees to a relationship with what it saw, I understood something: the basis of… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
We have looked first at man with his vanities and greed and his problems of a day or a year; and then… — Rachel Carson Copy Share Image
If our leaders are to enjoy the trappings of their position in the hierarchy, then we expect them to offer us protection.… — Simon Sinek Copy Share Image
“The television commercial has mounted the most serious assault on capitalist ideology since the publication of Das Kapital. To understand why, we… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
“Brad Green, almost overnight, became the poster boy for the common Wall Street tale - proving once again that greed, most definitely,… — Phil Wohl Copy Share Image
“As I get older I can see the patterns, the ugly corporate face behind the great machine. The sad and over competitive… — R.M. Engelhardt Copy Share Image
I don't care if you're a parent giving to a child, a worker to a company, or a romantic to a lover,… — John Frederick Demartini Copy Share Image
What does labor want? We want more schoolhouses and less jails; more books and less arsenals; more learning and less vice; more… — Samuel Gompers Copy Share Image
Altruism is a fine motive, but if you want results, greed works much better. — Henry Spencer Copy Share Image
“good is accomplished against the immense black-hole gravity of greed and fear.” — Kim Stanley Robinson Copy Share Image
Love of the simple is all that I need, I've no time for schism or lovers of greed. — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
“A system is corrupt when it is strictly profit-driven, not driven to serve the best interests of its people, but those of… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
Liberation didn't solve anything. It just opened up the doors to greed. Some people mix up sex now as if they were… — Jeanne Moreau Copy Share Image
From the first day to this, sheer greed was the driving spirit of civilization. — Friedrich Engels Copy Share Image
“Day and night - ruthlessly apply key lessons of mankind such as leaving greed, fear and lust to improve the efficiency &… — Dr V V Rao Copy Share Image
People seem to take as much offence as they possibly can these days - it's almost a new type of greed, a… — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
The evil in our desires typically does not lie in what we want, but that we want it too much. — John Calvin Copy Share Image
“A greedy person doesn't even waste time for laughing. He is preoccupied with greed all day long.” — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
I glory, more in the cunning purchase of my wealth than in the glad possession. — Ben Jonson Copy Share Image
“Kashays (anger-pride-deceit-greed) will not leave through suppression, they will leave through Gnan (Self-realization).” — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
The discovery of America was the occasion of the greatest outburst of cruelty and reckless greed known in history. — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
Peace is a virtual, mute, sustained victory of potential powers against probable greeds — Paul Valery Copy Share Image
There is no vice which humankind carries to such wild extremes as that of avarice. — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
Sacrifice, so that you may be saved. You have to sacrifice, not a bleating sheep or a horse or a cow, but… — Sathya Sai Baba Copy Share Image
