Greed has poisoned men's souls

Stephanie could see the greed seep into the watery eyes of her father’s other brother, a horrible little man called Fergus, as he nodded…

— Derek Landy

“Where there are kashays (anger-pride-deceit-greed), there is worldly life. As long as anger-pride-deceit-greed exist; one is a sansaari [living a worldly life] regardless of…

— Dada Bhagwan

“THE UNFORGIVEN Tell me if you've ever had to deal with these kinds of people: The kind who take and don't give. The kind…

— Suzy Kassem

The law is the collective organization of the individual's right to lawful defense of his life, liberty and property. When it is used for…

— Frederic Bastiat

“The fact that they viewed their wealth as a result of their own hands, without any honor other than lip service being given to…

— Lee Goff

“Be fearful when others are greedy, and be greedy when others are fearful.”

— Warren Buffett

avarice breeds envy, a worm that is always gnawing, letting the avaricious enjoy neither their own nor anyone else's good.

— St. Catherine of Siena

“In a similar way, The Art of War pinpoints anger and greed as fundamental causes of defeat.”

— Sun Tzu

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

— Pope Gregory VII

''And one day when all is gone and mankind is lost, all he leaves is the desert.'' ''For man is his own demise the…

— Jeremy Limn

“Wisdom teaches us that our real enemies are never other living beings. They are ignorance and its minions, including greed, hatred, anger, pride, and…

— Guy Newland

“Suckers think that you cure greed with money, addiction with substances, expert problems with experts, banking with bankers, economics with economists, and debt crises…

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

The universe appears to me like an immense, inexorable torture-garden…Passions, greed, hatred, and lies; social institutions, justice, love, glory, heroism, and religion: these are…

— Octave Mirbeau

“Thankfulness acknowledges that we can’t own anything, but we can experience everything. And just knowing that makes me thankful.”

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

Con men look for human frailty to exploit. This is most often greed. Trump found a different vice: anger. The emotional are always the…

— Pamela Meyer