When something good happens to someone else, it takes nothing away from you. Stop being envy. — London Mond Copy Share Image
It's a mystery to me; We have a greed, with which we have agreed. You think you have to want more than… — Eddie Vedder Copy Share Image
People's lives are forever controlled by two emotions: fear and greed. — Robert Kiyosaki Copy Share Image
The bourgeoisie is very fond of so-called practical types and novels with happy endings, since they soothe it with the idea that… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
The con is a kind of jiu-jitsu that turns the sucker's own greed into its principal weapon. The greedier you are the… — Luc Sante Copy Share Image
A wise man should order his interests, and set them all in their proper places. This order is often troubled by greed,… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Greed is a fat demon with a small mouth and whatever you feed it is never enough. — Janwillem van de Wetering Copy Share Image
“The ugliest thing in America is greed, the lust for power and domination, the lunatic ideology of perpetual Growth - with a… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Animal cruelty is like a sick focus point at one extreme of almost universal raping of mother nature for mans greed. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Laissez-faire, Supply-and-demand, - one begins to be weary of all that. Leave all to egoism, to ravenous greed of money, of pleasure,… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
“It is supposed to be true that those who do not know history are condemned to repeat it. I don't believe knowing… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
When trying a case [the famous judge] L. Cassius never failed to inquire "Who gained by it?" Man's character is such that… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
“Wars have always been with us, as have droughts. No, in the end, I think it will be greed that does us… — Erica Verrillo Copy Share Image
Is it not the excess and greed of this and the neglect of all other things that revolutionizes this constitution too and… — Plato Copy Share Image
“There is no more destructive force in human affairs -- not greed, not hatred -- than the desire to have been right.… — Mark A.R. Kleiman Copy Share Image
''And one day when all is gone and mankind is lost, all he leaves is the desert.'' ''For man is his own… — Jeremy Limn Copy Share Image
“[I]t is not by being richer or more powerful that a man becomes better; one is a matter of fortune, the other… — Héloïse Copy Share Image
Do not follow vain desires; for verily he who prospers is preserved from lust, greed and anger. — Abu Bakr Copy Share Image
People who are tired of K Street corruption and Wall Street greed are ready for Main Street Values. — Mike Huckabee Copy Share Image
We need to get back to reasoning and thinking things through. The future generation is being brought up in greed and without… — Richard Dreyfuss Copy Share Image
“I sit on a man's back choking him and making him carry me, and yet assure myself and others that I am… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Why me?” I secreted into her ear. “You were the only one I saw,” she whispered back, making my heart burst.” — Fisher Amelie Copy Share Image
“It is often said of the gold rush that the people who got rich were the shovel dealers who profited from the… — Zac Bissonnette Copy Share Image
That poverty is no disaster is understood by everyone who has not yet succumbed to the madness of greed and luxury that… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Ambition and thirst for power have a part but greed and greed alone is the reason for a man wanting to swell… — Charles Ranlett Flint Copy Share Image