The privileged have regularly invited their own destruction with their greed. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
The path of love has many opponents - fear, self-pity, anxiety, hate, lust, greed, avarice - all the usual freinds. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Corporate greed in New York won. It suffocated anything interesting out of the city. — James Ransone Copy Share Image
There will be people who will teach for the sake of greed or for the sake of ego. So watch their lives.… — Francis Chan Copy Share Image
A weakness of this age is our inability to distinguish our needs from our greeds. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“I have observed that in process of becoming ultra rich & famous individual, most of them at later years in life dies… — Aditya Ajmera Copy Share Image
“this was a consequence of increasing prosperity, which, curiously enough, just seemed to bring out greed and selfishness.” — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
We've poured our poisons into the world as though it were a bottomless pit.. and we go on gobbling them up. It's… — Daniel Quinn Copy Share Image
“The wish to acquire is in truth very natural and common, and men always do so when they can, and for this… — W.K. Marriott Copy Share Image
“More clothes, more cars, more cash, Just how much will you consider enough! Till you put a cork on cocky abundance, Not… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
It's really hard to have a fair discussion when you're faced with militarism, aggression, and greed. The militarists do not want dialogue.… — Carolee Schneemann Copy Share Image
Our first computers were born not out of greed or ego, but in the revolutionary spirit of helping common people rise above… — Steve Wozniak Copy Share Image
“The kashays (inner anger, pride, deceit and greed) that keep one entrenched in the coolness of the worldly life are the very… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
From eating meat arrogance is born, from arrogance erroneous imaginations issue, and from imagination is born greed; and for this reason refrain… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
“You [demagogues] are like the fishers for eels; in still waters they catch nothing, but if they thoroughly stir up the slime,… — Aristophanes Copy Share Image
Our country, our economy - don't doubt me on this - our economy is based on capitalism. Barack Obama's stated reason for… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
We honor ambition, we reward greed, we celebrate materialism, we worship acquisitiveness, we commercialize art, we cherish success and then we bark… — Russell Baker Copy Share Image
European and American companies companies do create jobs for some people but what they're mainly going to do is make an already… — Aung San Suu Kyi Copy Share Image
“I started toward the barn and was grateful that the wind was still. About halfway up the drive, my heart began to… — Fisher Amelie Copy Share Image
Some sins have no season. We are as likely to be angry in November as to lose our rag in March ...… — Ann Wroe Copy Share Image
“Alderic, Knight of the Order of the City and the Assault, hereditary Guardian of the King's Peace of Mind, a man not… — Lord Dunsany Copy Share Image
If the oncoming mutation to interstellar immortality is screwed up by the politicians, it will be because those of us who see… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
Urges ... every man has urges. But the true measure of man is to admit them, to learn to control them. The… — Bray Wyatt Copy Share Image
...unless the exchange be in love and kindly justice, it will but lead some to greed and others to hunger. — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
I think there's just too much greed in the world today [and] that's why we have problems. — Robert Kiyosaki Copy Share Image
I think the greedy corporate owners have to be confronted with the fact that they are ignoring their most powerful resource -… — John Sweeney Copy Share Image
He was seized and dragged off to King Philip, and being asked who he was, replied, "A spy upon your insatiable greed." — Diogenes Copy Share Image
The reason the Christians have murdered on such a vast scale and killed anyone and everyone in their way is purely and… — Bartolome de las Casas Copy Share Image
We live in a system that espouses merit, equality, and a level playing field, but exalts those with wealth, power, and celebrity,… — Derrick Bell Copy Share Image
“In English we say: the best things in life are free. In Naskarian we say: abundance without awareness causes sickness.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“I do not want to grow for the sake of growth. Never will I be blind by greed.” — Muhammed Muazu Mukaddas Copy Share Image
“All those that don’t let us work for our Soul (true Self) are our opponents – kashays (anger-pride-deceit-greed). Do not pay heed… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
There are sufficient resources in the world for the needs of everybody, but not enough for the greed of even a significant… — Millard Fuller Copy Share Image
If you eat junk, you look like junk. People say, 'It's not my fault, it's my glands.' It's not; it's greed! — Joan Collins Copy Share Image
Politicians never accuse you of 'greed' for wanting other people's money - only for wanting to keep your own money. — Joseph Sobran Copy Share Image
Men hate the individual whom they call avaricious only because there is nothing to be gained by him. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Money is that dear thing which, if you're not careful, you can squander your whole life thinking of. — Mary Jo Salter Copy Share Image
“This world may be full of greed and tragedy and darkness, but I am fortunate beyond measure to have such people about… — John Gwynne Copy Share Image
“Astonishing, the level of complete bollocks a Venetian will buy for the promise of coin. Greed is a festering chancre on the… — Christopher Moore Copy Share Image