Greed Quotes · Page 40

Cardinal Mazarin was a great knave, but no great man; much more cunning than able; scandalously false and dirtily greedy.

— Lord Chesterfield

“If we have greed, we will come across a ‘guru’ (a fraudster). If we have greed for earning, then we will encounter…

— Dada Bhagwan

“That is why one of Rich's most powerful songs, and one he enjoyed singing in concert more than any other, is “Greed.”

— James Bryan Smith

All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.

— Edgar Allan Poe

Life is easy, life is delightful. It's only hard on your illusions, your ambitions, your greed, your cravings.

— Anthony de Mello

God can rid your heart of greed, but it's your responsibility to remove yourself from situations that promote greediness.

— Linda Dillow

“motives for greed and selfishness are often attributed to toil and source of riches.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

Though avarice will prevent a man from being necessitously poor, it generally makes him too timorous to be wealthy.

— Thomas Paine

Kaisers and Czars will strut the stage Once more with pomp and greed and rage; Courtly ministers will stop At home and…

— Robert Graves

I believe capitalism will eventually be replaced by a communitarian ethic where the rights and care of all beings will be taken…

— Terry Tempest Williams

“But when we crave power over life—endless wealth, unassailable safety, immortality—then desire becomes greed. And if knowledge allies itself to that greed,…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

Some people are afraid of generosity. They feel they will be taken advantage of or oppressed. In cultivating generosity, we are only…

— Ajahn Chah

We are in danger of destroying ourselves by our greed and stupidity. We cannot remain looking inwards at ourselves on a small…

— Stephen Hawking

“Their hands are tied not by ropes but by the greed of the intermediaries that the system has generated, who eat up…

— Faraaz Kazi

Everything I had been taught to regard as a vice - and I still regard them as vices - under Thatcherism was…

— Glenda Jackson

what man calls civilizationalways results in desertsman is never on the squarehe uses up the fat and greenery of the eartheach generation…

— Don Marquis

...The way of life can be free and beautiful. But we have lost the way. Greed has poisoned men's souls, has barricaded…

— Charlie Chaplin

Right now, the technological world plus God or spirituality is evolving. I think America has become a little bit too corrupt, government's…

— Robert Kiyosaki

“[I]t is not by being richer or more powerful that a man becomes better; one is a matter of fortune, the other…

— Héloïse

The principal hindrance to the advancement of the kingdom of God is greed. It is the chief obstacle to heaven-sent revival. It…

— O. S. Hawkins

“Too late for that now,” the Eldest Leprechaun said. “The damage is done. Give the thing a name, and it takes shape.…

— Andrew M. Greeley

“The splendor of the salmon canapés radiant with mayonnaise disappears, swallowed by the dark shopping bags of the customers. Certainly every one…

— Italo Calvino

“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]…

— Dada Bhagwan

It's a cultural disability in America that we worship pleasure, leisure, and affluence. I think the church is doubly damned when they…

— Rich Mullins

Avarice, with all its black attendants, is confessedly a crime of old age, and seldom arrives at maturity till accompanied with gray…

— Mary Collyer

Always stand beyond the range of rapacity, pomposity, prig and greed to be protected by the curse of adversity.

— Anonymous

If we got one-tenth of what was promised to us in these acceptance speeches there wouldn't be any inducement to go to…

— Will Rogers

It was not curiosity that killed the goose who laid the golden egg, but an insatiable greed that devoured common sense.

— Anonymous

The love for material things grows like a fungus in the soul and destroys the loveliness of the human heart utterly.

— Caryll Houselander

We close our eyes for what we dont want to see, just to enjoy the lies we love to hear.

— Anonymous

We want to bear witness today that we know the relation between corporate greed and what goes on too often in the…

— Cornel West

When a man becomes old, his greed becomes young: sleep grows heavy at the time of morning.

— Saib Tabrizi

The main source of our wealth is goodness. The affections and the generous qualities that God admires in a world full of…

— Alfred Armand Montapert

Let me tell you, Cassius, you yourself are much condemned to have an itching palm.

— William Shakespeare

“The difference between greed and ambition is a greedy person desires things he isn't prepared to work for.”

— Habeeb Akande

“It is axiomatic that the attempt to become a Sufi through a desire for personal power as normally understood will not succeed.”

— Idries Shah

“The one whose kashays, (inner anger, pride, deceit, greed) are gone is worthy of worship. The absence of inner intent of kashays…

— Dada Bhagwan

Fear and greed are probably the worst emotions to have in connection with the purchase and sale of stocks.

— Walter Schloss

Nothing, not love, not greed, not passion or hatred, is stronger than a writer's need to change another writer's copy.

— Arthur Evans

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

— Derek Landy