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 Copy Share Image
The life of sensation is the life of greed; it requires more and more. The life of the spirit requires less and… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
“At the root of every form of ungodliness, injustice, nepotism, selfishness, every rivalry and competitive jealousy, is the monster called greed.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
The avarice person is ever in want; let your desired aim have a fixed limit. — Horace Copy Share Image
...people of old deemed freedom from greed precious, and this is how they got beyond the world. — Zicheng Hong Copy Share Image
“The absence of anger-pride-deceit-greed has been referred to as Charitra (Conduct of the Self).” — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
Oh, the jealousy, the greed is the unraveling. It's the unraveling and it undoes all the joy that could be. . — Joni Mitchell Copy Share Image
Wall Street is broken for sure because it succumbed to greed and corruption and pure speculation with no values. — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
“Let the passions and cupidities and dreams and kinks and ideals and greed and hopes and foul corruptions of all men and… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
To me, spirituality is about two things: The liberation of consciousness from all illusion, so that the true nature can shine and… — John William Willis-Bund Copy Share Image
We associate the North Atlantic with cod. The motto of Newfoundland used to be 'In cod we trust.' It was a joke,… — Simon Winchester Copy Share Image
If I heard a girl crying help I would go to save her; But you hardly ever hear those words. Dear children,… — Ruth Stone Copy Share Image
“In fact, the causes of conflict are usually greed, envy, and ambition, but in an effort to sanitize them, these self-serving emotions… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
Politics - I don't know why, but they seem to have a tendency to separate us, to keep us from one another,… — Sean O'Casey Copy Share Image
We are moving from a chain of command to a web of connection, from competition to collaboration, from markets to networks and… — Anodea Judith Copy Share Image
“When did that higher, more spiritual conviction become something craven and greedy? And then again when did that greed transform itself into… — Alaa Alghamdi Copy Share Image
“Knowledge of the facts of Bob's life and death changes nothing in the world. Our celebrating his life and grieving over his… — Russell Banks Copy Share Image
In my shows, I always try to incorporate music because it's the most natural way to set a tone. So if I… — Kerby Jean-Raymond Copy Share Image
“Greed is not a defect in the gold that is desired but in the man who loves it perversely by falling from… — Augustine of Hippo Copy Share Image
A great swindle of our time is the assumption that science has made religion obsolete. All science has damaged is the story… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Greed presents itself as the longing for both the material and the nonmaterial, especially wanting more than is needed. However, whatever you… — Judith Hanson Lasater Copy Share Image
“I liked his attention. But I also felt like there was something sick and wrong about it. Like it might make me… — Augusten Burroughs Copy Share Image
“A deception arises, sometimes innocently but collaboratively, sometimes with cynical premeditation. Usually the victim is caught up in a powerful emotion -… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Examine the life of the best and most productive men and nations, and ask yourselves whether a tree which is to grow… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Every human being is indeed unhappy as long as he is not free from kashays.” — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
Many communities are already devastated by poverty. Increasingly, that poverty is born of the greed of a global trading system. — Sharan Burrow Copy Share Image
For total greed, rapacity, heartlessness, and irresponsibility there is nothing to match a nation. — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
Unrestrained greed means the ruin of the great woods and the drying up of the sources of the rivers. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“Whoever that came up with the idea of people having to have 'a dream' sure knew how to keep these creatures called… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“Why can a Grisha possess but one amplifier? I will answer this question instead: What is infinite? The universe and the greed… — Leigh Bardugo Copy Share Image
“The earth provides enough to satisfy every person's need, but not every person's greed.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“One day incentives may catch up with inflation, but it will never catch up with our aspirations.” — Amit Kalantri 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
“good is accomplished against the immense black-hole gravity of greed and fear.” — Kim Stanley Robinson Copy Share Image
Altruism is a fine motive, but if you want results, greed works much better. — Henry Spencer 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
I glory, more in the cunning purchase of my wealth than in the glad possession. — Ben Jonson 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
