“Greed is a way of avoiding making choices: if I have everything I don't have to choose what I want. And choosing… — Adam Phillips Copy Share Image
“Charlotte shrugged. “In the end, greed makes the world go round,” she proclaimed. “Although, revenge isn’t very far behind either.” She chuckled… — Ada Adams Copy Share Image
I think nonviolence and the mediation of conflict by means of respecting civility must be promoted. But being the kind of beings… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
As Earth warriors, we choose to be participants in the ancient battle between good and evil. On our side stand the waters… — Rod Coronado Copy Share Image
A shrewd man has to arrange his interests in order of importance and deal with them one by one; but often our… — François De La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Unless the church is equipping believers to embrace the values and vision of the kingdom of God and turn away from the… — Alan Hirsch Copy Share Image
A compassionate heart still feels anger, greed, jealousy, and other such emotions. But it accepts them for what they are with equanimity,… — Stephen Batchelor Copy Share Image
By the 1980s, businesses had realized that environmental issues had a price tag. Increasingly, they balked. Reflexively, the anticorporate Left pivoted; Earth… — Charles C. Mann Copy Share Image
Meditation may require a lifetime to master, but it will have been a lifetime well spent. ... If you want to judge… — Eknath Easwaran Copy Share Image
The Bible is not a book for the faint of heart -- it is a book full of all the greed and… — Rich Mullins Copy Share Image
Education has now become the chief problem of the world, its one holy cause. The nations that see this will survive, and… — G. Stanley Hall Copy Share Image
“One of the strangest things in life is the false ideas everywhere prevalent regarding the nature of happiness. The general belief seems… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
As I think I told you once before," said I, "it is you who have been, in your greed and cunning, against… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
If a man's aspirations towards a righteous life are serious.. .if he earnestly and sincerely seeks a righteous life, his first act… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“The road of life is paved with daily successes, a great number of them penny and nickle triumphs. Sadly, these little feats… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
“Each of these imperatives has a tendency to degenerate into an excuse for greed and materialism in the absence of the other.… — Greg Forster Copy Share Image
“To dislike something with egoism has been referred to as renunciation (tyaag). Whereas if dislike arises for something whilst in an egoless state, that is… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
Let us treasure up in our soul some of those things which are permanent..., not of those which will forsake us and… — Gregory of Nazianzus Copy Share Image
Fear tends to manifest itself much more quickly than greed, so volatile markets tend to be on the downside. In up markets,… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
“o In bubbles, infatuation with market momentum takes over from any notion of value and fair price, and greed (plus the pain… — Howard Marks Copy Share Image
The Bible and several other self help or enlightenment books cite the Seven Deadly Sins. They are: pride, greed, lust, envy, wrath,… — Dave Mustaine Copy Share Image
“If it were not for certain people's greed for wealth, the highways would be filled with cars powered by the sun, and… — Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse Copy Share Image
Awareness is fire; it burns all that is wrong in you. It burns your ego. It burns your greed, it burns your… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
If greed were not the master of modern man, how could it be that the frenzy of economic activity does not abate… — E. F. Schumacher Copy Share Image
Electrical fire and the fire of greed kindle economies. In that flux, nations become digitized commodities on stock-exchange floors and on investors'… — B. W. Powe Copy Share Image
“If we want truth and justice to rule our global village, there must be no hypocrisy. If there is no truth, then… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
“It is called saiyam [inner control] when anger-pride-deceit-greed are under control. However those who renounce are not called saiyami [those with inner… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
The man Dickens, whom the world at large thought it knew, stood for all the Victorian virtues - probity, kindness, hard work,… — Robert Gottlieb Copy Share Image
“The most chronic heart disease is caused by having greediness in your heart. Go for check ups regularly and learn how to… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
“In my impatience I become convinced that this desire of mine should have been fulfilled yesterday, when it belongs to a tomorrow… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
Instead of hating the people you think are war-makers, hate the appetites and disorder in your own soul, which are the causes… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
If we define an American fascist as one who in case of conflict puts money and power ahead of human beings, then… — Henry A. Wallace Copy Share Image
The Enron scandal calls into question the integrity of the entire capitalist system, which previously we assumed was based on honest, straightforward… — Joel Achenbach Copy Share Image
I'm filled with despair. We live in a pathological culture filled with rage and bitterness and greed. The hate-mongering and racism is… — Alison Hawthorne Deming Copy Share Image
Kindness trumps greed: it asks for sharing. Kindness trumps fear: it calls forth gratefulness and love. Kindness trumps even stupidity, for with… — Marc Estrin Copy Share Image
Right now I am full of greed and vanity, so I cannot live with you like before. But may be we can… — Ai Yazawa Copy Share Image
The rich are like beasts of burden, carrying treasure all day, and at the night of death unladen; they carry to their… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
[I]t was with a good end in mind – that of acquiring the knowledge of good and evil – that Eve allowed… — Moderata Fonte Copy Share Image
“Of all the countries in the world, we Americans have been the greatest destroyers of land of any race of people barbaric… — Timothy Egan Copy Share Image
There are six reasons anyone does anything: Love. Faith. Greed. Boredom. Fear..." he said, ticking them off on his fingers; but he… — Ally Carter Copy Share Image
![“I think nonviolence and the mediation of conflict by means of respecting civility must be promoted. But being the kind of beings we [peoplep] are - wrestling with greed, and wrestling with fears and security, anxieties, wrestling with hatred that's shot through all of us - wars are here to stay.” quote by Cornel West](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/77e/cornel-west-708_anxiety_i-think-nonviolence-and-the-mediation-of_1904871.jpg)
![“It is called saiyam [inner control] when anger-pride-deceit-greed are under control. However those who renounce are not called saiyami [those with inner control]; they are called ‘tyagi’, one who renounces worldly life.” quote by Dada Bhagwan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/67a/dada-bhagwan-31_anger_it-is-called-saiyam-inner-control-when-a_1754690.jpg)
![“[I]t was with a good end in mind – that of acquiring the knowledge of good and evil – that Eve allowed herself to be carried away and eat the forbidden fruit. But Adam was not moved by this desire for knowledge, but simply by greed: he ate it because he heard Eve say it tasted good.” quote by Moderata Fonte](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/580/moderata-fonte-42110_adam_i-t-was-with-a-good-end-in-mind-that-of_2691016.png)
