Greed Quotes

958 Greed quotes by 688 unique authors

Revolt is the mirror in which greed is forced to see itself. — Alice Walker
Where do you draw the line, between love and greed? We never did know, we always wanted more. We want to take it all in,… — Margaret Atwood
Share prices follow the theorem: hope divided by fear minus greed. — Dominic Lawson
When I travel around the world, I see that poor countries sell their grain to the West while their own children starve in their arms.… — Philip Wollen
Men kill for many reasons, they steal but for one-greed. — Sharon Kay Penman
Everybody makes such a big deal today about team play because there's such a scarcity of it. Greed is a reason. You have to understand… — Pete Carril
When you're glad to be alive, good ideas come. The reason good ideas don't come today is because we're all bottled up with greed and… — Ray Manzarek
The inescapable fact is that when we build a society based on greed, selfishness, and ruthless competition, the fruits we can expect to reap are… — Tommy Douglas
Greed probably figures in my intellectual life as well, as I attempt to absorb a massive amount of information with consequent mental indigestion. — Etty Hillesum
Personal greed and egoism are things that cause human beings to forget respect for others and to violate rules that have been established for the… — Mas Oyama
Lust, Greed, Anger, Attachment - These are all paths to hell. — Neem Karoli Baba
Even through you and I are in different boats, you in your boat and we our canoe, we share the same river of life. What… — Oren Lyons
Our expensive welfare state is fueled by the destructive notion that 'greed' is when you want to keep your own money but 'compassion' is when… — Lawrence Reed
Giving with glad and generous hearts has a way of routing out the tough old miser within us. Even the poor need to know that… — Richard J. Foster
Envy and greed starve on a steady diet of thanksgiving. — Billy Graham
What happened under communism - and increasingly, is happening in America, as Joseph Sobran put it: 'Need' now means wanting someone else's money. 'Greed' means… — John Stossel
Yours is a race whose imagination is limited to its own small appetites. Greed, lust, envy - these are the motivating forces of humankind. What… — David Gemmell
Greed: A word commonly used by liberals, low achievers, anti-capitalists and society's losers to denigrate, shame and discredit those who have acquired superior job skills… — Neal Boortz
Beware of compromises. I do not mean that you are to get into antagonism with anybody, but you have to hold on to your own… — Swami Vivekananda
Unless the human race realizes with a passion and reverence beyond thought or words its inter-being with nature, it will destroy in its greed the… — Andrew Harvey
If this really is true, then greed really isn't good, after all. It really isn't the way to maximize the best possible outcome. We really… — Naomi Klein
We have seen that in this country in the last few years, particularly on Wall Street, with the rise of the old human frailty of… — Lee R. Raymond
You can't travel the back roads very long without discovering a multitude of gentle people doing good for others with no expectation of gain or… — Charles Kuralt
If aspects of the person remain undigested-cut off, denied, projected, rejected, indulged, or otherwise unassimilated-they become the points around which the core forces of greed,… — Mark Epstein
Calculating people are contemptable. The reason for this is that calculation deals with loss and gain, and the loss and gain mind never stops. Death… — Yamamoto Tsunetomo

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