Greed Quotes

958 Greed quotes by 688 unique authors

You have found that you were more secure before you accumulated so much. See what greed has imposed on you: You have filled your house… — Saint Augustine
It is not necessity but abundance which produces greed. — Michel de Montaigne
It is partly to avoid consciousness of greed that we prefer to associate with those who are at least as greedy as we ourselves. Those… — Charles Horton Cooley
Many Christians, though keenly sensitive to the dangers of greed and discontent that come with an economy of continually increasing consumption, nevertheless feel that it… — Joy Davidman
If they survive, today's children will inherit a world that our fathers and grandfathers have ravaged, where the seas are acidic cesspools that the whales… — Mumia Abu-Jamal
No one "discovers" the future. The future is not a discovery. The future is not a destiny. The future is a decision, an intervention. Do… — Leonard Sweet
Money never can be well managed if sought solely through the greed of money for its own sake. In all meanness there is a defect… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
The greedy man is incontent with a whole world set before him. — Saadi
Inflamed by greed, incensed by hate, confused by delusion, overcome by them, obsessed by mind, a man chooses for his own affliction, for others' affliction,… — Gautama Buddha
O painter, take care lest the greed for gain prove a stronger incentive than renown in art, for to gain this renown is a far… — Leonardo da Vinci
The dynamo of our economic system is self-interest which may range from mere petty greed to admirable types of self-expression. — Felix Frankfurter
There are many winds full of anger, and lust and greed. They move the rubbish around, but the solid mountain of our true nature stays… — Unknown Author
The most pitiful human ailment is a birdseed heart. — Wilson Mizner
With various people complaining about "price gouging?... economist Walter Williams has coined a new term: "Tax gouging." But government is never accused of either "greed"… — Thomas Sowell
To act without rapacity, to use knowledge with wisdom, to respect interdependence, to operate without hubris and greed are not simply moral imperatives. They are… — Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth
The covetous man pines in plenty, like Tantalus up to the chin in water, and yet thirsty. — Thomas Adams
One path is greed, the second is curiosity. With one, the journey is to a reward; with the other, the journey is the reward. — Dale Dauten
As long as greed, stupidity and cowardice remain a part of the human condition, there will be a constituency for Democrats. — Jack Kelly
If we got one-tenth of what was promised to us in these acceptance speeches there wouldn't be any inducement to go to heaven. — Will Rogers
...short-sighted men who in their greed and selfishness will, if permitted, rob our country of half its charm by their reckless extermination of all useful… — Theodore Roosevelt
The path of love has many opponents - fear, self-pity, anxiety, hate, lust, greed, avarice - all the usual freinds. — Frederick Lenz
Greed, fear, lust, hate, jealousy, these are part of reality too ... bundles of consciousness wrapped tightly, barbs on which you can injure yourself, volatile… — Frederick Lenz
Purity means lack of hatred, jealousy, fear, greed and lust - the absence of anything that can stain consciousness. — Frederick Lenz
It's sundown on the Union and what's made in the USA, sure was a good idea, until greed got in the way. — Bob Dylan
I feel terrible about corporate greed. Growing up in a household that was a little more humble and didn't put so much emphasis on money… — Chloe Sevigny

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