Greed Quotes

958 Greed quotes by 688 unique authors

The Founders recognized that Government is quite literally a necessary evil, that there must be opposition, between its various branches, and between political parties, for… — David Mamet
Doing nothing for others is the undoing of ourselves. — Horace Mann
The curse of the romantic is a greed for dreams, an intensity of expectation that, in the end, diminishes the reality. — Marya Mannes
But love, like the sun that it is, sets afire and melts everything. what greed and privilege to build up over whole centuries the indignation… — Jose Marti
At the heart of every really good Christmas movie is the threat, I suppose, to Christmas. Something is wrong with Christmas, in all of these… — James McAvoy
We are all born brave, trusting and greedy, and most of us remain greedy. — Mignon McLaughlin
The CD, it should be noted, was born out of greed. It was devised to prop up record sales on the expectation of people replenishing… — John Mellencamp
Money is neither my god nor my devil. It is a form of energy that tends to make us more of who we already are,… — Dan Millman
Capitalism is an organized system to guarantee that greed becomes the primary force of our economic system and allows the few at the top to… — Michael Moore
The motivation for war is simple. The U.S. government started the war with Iraq in order to make it easy for U.S. corporations to do… — Michael Moore
Capitalism is against the things that we say we believe in - democracy, freedom of choice, fairness. It's not about any of those things now.… — Michael Moore
A newspaper is a public trust, and we will suffer as a society without them. It is not the Internet that has killed them. It… — Michael Moore
Greed has been with human beings forever. We have a number of things in our species that you would call 'the dark side,' and greed… — Michael Moore
The Bible and several other self help or enlightenment books cite the Seven Deadly Sins. They are: pride, greed, lust, envy, wrath, sloth, and gluttony.… — Dave Mustaine
The beast for me is greed. Whether you read Dante, Swift, or any of these guys, it always boils down to the same thing: the… — Ben Nicholson
Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people… — P.J. O'Rourke
Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it's only when you… — Barack Obama
We didn't become the most prosperous country in the world just by rewarding greed and recklessness. We didn't come this far by letting the special… — Barack Obama
This society is driven by neurotic speed and force accelerated by greed and frustration of not being able to live up to the image of… — Yoko Ono
It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have everything one wants. — Blaise Pascal
Deregulation created this epidemic of greed which according to the rules of capitalism was OK. Beyond that there was criminal behaviour. There have been no… — Brad Pitt
All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry. — Edgar Allan Poe
There was a time in my life when I thought I had everything - millions of dollars, mansions, cars, nice clothes, beautiful women, and every… — Richard Pryor
An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit. — Pliny the Elder
Greed has taken the whole universe, and nobody is worried about their soul. — Little Richard

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