Greed Quotes

958 Greed quotes by 688 unique authors

I wish to become rich, so that I can instruct the people and glorify honest poverty a little, like those kind hearted, fat, benevolent people… — Mark Twain
People can commend the weather without envy. — William Shenstone
Avarice is a cursed vice: offer a man enough gold, and he will part with his own small hoard of food, however great his hunger. — Lucian
It is not greedy to enjoy a good dinner, any more than it is to enjoy a good concert. But I do think there is… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
The miser is the man who starves himself and everybody else, in order to worship wealth in its dead form, as distinct from its living… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
When we desire or solicit anything, our minds run wholly on the good side or circumstances of it; when it is obtained, our minds run… — Jonathan Swift
What is at the heart of all national problems? It is that we have seen the hand of material interest sometimes about to close upon… — Woodrow Wilson
Greed's worst point is its ingratitude. — Seneca the Younger
The avarice of the miser may be termed the grand sepulchral of all his other passions, as they successively decay. — Charles Caleb Colton
The evil in our desires typically does not lie in what we want, but that we want it too much. — John Calvin
When we look into the human heart we see the lust, the greed, the hate, the pride, the anger, and the jealousies that are so… — Ravi Zacharias
If workers struggle for higher wages, this is hailed as "social gains", if businessmen struggle for higher profits, this is damned as "selfish greed". — Ayn Rand
In the arts of life main invents nothing; but in the arts of death he outdoes Nature herself, and produces by chemistry and machinery all… — George Bernard Shaw
Man has but little heeded the advice of the wise men. He has been - fatefully, if not willingly - less virtuous, less constant, less… — Ralph Bunche
A political convention is after all not a meeting of a corporation's board of directors; it is a fiesta, a carnival, a pig-rooting, horse-snorting, band-playing,… — Norman Mailer
The media have just buried the last yuppie, a pathetic creature who had not heard the news that the great pendulum of public consciousness has… — Barbara Ehrenreich
Let us not forget such words, and all they mean, as hatred, bitterness, and rancor greed, intolerance, bigotry; let us renew our faith and pledge… — Edna St. Vincent Millay
The more our hearts and minds are turned to assisting others less fortunate than we, the more we will avoid the spiritually cankering effects that… — Joe J. Christensen
There will be selfishness and greed and corruption and narrowness and intolerance in the world tomorrow and tomorrow's tomorrow. But pray God we may have… — Harold Stassen
Education has now become the chief problem of the world, its one holy cause. The nations that see this will survive, and those that fail… — G. Stanley Hall
If you make a habit of sincere prayer, your life will be very noticeably and profoundly altered. Prayer stamps with its indelible mark our actions… — Alexis Carrel
Men of vision. Oh, I love the fine names men give each other to hide their greed and lust for adventure. — Unknown Author
Lesson number one: Don't underestimate the other guy's greed. — Robert Loggia
There is no calamity greater than lavish desires. There is no greater guilt than discontent. And there is no greater disaster than greed. — Laozi
Wall Street never changes, the pockets change, the suckers change, the stocks change, but Wall Street never changes, because human nature never changes. — Jesse Lauriston Livermore

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