Greedy Quotes

334 Greedy quotes by 278 unique authors

I've personally demanded that tyrants let their people go. I've tried to feed the hungry, clothe the poor, protect the elderly and infirm, and defend… — Gary Ackerman
When no one's buying your records, it's easy to justify selling a song. But once you start selling records, you can't really justify having two… — Patrick Carney
The English have always been greedy for news of times past, with that mixture of fatalism and melancholy which is part of the national character. — Peter Ackroyd
They say I'm greedy, but I still want more, cause my eyes want to journey. — Snoop Dogg
Fiction is very greedy. It will take all you know and then some. The first novel I tried to write, I was struck by this… — John Updike
Why should people be expected to think about the meaning of life merely because they happen to be ill? That is just the time when… — Ferdinand Mount
The Tort Tax adds to the cost of everything we buy because businesses and manufacturers have to cover themselves and their employees - just in… — Dennis Hastert
You're just a natural beehive, filled with honey to the top. Well, I ain't greedy baby, all I want is all you got. — Elvis Presley
All the seven deadly sins are man's true nature. To be greedy. To be hateful. To have lust. Of course, you have to control them,… — Marilyn Manson
My parents survived the Great Depression and brought me up to live within my means, save some for tomorrow, share and don't be greedy, work… — David Suzuki
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
Our assaults on the ecosystem are so powerful, so numerous, so finely interconnected, that although the damage they do is clear, it is very difficult… — Barry Commoner
We might hope to change the world through better, bigger programs to stop global warming, but global warming will not end unless people become less… — Shane Claiborne
As much as I adore Agatha Christie - and I think people make this claim about murder mysteries in general - it's often a very… — Christopher Bollen
FREE animals of the jungle/air/sea/mountains are called 'wild', 'savage', 'vicious', 'beasts' who defend themselves and their own territories from greedy, ruthless 'brave' men armed to… — Adela Popescu
The greedy man is incontent with a whole world set before him. — Saadi
Commerce is greedy. Ideology is blood-thirsty. — Mason Cooley
Greedy for the property of others, extravagant with his own — Sallust
Of all the vices, avarice is the most generally detested; it is the effect of an avidity common to all men; it is because men… — Claude Adrien Helvetius
Artists have wild desires and a terrible hunger to achieve... Without it they haven't the juice for striving or loving. But desire also can make… — Eric Maisel
John Prescott has made the government look greedy and ridiculous. Labour is seen as the corrupt party. The government has been fulfilling the old rule… — William Rees-Mogg
The animals share with us the privilege of having a soul Alas, what wickedness to swallow flesh into our own flesh, to fatten our greedy… — Pythagoras
Alas, what wickedness to swallow flesh into our own flesh, to fatten our greedy bodies by cramming in other bodies, to have one living creature… — Pythagoras
It's a real enigma why people are so averse to real free market capitalism even now. Here we are, in the century that has seen… — Joseph Sobran
I had no idea how greedy my heart really was. — Carol Rifka Brunt

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