Greed Quotes

There is a philosophy by which many people live their lives, and it is this: life is a shit sandwich...

Some false representations contravene the law; some do not. The law does not pretend to punish every...

The Master said, “Wealth and honor are things that all people desire, and yet unless they are acquir...

The Master said, “If your conduct is determined solely by considerations of profit you will arouse g...

The Master said, “A true gentleman is one who has set his heart upon the Way. A fellow who is ashame...

The Master said, “The gentleman does not serve as a vessel.”(Analects 2.12)

The Master said, “The gentleman understands what is right, whereas the petty man understands profit....

It is supposed to be true that those who do not know history are condemned to repeat it. I dont beli...

I dont believe knowing can save us. What isconstant in history is greed and foolishness and a love o...

Greed like the love of comfort is a kind of fear.

Blood has an oder faint but distinct, of conceit and modesty, of courage and cowardice, of charity a...

...capitalism satisfied the Christian demand for an institution that channels selfish human desire t...

There is something about wills which brings out the worst side of human nature. People who under ord...

To make a deliberate falsification for personal gain is the last, worst depth to which either schola...

To make a deliberate falsification for personal gain is the last, worst depth to which either schola...

The only way to the top is killing and greed. Okay, I’m kidding. But killing helps.

A house built on greed cannot long endure.

And the so-called 'political process' is a fraud: Our elected officials, like our bureaucratic funct...

The children are innocent until proven guilty. For their sake, not ours, we must soldier on, muddlin...

The ugliest thing in America is greed, the lust for power and domination, the lunatic ideology of pe...

Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell.

...so much attention is paid to the aggressive sins, such as violence and cruelty, and greed with al...

There is nobody in this country who got rich on their own. Nobody. You built a factory out there - g...

It is strange people should be so greedy when they are alone in the world!

Nothing is sufficient for the person who finds sufficiency too little

Every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a business, and turns into a racket.

Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without...

New York City is a great monument to the power of money and greed... a race for rent.

We have always known that heedless self interest was bad morals, we now know that it is bad economic...

Immense wealth, and its lavish expenditure, fill the great house with all that can please the eye, o...

Even the most beautiful scenery is no longer assured of our love after we have lived in it for three...

Here and there on earth there is probably a kind of continuation of love; in which this greedy desir...

… human needs are finite, but human greed is not …

Just as sex is a God-given instinct for the prolongation of the human race, so the desire for proper...

There is no fire like passion, there is no shark like hatred, there is no snare like folly, there is...

We stress humanity, and this is done at considerable cost. We can't have a lot of dramatics that oth...

The angry men know that this golden age (of fossil fuels) has gone; but they cannot find the words f...

Terrible times breed terrible things, my lord.

She never forgets a slight, real or imagined. She takes caution for cowardice and dissent for defian...

The main obstacle to further progress on the resource curse is China, and to a lesser extent India.

Ayn Rand's 'philosophy' is nearly perfect in its immorality, which makes the size of her audience al...

A current pejorative adjective is narcissistic. Generally, a narcissist is anyone better looking tha...

Of all the icy blasts that blow on love, a request for money is the most chilling.

The best client is a scared millionaire.

And what, O Queen, are those things that are dear to a man? Are they not bubbles? Is not ambition bu...

Still another danger is represented by those who, paying lip service to democracy and the common wel...

In an effort to eliminate the possibility of any rival growing up, some monopolists would sacrifice ...

If we define an American fascist as one who in case of conflict puts money and power ahead of human ...

We have no festival, nor procession, nor ceremony, not excepting our cattle-shows and so-called Than...

Do you want to know the cause of war? It is capitalism, greed, the dirty hunger for dollars. Take aw...

No stone was laid upon· another with love or reverence; no street was laid for dance or joy. One thi...

The writer of this legend then recordsIts ghostly application in these words:The image is the Advers...

I disagree. You want to bring back someone that you've lost. You might want money. Maybe you want wo...

All right people, listen up! If you've got a family back home waiting for you or if you just want to...

For avarice begins where poverty ends.

Doing nothing for others is the undoing of ourselves.

he who is greedy is always in want

He who is greedy is always in want.

I am convinced that imprisonment is a way of pretending to solve the problem of crime. It does nothi...

No More Games. No More Bombs. No More Walking. No More Fun. No More Swimming. 67. That is 17 years p...

Oral Roberts is a greed-crazed white-trash lunatic who should have been hung upside down from a tele...

The point is, there is no feasible excuse for what are, for what we have made of ourselves. We have ...

I did NOT have three thousand pairs of shoes, I had one thousand and sixty.

The town is mobbed out with Saturday shoppers looking for Christmas bargains. You can almost breathe...

Until a few months ago we had a code of honor, and even the worst ruffians behaved with decency. You...

We have had enough of the old men and the money-counters!" And people further off took up the cry: "...

There is more in you of good than you know, child of the kindly West. Some courage and some wisdom, ...

If it weren't for greed, intolerance, hate, passion and murder, you would have no works of art, no g...

No one would argue that we owe a debt of gratitude to the Goliath Corporation. They helped us to reb...

We risk all in being too greedy.

Beyond all explanations which a good brain can give, why do we choose the worse and not the better, ...

The transformation of the world is brought about by the transformation of oneself, because the self ...

You have to understand that only the very worst end up here: the ones whose anger made them kill, an...

We are living the American Dream, which is, of course, to benefit from someone else’s misfortune.

Wealth is not without its advantages and the case to the contrary, although it has often been made, ...

Capitalism is the extraordinary belief that the nastiest of men for the nastiest of motives will som...

These temple destroyers, devotees of ravaging commercialism, seem to have a perfect contempt for Nat...

God is not glorified when we keep for ourselves (no matter how thankfully) what we ought to be using...

God is not glorified when we keep for ourselves (no matter how thankfully) what we ought to be using...

God is not glorified when we keep for ourselves (no matter how thankfully) what we ought to be using...

God is not glorified when we keep for ourselves (no matter how thankfully) what we ought to be using...

There is no wealth but life.

Then the hard, dry Spaniards came exploring through, greedy and realistic, and their greed was for g...

And the great owners, who had become through the might of their holdings both more and less than men

Well, we all got to make a livin'.""Yeah," Tom said. "On'y I wisht they was some way to make her 'th...

We're sorry. It's not us. It's the monster. The bank isn't a man. The bank isn't like a man.Yes, but...

We've had enough." He took back the report and jammed it under his arm. "We've had a bellyful, in fa...

Take taking from those that give & nobody anywhere will need any more such gifts.

That same night, I wrote my first short story. It took me thirty minutes. It was a dark little tale ...

In China the egalitarian movement came not just from Zhu's vision, but also the Taoist ideas of bala...

So the unwanting soulsees what's hidden,and the ever-wanting soulsees only what it wants.

Manifest plainness,Embrace simplicity,Reduce selfishness,Have few desires.

The worker picked up Pakhom’s spade, dug a grave, and buried him - six feet from head to heel, exact...

Well, there are people who eat the earth and eat all the people on it like in the Bible with the loc...

But men are so full of greed today, they'll sell anything for a little piece of money.

They listen to the music of idiots and amuse themselves with the sordid miseries of their businesses...

It does seem as if the more one gets the more one wants

Nonetheless, many people, and especially intellectuals, passionately loathe capitalism. As they see ...

Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed.

Last night I watched the weather channel, as is my habit. Elsewhere in the world there are floods: r...