Quotes about Greed

Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction. Votes: 6

Greed and globalization aren't just America's fault. Votes: 4

Greed is so destructive. It destroys everything. Votes: 4

Greed is the lack of confidence of one's own ability to create. Votes: 4

Leadership is a privilege to better the lives of others. It is not an opportunity to satisfy personal greed. Votes: 4

Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works. Greed clarifies and cuts through to the essence of the evolutionary spirit. Votes: 4

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 movies. In 'The Polar Express,' there's a kid that doesn't really believe, and that's the threat to Christmas. In 'Santa Claus: The Movie,' jealousy and greed are threatening to overrun his Christmas. Votes: 4

Greed can overtake smart. Votes: 3

Greed is permanent slavery Votes: 3

Greed has no boundaries Votes: 3

Greed kills us all. Votes: 3

Greed puts out the sun. Votes: 3

Greed has poisoned men's souls Votes: 3

Greed is too flimsy to flawed Votes: 3

Greed is normally balanced by fear. Votes: 3

Greed's worst point is its ingratitude. Votes: 3

Greed is merely a species of nearsightedness. Votes: 3

Greed:Your own lies make you sick. Votes: 3

Greed is really the religion of vulgarity. Votes: 3

Greed is costly. Assembled fortunes are lost. Votes: 3

Greed is gross. Greed is vile. Greed sucks. Votes: 3

Greed is an integral quality of a strong player. Votes: 3

Remember: Greed is a bad color on a person. Votes: 3

Greed is good. Sex is easy. Youth is forever Votes: 3

Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Votes: 3

Greed is not a financial issue. It's a heart issue. Votes: 3

Politics may come and go, but Greed goes on forever. Votes: 3

Greed, like the love of comfort, is a kind of fear. Votes: 3

Greed is the assumption that it is all for my consumption. Votes: 3

Greed is but a word jealous men inflict upon the ambitious. Votes: 3

Lust, Greed, Anger, Attachment - These are all paths to hell. Votes: 3

Greed and selfishness do seem to be central motivators of mankind. Votes: 3

Greed is a deprivation of abundance, a hoarding, a constriction of energy. Votes: 3

Mr. Greed, why do you have to own everything that you see? Votes: 3

Greed is the inventor of injustice as well as the current enforcer. Votes: 3

The only engine big enough to impact Mother Nature is Father Greed. Votes: 3

Greed-for lack of a better word-is good. Greed is right. Greed works. Votes: 3

Greed has been severely underestimated and denigrated - unfairly so, in my opinion. Votes: 3

Greed has taken the whole universe, and nobody is worried about their soul. Votes: 3

Greed has replaced religion as the national religion, and with greed comes envy. Votes: 3

I fear just one thing : Money! Greed was what motivated Judas to sell Jesus Votes: 3

Greed often finds more pleasure in taking from others than in giving to itself. Votes: 3

Greed makes man blind and foolish, and makes him an easy prey for death. Votes: 3

Someone reminded me I once said, 'Greed is good.' Now it seems it's legal. Votes: 3

Greed is good! Greed is right! Greed works! Greed will save the U.S.A.! Votes: 3

Capitalism: Nothing so mean could be right. Greed is the ugliest of the capital sins. Votes: 3

I was Amazement--I was Desire--I was Ecstasy and Rapture and the slightest bit of Greed. Votes: 3

I was Amazement--I was Desire--I was Ecstasy and Rapture and the slightest bit of Greed." Votes: 3

Greed is at the bottom of most of the wrong-doing with which government has to deal. Votes: 3

Greed is a fat demon with a small mouth and whatever you feed it is never enough. Votes: 3

Greed has poisoned men's souls, has barricaded the world with hate; has goose-stepped us into misery and bloodshed. Votes: 3

You're not a road comic till you've watched Real Sex and American Greed alone in your hotel room. Votes: 3

Greed squeezes your dreams into a portable size, so that failure can easily carry them to dump somewhere. Votes: 3

Greed harms you: generosity helps you. This is why it has been said: 'Greed is the mother of incapacity'. Votes: 3

The ignorant mind, with its infinite afflictions, passions, and evils, is rooted in the three poisons. Greed, anger, and delusion. Votes: 3

Greed stains our culture, soaks our sensibilities and has replaced grace as a sign of our intimacy with the divine. Votes: 3

Greed, it ain't going anywhere. They should have that in a big billboard across Times Square. Without people you're nothing Votes: 3

Greed is a basic part of animal nature. Being against it is like being against breathing or eating. It means nothing. Votes: 3

Greed, the desire to incorporate, is magnified and fed back to produce the pretan realms, just as hate creates the hells. Votes: 3

Greed is good to most economists. It's greed that makes people work harder, be more productive and helps the economy grow. Votes: 3

Need' now means wanting someone else's money. 'Greed' means wanting to keep your own. 'Compassion' is when a politician arranges the transfer. Votes: 3

Greed has driven the world crazy. And I think I'm lucky that I have a place over here that I can call home. Votes: 3

Greed probably figures in my intellectual life as well, as I attempt to absorb a massive amount of information with consequent mental indigestion. Votes: 3

As to the Seven Deadly Sins, I deplore Pride, Wrath, Lust, Envy and Greed. Gluttony and Sloth I pretty much plan my day around. Votes: 3

Greed is an imperfection that defiles the mind; hate is an imperfection that defiles the mind; delusion is an imperfection that defiles the mind. Votes: 3

Greedhas no satiation point, since its consummation does not fill the inner emptiness, boredom, loneliness, and depression it is meant to overcome. Votes: 3

Greed is a sin against God, just as all mortal sins, in as much as man condemns things eternal for the sake of temporal things, Votes: 3

Greed is mistaken nobility. Instead of robbing all the pain and hardship from people's lives and rescuing them from danger, greed robs provisions from providers. Votes: 3

Greed, accident, or malice may have harmful results, but, barring something truly apocalyptic, a resilient system can absorb such results without its overall health being threatened. Votes: 3

Greed is supported by an endless cast of what-ifs. Greedy people can never have enough to satisfy the need they feel in light of every conceivable eventuality. Votes: 3

Greed may not be good, but it's not so bad either. You humans think greed is just for money or power, but everyone wants something they can't have. Votes: 3

Greed (as Ling): You humans always get all "holier-than-thou" when it comes to this stuff... I really don't get you. Edward: It's called having integrity. You should try it sometime Votes: 3

Greed can be very dangerous because you sacrifice your soul for the sake of something material, and then you start sacrificing people in order to keep that which is material. Votes: 3

The man who sailed around his soul From East to West, from pole to pole With ego as his drunken captain Greed, the mutineer, had trapped all reason in the hold Votes: 3

Many people and companies only have one goal: money, money, and more money. Greed is ok when you let others profit from it, but greed for oneself is bad, it makes you ill. Votes: 3

Poverty wants much; but avarice, everything. Votes: 2

For greed all nature is too little. Votes: 2

He who is greedy is always in want. Votes: 2

Purposeless activity may be a phase of death. Votes: 2

Lust and greed are more gullible than innocence. Votes: 2

Nothing makes us more vulnerable than loneliness except greed. Votes: 2

The only effective answer to organized greed is organized labor. Votes: 2

You show me a capitalist, and I'll show you a bloodsucker. Votes: 2

Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed. Votes: 2

There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it. Votes: 2

I think greed is healthy. You can be greedy and still feel good about yourself. Votes: 2

All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry. Votes: 2

There is a sufficiency in the world for man's need but not for man's greed. Votes: 2

Men hate the individual whom they call avaricious only because nothing can be gained from him. Votes: 2

It is greed to do all the talking but not to want to listen at all. Votes: 2

He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose. Votes: 2

You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need. Votes: 2

Do not follow vain desires; for verily he who prospers is preserved from lust, greed and anger. Votes: 2

New York City is a great monument to the power of money and greed... a race for rent. Votes: 2

If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world. Votes: 2

Calm self-confidence is as far from conceit as the desire to earn a decent living is remote from greed. Votes: 2

Reduce the complexity of life by eliminating the needless wants of life, and the labors of life reduce themselves. Votes: 2

If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it. Votes: 2

Fear and greed are potent motivators. When both of these forces push in the same direction, virtually no human being can resist. Votes: 2

We can't allow any war for imperialism or greed to be fought in our names. This is what we need to keep fighting for. Votes: 2

Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind. Votes: 2

There are a lot of people who are doing wonderful things, quietly, with no motive of greed, or hostility toward other people, or delusions of superiority. Votes: 2

We are in danger of destroying ourselves by our greed and stupidity. We cannot remain looking inwards at ourselves on a small and increasingly polluted and overcrowded planet. Votes: 2

The writer's greed is appalling. He wants, or seems to want, everything and practically everybody, in another sense, and at the same time, he needs no one at all. Votes: 2

Let us wage a moral and political war against the billionaires and corporate leaders, on Wall Street and elsewhere, whose policies and greed are destroying the middle class of America. Votes: 2

The 20th century has been marked by cynicism, selfishness, greed, and the desire to please, all without changing the status quo. In the 21st century, we must resurrect solidarity and compassion. Votes: 2

You say, 'If I had a little more, I should be very satisfied.' You make a mistake. If you are not content with what you have, you would not be satisfied if it were doubled. Votes: 2

In our daily life, we encounter people who are angry, deceitful, intent only on satisfying their own needs. There is so much anger, distrust, greed, and pettiness that we are losing our capacity to work well together. Votes: 2

If we weren't born with anti-social passions - narcissism, envy, lust, meanness, greed, hunger for power, just to name the more obvious - why the need for so many laws, whether religious or secular, that govern behavior? Votes: 2

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 for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power. Votes: 2

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. That pretty much covers everything that we do, that is sinful... or fun for that matter. Votes: 2

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 men and woman we have created for ourselves; the image has nothing to do with the reality of people. Votes: 2

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 interests run wild. We didn't do it just by gambling and chasing paper profits on Wall Street. We built this country by making things, by producing goods we could sell. Votes: 2

When the Internet first came into public use, it was hailed as a liberation from conformity, a floating world ruled by passion, creativity, innovation and freedom of information. When it was hijacked first by advertising and then by commerce, it seemed like it had been fully co-opted and brought into line with human greed and ambition. Votes: 2

The 2008 financial crisis is usually attributed to vampire squid greed. There was certainly a lot of that. But it was also just as likely to have been caused by the chaos of process created by those big, sexy bank mergers when, in the name of 'economies of scale,' critical members of the trust and responsibility chain were cavalierly eliminated. Votes: 2

A greedy father has thieves for children Votes: 1

Hell has three gates: lust, anger, and greed Votes: 1

Curst greed of gold, what crimes thy tyrant power has caused Votes: 1

It is greed to do all the talking but not to want to listen at all Votes: 1

Take heed never take advantage of the things you need never let yourself be overcome by greed walk the straight and narrow and you shall succeed Votes: 1

We tend to forget that happiness doesn't come as a result of getting something we don't have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have Votes: 1

Ambition is greed without makeup. Votes: 0

Organized greed always defeats disorganized democracy. Votes: 0

Callous greed grows pious very fast. Votes: 0

Fraud is the daughter of greed. Votes: 0

The world is fed by greed. Votes: 0

It means zero to be against greed. Votes: 0

For greed, all nature is too little. Votes: 0

The greed for fruit misses the flower. Votes: 0

There is no greater misfortune than greed. Votes: 0

Ignorance, hatred and greed are killing nature. Votes: 0

Selfishness creates greed and greed destroys the soul. Votes: 0

What kind of society isn't structured on greed? Votes: 0

I am guilty of stupidity, arrogance, and greed. Votes: 0

Fear and greed tend to affect one's judgement. Votes: 0

White folks' greed runs a world in need. Votes: 0

A house built on greed cannot long endure. Votes: 0

Today is much more an age of greed Votes: 0

Wealth and greed are the roots of all evils Votes: 0

Lesson number one: Don't underestimate the other guy's greed. Votes: 0

There are three all-powerful evils: lust, anger and greed. Votes: 0

Remember that greed includes greed for being not greedy. Votes: 0

It is not necessity but abundance which produces greed. Votes: 0

Atlantis was destroyed by the greed of its inhabitants. Votes: 0

The twin killers of success are impatience and greed. Votes: 0

If you are extremely generous, greed will run away. Votes: 0

Giving is a proof that you have conquered greed. Votes: 0

What is infinite? The universe and the greed of men. Votes: 0

Microsoft is not about greed. It's about innovation and fairness. Votes: 0

I can see the greed and envy in your eyes. Votes: 0

Three great forces rule the world: stupidity, fear and greed. Votes: 0

The currency of real networking is not greed but generosity. Votes: 0

We need to learn how to separate need from greed. Votes: 0

Men kill for many reasons, they steal but for one-greed. Votes: 0

Don’t let the dark clouds of greed confuse you Votes: 0

Envy and greed starve on a steady diet of thanksgiving. Votes: 0

It’s not greed that drives the world, but envy. Votes: 0

The virtues of free enterprise can become distorted by greed & delusion. Votes: 0

Selfishness and greed, individual or national, cause most of our troubles. Votes: 0

People's lives are forever controlled by two emotions: fear and greed. Votes: 0

The privileged have regularly invited their own destruction with their greed. Votes: 0

The powerful have no monopoly on greed, hatred, fear, or ignorance. Votes: 0

Two evils, greed and faction are the destruction of all justice. Votes: 0

Share prices follow the theorem: hope divided by fear minus greed. Votes: 0

Sex, greed, debauchery - I love it. Brian Azzarello is brilliant. Votes: 0

Curst greed of gold, what crimes thy tyrant power has caused. Votes: 0

Throw away profit and greed, and there won't be any thieves. Votes: 0

Targets are achieved sooner out of need, than out of greed. Votes: 0

Patience leads to power; but eagerness in greed leads to loss. Votes: 0

The top two ways to destroy success are greed and impatience Votes: 0

Someone who wants to succeed has to overcome his own greed first Votes: 0

Classism and greed are making insignificant all the other kinds of isms. Votes: 0

Corporate greed is killing America, and that's what we battling at Boeing. Votes: 0

Nothing destroys one's respect in the hearts of others more than greed. Votes: 0

It's impossible to translate Wall Street greed into one or two demands. Votes: 0

Revolt is the mirror in which greed is forced to see itself. Votes: 0

America needs young people to be inspired to choose sacrifice over greed. Votes: 0

A victim of your own greed..wallowing in the muck of avarice. Votes: 0

Friendship, obligation and greed are not good enough reasons to write anything. Votes: 0

Gambling operates under the premise that greed can be satisfied by luck. Votes: 0

Desire for power is a kind of greed indulged by the unfulfilled Votes: 0

Through the machineries of greed, pettiness, and the abuse of power, love occurs. Votes: 0

I contemplated my greed for peace. And I did not seek tranquillity anymore. Votes: 0

The difference between greed and goals is what you are prepared to handle... Votes: 0

Money is therefore not only the object but also the fountainhead of greed. Votes: 0

Virtually all organisations known to you work largely by means of your greed. Votes: 0

There's enough on this planet for everyone's needs but not for everyone's greed. Votes: 0

The only thing that stands between corporate greed and poverty is the union. Votes: 0

There is nothing inherently wrong with greed as a human motivator-greed motivating evolution. Votes: 0

The earth has everything for all human needs, but nothing for his greed. Votes: 0

It's all about greed and money and it's the driving force in Hollywood. Votes: 0

If you do good because you expect to be rewarded, it is greed. Votes: 0

The market is a very emotional place that appeals to fear and greed. Votes: 0

The only two things you can truly depend upon are gravity and greed. Votes: 0

Be fearful when there is greed and be greedy when there is fear. Votes: 0

Cursed greed of gold, what crimes thy tyrant power has caused. -- Virgil Votes: 0

If the heart is fed by love, the greed for pleasure would disappear. Votes: 0

The earth has enough resources for our need, but not for our greed. Votes: 0

Lust, anger, attachment, greed, over pride be,Jealousy, selfishness, injustice, cruelty, ego truly;- 153 - Votes: 0

There are 6 reasons that a person does anything: Love, faith, greed, boredom, fear... revenge. Votes: 0

Ignorance, poverty, and greed must disappear so that light can prevail in all places. Votes: 0

For total greed, rapacity, heartlessness, and irresponsibility there is nothing to match a nation. Votes: 0

We're all basically made of the same stuff: generosity and selfishness, goodness and greed. Votes: 0

In the race of men is much greed and envy; but of truth, little. Votes: 0

Spirituality for the most part is a mask worn by idleness, arrogance and greed. Votes: 0

From the first day to this, sheer greed was the driving spirit of civilization. Votes: 0

Only those blinded by greed would refuse to let a friend make a copy. Votes: 0

Fifa cannot sit by and see greed rule the football world. Nor shall we. Votes: 0

This America has been the country of greed rather than the country of need. Votes: 0

In these times gain is not only a matter of greed, but of ambition. Votes: 0

What can defeat greed, technological superiority, and legal lawlessness ... is discipline, consciousness, and unity. Votes: 0

The essence of good advertising is not to inspire hope, but to create greed. Votes: 0

Altruism is a fine motive, but if you want results, greed works much better. Votes: 0

Long live gravity! Long live stupidity, error, and greed in the palaces of fantasy capitalism! Votes: 0

Fate might forgive greed, or gluttony, or even bloodlust, but it never ignores being ignored. Votes: 0

Human beings are very complex creatures. This desire, this greed, this love is very complex. Votes: 0

It's not competition and greed that makes the world go around, it's cooperating and caring Votes: 0

Republicans stand for raw, unbridled evil and greed and ignorance smothered in balloons and ribbons. Votes: 0

Spinning yarns is a protection against the nuttiness... the greed, the hate all around us. Votes: 0

The easiest way to combat greed is by recognizing the value of contentment and simplicity. Votes: 0

If there was a university degree for greed, you cunts would all get first-class honours. Votes: 0

Foolish people are never harmless. Stupidity accounts for as many crimes as anger and greed. Votes: 0

Jesus reserved his hardest words for the hidden sins of hypocrisy, pride, greed and legalism. Votes: 0

In order to stave off covetouness, greed, and spite, citizens world over must be educated. Votes: 0

Sufficient to say, greed is a deadly deed. You shall not covet your neighbor's goods. Votes: 0

The mark of genius is an incessant activity of mind. Genius is a spiritual greed. Votes: 0

If your desire for 'good' is based on greed, it is not good, but greed. Votes: 0

It's our greed to extract more and more from good that turns it into evil. Votes: 0

An intriguing paradox of the 1990s is that it isn't called a decade of greed. Votes: 0

And their greed was for gold or God. They collected souls as they collected jewels. Votes: 0

There is no force more potent in the modern world than stupidity fueled by greed. Votes: 0

Responsible people work, earn, save, invest, make things better for self & family. Lefties call that "greed." Votes: 0

One of the key problems of the business world is that greed has become culturally acceptable. Votes: 0

The role of government is to create responsible greed to keep boundaries around what people do. Votes: 0

War, money and greed that is the modern heinous Trinity, and they are inseparable these days. Votes: 0

If I give $1,000 dollars I deserve to get back $100,000 because I am just, that's not greed! Votes: 0

You want Paradise, you gotta build it on war, on blood, on envy and naked greed. Votes: 0

Time! Joyless emblem of the greed of millions, robber of the best which earth can give. Votes: 0

When you cast away all your greed and fixation in adversity, you can find unexpected strength. Votes: 0

Man is oftentimes weak-minded enough to be caught in the snare of greed and honeyed words. Votes: 0

I think most people are very, very much motivated by sex - greed, sex, and hunger. Votes: 0

The only way to the top is killing and greed. Okay, I'm kidding. But killing helps. Votes: 0

The age of selfishness and greed is over. The age of kindness and generosity is underway. Votes: 0

Nature can provide for the needs of people; [she] can't provide for the greed of people. Votes: 0

Riots born out of political issues aren't the same as those born out of personal greed. Votes: 0

Clarity and perseverance are difficult in American society because the basis of capitalism is greed and dissatisfaction. Votes: 0

The law has been perverted through the influence of two very different causes-naked greed and misconceived philanthropy. Votes: 0

Political corruption, social greed, and Americanized quasi-socialism can ruin even the most wonderful places. California proved that. Votes: 0

...people of old deemed freedom from greed precious, and this is how they got beyond the world. Votes: 0

Love of power, operating through greed and through personal ambition, was the cause of all these evils. Votes: 0

We forget the nature of true power. The power within is abundance. The power without is greed. Votes: 0

Buddhism talks about the possibility of transforming greed, hatred, and delusion. But sometimes need turns into greed. Votes: 0

No one is born with greed, prejudice, bigotry, patriotism and hatred; these are all learned behavior patterns. Votes: 0

You have to remove your human sentiment when it comes to greed and the accumulation of wealth. Votes: 0

In a society governed passively by free markets and free elections, organized greed always defeats disorganized democracy. Votes: 0

In a society governed passively by free markets and free elections, organized greed always defeats disorganized democracy." Votes: 0

Maneater' is about N.Y.C. in the '80s. It's about greed, avarice, and spoiled riches. Votes: 0

There was a time when our greed had not yet surpassed our imaginations as our greatest asset. Votes: 0

The only way to be content in life is to make sure your NEED don't become GREED. Votes: 0

I don't like greed, I don't like ignorance. I really don't like anger. But I love love. Votes: 0

To justify and extol human greed and egotism is to my mind not only immoral, but evil. Votes: 0

To get rid of greed, you should try to do some sort of a collective social work. Votes: 0

When a man becomes old, his greed becomes young: sleep grows heavy at the time of morning. Votes: 0

I think there's just too much greed in the world today [and] that's why we have problems. Votes: 0

... not doing what we love in the name of greed is very poor management of our lives. Votes: 0

But men are so full of greed today, they'll sell anything for a little piece of money. Votes: 0

We all seem to be about aggression and greed. It's a massive pressure that affects us all. Votes: 0

We've been raised to compete, to want more! More! More! It's a way of life. It's about greed. Votes: 0

Life is easy, life is delightful. It's only hard on your illusions, your ambitions, your greed, your cravings. Votes: 0

Love of the simple is all that I need, I've no time for schism or lovers of greed. Votes: 0

There are things about some professional athletes that I cannot stand-the pretense, the egos, the pomposity, the greed. Votes: 0

Free markets and capitalism are predicated upon the definition of greed as altruistic in economics".~R. Alan Woods [2012] Votes: 0

Become more watchful and anger will be less and greed will be less and jealousy will be less. Votes: 0

What most people call "chaos" is actually incredibly predictable and maddeningly boring - greed, close-mindedness, warring over power. Votes: 0

The difference between greed and ambition is a greedy person desires things he isn't prepared to work for. Votes: 0

If everybody's behavior can be explained by simple stupidity and greed, there's no point in assuming a conspiracy. Votes: 0

If we do not cling to riches, selfishness or greed-then I believe we are getting closer to God. Votes: 0

Animals are neither gods nor fiends, but men in their way without the lust and greed of man. Votes: 0

There is enough for the need of everyone in this world, but not for the greed of everyone. Votes: 0

People who are tired of K Street corruption and Wall Street greed are ready for Main Street Values. Votes: 0

As the nation at last confronts global warming, it is no time for denial, greed, cynicism or pessimism. Votes: 0

I think we need to take on the greed of the billionaire class, a disastrous campaign finance system. Votes: 0

We must learn to separate need from greed...We must not allow our yearnings to exceed our earnings. Votes: 0

Unrestrained greed means the ruin of the great woods and the drying up of the sources of the rivers. Votes: 0

The greed and envy of the nonproducer is insatiable, so that eventually nothing short of 100% taxation will appease him. Votes: 0

I may say that I think greed about poetry is the only permissible greed - it is, indeed, unavoidable. Votes: 0

The greed of the billionaire class has got to end and we are going to end it for them. Votes: 0

Purity means lack of hatred, jealousy, fear, greed and lust - the absence of anything that can stain consciousness. Votes: 0

Wall Street is broken for sure because it succumbed to greed and corruption and pure speculation with no values. Votes: 0

No great advancement has ever been kept at bay because of ideology, nor greed. Eventually progress moves us forward. Votes: 0

The discovery of America was the occasion of the greatest outburst of cruelty and reckless greed known in history. Votes: 0

Fear, greed and hope have destroyed more portfolio value than any recession or depression we have ever been through. Votes: 0

God can rid your heart of greed, but it's your responsibility to remove yourself from situations that promote greediness. Votes: 0

The everyday kindness of the back roads more than makes up for the acts of greed in the headlines. Votes: 0

I just want people to see what I deem as a war for no reason, but only for greed. Votes: 0

Fear and greed are probably the worst emotions to have in connection with the purchase and sale of stocks. Votes: 0

From the Zen view all beings are in the grip of the three poisons, greed, anger and delusion (ignorance). Votes: 0

Spirituality is ultimate greed. You don't just want a piece of creation - you want the source of creation. Votes: 0

When the hatred stops will the love begin? When there is no more greed will there then be peace? Votes: 0

One of the fastest ways to dispel greed is for a person to realize how blessed he already is. Votes: 0

The fact that people will be full of greed, fear, or folly is predictable. The sequence is not predictable. Votes: 0

The world is big enough to satisfy everyones needs, but will always be too small to satisfy everyones greed Votes: 0

Ambition is at the very core of success and extraordinary achievement. Unlike greed, it's a powerful, creative and constructive force. Votes: 0

Nothing, not love, not greed, not passion or hatred, is stronger than a writer's need to change another writer's copy. Votes: 0

The dynamo of our economic system is self-interest which may range from mere petty greed to admirable types of self-expression. Votes: 0

There are sufficient resources on this planet to answer the needs of all, but not enough to satisfy everyone's greed. Votes: 0

While neurological studies have tried to identify components responsible for fear and greed, the impact on finance is less clear. Votes: 0

The saving of labour of the individual should be the object and honest humanitarian considerations, and not greed, the motive. Votes: 0

TARIFF, n. A scale of taxes on imports, designed to protect the domestic producer against the greed of his consumer. Votes: 0

Whenever success and fame override our senses with greed, arrogance and delusion; it is a time to pause and reflect. Votes: 0

If parasitism, favoritism, corruption, and greed for the unearned did not exist, a mixed economy would bring them into existence. Votes: 0

Politicians never accuse you of 'greed' for wanting other people's money - only for wanting to keep your own money. Votes: 0

The silence of the world could not rein back it's greed. Not any longer. Not when it had virtually won. Votes: 0

The path of love has many opponents - fear, self-pity, anxiety, hate, lust, greed, avarice - all the usual freinds. Votes: 0

Take care to guard against all greed, for though one may be rich, one's life does not consist of possessions. Votes: 0

But there's got to be an opening somewhere here in front of me. Through this maze of ugliness and greed. Votes: 0

...unless the exchange be in love and kindly justice, it will but lead some to greed and others to hunger. Votes: 0

One is never wholly conscious of the greed hidden in one's heart until one hears the sweet sound of silver. Votes: 0

Oh, the jealousy, the greed is the unraveling. It's the unraveling and it undoes all the joy that could be. . Votes: 0

You can't take anything with you. So I don't understand this whole psychotic area of greed, I don't get it... Votes: 0

I write because I want more than one life; I insist on a wider selection. It's greed, plain and simple. Votes: 0

Elevation of today's generation, if I can make them listen. Prisons ain't what we need, no longer stuck in greed. Votes: 0

The best parenting strives to educate children in how to live -- enthusiastically, compassionately, without greed, striving for a better world. Votes: 0

Failure comes from ego, greed, envy, fear, imitation. I have success not because I am smart, but because I am rational. Votes: 0

Desire is storm, greed is whirlpool, pride is precipice, attachment is avalanche, ego is volcano. Discard desire and you are liberated. Votes: 0

I believe the vulpine greed of the corporate world is cut from the very same cloth as the tyrant of history. Votes: 0

Ideology that believes government is bad, and that public institutions and places are not valuable, is as destructive as corporate greed. Votes: 0

As long as greed, stupidity and cowardice remain a part of the human condition, there will be a constituency for Democrats. Votes: 0

Men of vision. Oh, I love the fine names men give each other to hide their greed and lust for adventure. Votes: 0

People always should know better. People don't get - they don't get smarter about things that get as basic as greed. Votes: 0

Jesus warns people far more often about greed than about sex, yet almost no one thinks they are guilty of it. Votes: 0

I vote far-left. I am frequently angered by corporate greed and think education ought to be free and teachers paid well. Votes: 0

If you love peace, then hate injustice, hate tyranny, hate greed � but hate these things in yourself, not in another. Votes: 0

It was not curiosity that killed the goose who laid the golden egg, but an insatiable greed that devoured common sense. Votes: 0

Happiness can only be achieved by looking inward & learning to enjoy whatever life has and this requires transforming greed into gratitude. Votes: 0

I believe in the sun. In the tangle of human failures of fear, greed and forgetfulness, the sun gives me clarity. Votes: 0

No thank you to all the bustas, cowards, and FAKE HOMIES who showed me the depths of jealousy, envy and greed. Votes: 0

Happiness can only be achieved by looking inward & learning to enjoy whatever life has and this requires transforming greed into gratitude. Votes: 0

The curse of the romantic is a greed for dreams, an intensity of expectation that, in the end, diminishes the reality. Votes: 0

Virtually all organisations known to you work largely by means of your greed. They attract you because... they appeal to your greed. Votes: 0

How shrunk, how dwindled, in our times Creation's mighty seed - For Man has broke the Fellowship With murder, lust, and greed. Votes: 0

Looking so cool, his greed is hard to conceal, he's fresh out of law school, you gave him a license to steal. Votes: 0

Cash is always the deciding factor in such matters of moral politics; nothing ever gets done unless motivated by commerce or greed. Votes: 0

It's sundown on the Union and what's made in the USA, sure was a good idea, until greed got in the way. Votes: 0

You can see it in terms of the obsession on Wall Street with not just profits but greed, more profit, more profit. Votes: 0

If you eat junk, you look like junk. People say, 'It's not my fault, it's my glands.' It's not; it's greed! Votes: 0

The human heart is greedy; it will use religion, color, or any other excuse to justify its greed. Blame the human heart. Votes: 0

The practice of gratitude is incompatible with negative emotions and may actually diminish or deter such feelings as anger, bitterness, and greed. Votes: 0

Impatience is not the least of your faults, Malik, it is a kind of greed and someday it may see you undone. Votes: 0

Even in a time of elephantine vanity and greed, one never has to look far to see the campfires of gentle people. Votes: 0

He was seized and dragged off to King Philip, and being asked who he was, replied, "A spy upon your insatiable greed . Votes: 0

There are sufficient resources in the world for the needs of everybody, but not enough for the greed of even a significant minority. Votes: 0

The Enron scandal calls into question the integrity of the entire capitalist system, which previously we assumed was based on honest, straightforward greed. Votes: 0

The banking collapse was caused, more than anything, by bad government policy and the total failure of bad regulation, rather than by greed. Votes: 0

Baseball and cricket are beautiful and highly stylized medieval war substitutes, chess made flesh, a mixture of proud chivalry and base-in both senses-greed. Votes: 0

Patriarchy is connected to greed, a symptom of a larger force that can only be dispelled through kindness and love. It's basic Buddhism. Votes: 0

The opposite of corporate greed is personal generosity. Government policies that enable the former and prevent the latter are both worthy of protest. Votes: 0

There is no calamity greater than lavish desires. There is no greater guilt than discontent. And there is no greater disaster than greed. Votes: 0

If civilization is going to survive, business and policy-makers must move on, to find within themselves more developed emotions than fear or greed. Votes: 0

We found out that you can't pass on acquired things like bigotry, prejudice, greed. That's all learned in your culture or your sub-culture Votes: 0

My teacher said once that every man faces seven enemies in his lifetime. Sickness, hunger, betrayal, envy, greed, old age, and then death... Votes: 0

I like to think that my arrogance, impetuosity, impatience, selfishness and greed are the qualities that make me the lovable chap I am. Votes: 0

The business of business should not be about money. It should be about responsibility. It should be about public good, not private greed Votes: 0

What our country deserves from everyone who enjoys its fruits and freedoms is a little more gratitude - and a lot less greed. Votes: 0

As consumers we are incredibly discerning, we sense where has been great care in the design, and when there is cynicism and greed. Votes: 0

It didn´t occur to me until later that there´s another truth, very simple: greed in a good cause is still greed. Votes: 0

The life of sensation is the life of greed; it requires more and more. The life of the spirit requires less and less. Votes: 0

In the 24th century there will be no hunger, there will be no greed, and all the children will know how to read. Votes: 0

Social networks do best when they tap into one of the seven deadly sins. Facebook is ego. Zynga is sloth. LinkedIn is greed. Votes: 0

Make Money a CENTRAL priority. This has nothing to do with greed and consumption and everything to do with life force and power. Votes: 0

The main source of our wealth is goodness. The affections and the generous qualities that God admires in a world full of greed. Votes: 0

If you don't work yourself up into a fever of greed and covetousness in an art museum, you're just not doing the job. Votes: 0

John will never send a boy or girl in a uniform anywhere in the world because of our need and greed for oil. Votes: 0

IF YOU WOULD BE FREE OF GREED, FIRST YOU HAVE TO LEAVE EGOTISM BEHIND. THE BEST MENTAL EXERCISE FOR RELINQUISHING EGOTISM IS CONTEMPLATING IMPERMANENCE. Votes: 0

Ambition and thirst for power have a part but greed and greed alone is the reason for a man wanting to swell his ward. Votes: 0

I'm a joker who has understood his epoch and has extracted all he possibly could from the stupidity, greed and vanity of his contemporaries. Votes: 0

Christopher Finazzo had a great job that paid him millions of dollars, but this honest living was apparently not enough to satisfy his greed. Votes: 0

In the second and third exiles we have served as a living protest against greed and hate, against physical force, against "might makes right"! Votes: 0

The essential quality of a market system, contrary to popular thinking, is not that it promotes greed; but rather, that it renders greed harmless. Votes: 0

I love the competitive part of stocks. A lot of fear and greed, that's all it is. All I see is green and red. Votes: 0

Some men make money not for the sake of living, but ache In the blindness of greed and live just for their fortune's sake. Votes: 0

God is in heaven, and we all want what's his. But power and greed and corruptible seed seem to be all that there is. Votes: 0

Most wars are fought for greed, but we are luckier here we fight for our lives and the lives of the people we love. Votes: 0

Nirvana means to extinguish the burning fires of the Three Poisons: greed, anger, and ignorance. This can be accomplished by letting go of dissatisfaction. Votes: 0

People sometimes ask me, because of the blacklisting, "Do you hate the government? Don't you hate white people?" No, it's greed that's the problem. Votes: 0

Large corporations, of course, are blinded by greed. The laws under which they operate require it - their shareholders would revolt at anything less. Votes: 0

If workers struggle for higher wages, this is hailed as "social gains", if businessmen struggle for higher profits, this is damned as "selfish greed". Votes: 0

Meditation is the alchemy of transforming. The unconscious into the conscious. It gives you a tremendous power, Far greater than anger, greed and lust. Votes: 0

Abundance is rooted in community, not individualism. Abundance is what is before our eyes, but we cannot see when we are blinded by greed. Votes: 0

As long as greed is the root of all evil, there will not be peace.Get rid of selfishness and greed too will disappear. Votes: 0

Once you get involved with bloodsport litigation, you can not only get drunk on your own greed but start to believe your own lies. Votes: 0

The reason the Christians have murdered on such a vast scale and killed anyone and everyone in their way is purely and simply greed. Votes: 0

We have become so addicted to our greed-driven habits that we have lost our moral compass and don't know what is right and wrong. Votes: 0

There is no fire like passion, there is no shark like hatred, there is no snare like folly, there is no torrent like greed. Votes: 0

Cast aside those who liken godliness to whimsy and who try to combine their greed for wealth with their desire for a happy afterlife. Votes: 0

Fight only in direst need Not for lust or petty greed Honor those that do give birth Respect them well for their full worth Votes: 0

They who in folly or mere greed Enslaved religion, markets, laws, Borrow our language now and bid Us to speak up in freedom's cause. Votes: 0

One path is greed, the second is curiosity. With one, the journey is to a reward; with the other, the journey is the reward. Votes: 0

The best parenting strives to educate their children in HOW TO LIVE LIFE -- competitive, compassionate, void of greed, & striving to make a better world. Votes: 0

The self-despisers are less intent on their own increase than on the diminution of others. Where self-esteem is unobtainable, envy takes the place of greed. Votes: 0

That poverty is no disaster is understood by everyone who has not yet succumbed to the madness of greed and luxury that turns everything topsy-turvy. Votes: 0

Our world has grown weary of greed, exploitation and division, of the tedium of false idols and piecemeal responses, and the pain of false promises. Votes: 0

... Don't mistake any of this for altruism...Fear and greed just doesn't work. If you want to be successful, quality and service just works better. Votes: 0

Meditation is like the moon: it transforms the energy of lust into love, anger into compassion, greed into sharing, aggressiveness into receptivity, ego into humbleness. Votes: 0

if... says: 'Do not be greedy, be generous', you may inwardly interpret this in such a manner that you will develop a greed for generosity Votes: 0

The organization and constant onward sweep of this movement exemplifies the resentment of the many toward the selfishness, greed and the neglect of the few. Votes: 0

Our non-co-operation is with the system the English have established in India, with the material civilization and its attendant greed and exploitation of the weak. Votes: 0

Well, once you get involved with bloodsport litigation, you can not only get drunk on your own greed but start to believe your own lies. Votes: 0

The agrarian crisis [in India] is an unnecessary tragedy, resulting directly from an economics of greed and a politics driven by the economies of greed. Votes: 0

We want to bear witness today that we know the relation between corporate greed and what goes on too often in the Supreme Court decisions. Votes: 0

From eating meat arrogance is born, from arrogance erroneous imaginations issue, and from imagination is born greed; and for this reason refrain from eating meat. Votes: 0

It takes abstract thinking to see how greed can lead to prosperity, but it takes wishful thinking to claim that violence can lead to charity. Votes: 0

It isn't that greed's increased. What's increased is the realization that you've got a free field to reach out for what you'd like to do. Votes: 0

The cancer in me became an awareness of the cancer that is everywhere. The cancer of cruelty, the cancer of carelessness, the cancer of greed. Votes: 0

During periods of extreme fear or greed, you don't have the proper balance between those two to generate market efficiency and you get extremes in behavior. Votes: 0

I don't recognize hate, I don't recognize bitterness, I don't recognize jealousy, I don't recognize greed. I don't give them power. They don't exist to me. Votes: 0

Our first computers were born not out of greed or ego, but in the revolutionary spirit of helping common people rise above the most powerful institutions. Votes: 0

You know who's also joining the Wall Street protesters? Kanye West. That's a real good idea -- a guy with diamonds in his teeth protesting greed. Votes: 0

I'm filled with despair. We live in a pathological culture filled with rage and bitterness and greed. The hate-mongering and racism is reaching a frightening pitch. Votes: 0

Imagine no possesions, I wonder if you can, No need for greed or hunger, A brotherhood of man. Imagine all the people Sharing all the world. Votes: 0

All human suffering springs from unbridled desire. Unless one extricates oneself from the clutch of greed, one will not free himself from the fetters of sorrow. Votes: 0

Each of us needs to eliminate our anger, fear and greed. The roots of social conflicts and political tensions are in personal anger, fear and greed. Votes: 0

Work should never make me weary If I'm really meant to do it, But it soon becomes exhausting If it's greed that drives me to it. Votes: 0

Up until the Depression, recession had a moral character: it was supposed to purge the body economic of the greed and excess that attends a business expansion. Votes: 0

Kindness trumps greed: it asks for sharing. Kindness trumps fear: it calls forth gratefulness and love. Kindness trumps even stupidity, for with sharing and love, one learns. Votes: 0

Fear tends to manifest itself much more quickly than greed, so volatile markets tend to be on the downside. In up markets, volatility tends to gradually decline. Votes: 0

Lust for possession and greed has ravaged the soul of humanity like a great cancer, metastasizing throughout society in the form of a nouveau post-human, consumer hedonism. Votes: 0

Beware of greed and remain pure and just. Restrain yourself from every vice. He who cannot restrain himself, how will he be able to teach others restraint? Votes: 0

We [Americans] have to get beyond the greed-run-amok. We have to get beyond indifference to the poor and working people. We have to get beyond polarized politics. Votes: 0

When the stock market crashed, Franklin Roosevelt got on the television and didn't just talk about the princes of greed. He said, 'Look, here's what happened.' Votes: 0

In this world laws are written for the lofty aim of "the common good" and then acted out in life on the basis of the common greed. Votes: 0

I have never understood why it is "greed" to want to keep the money you have earned but not greed to want to take somebody else's money. Votes: 0

If as an environmentalist we are against anything... it is against the arrogance of power and the most obcene ways it shows up, which is in greed. Votes: 0

I want to be part of the happiness team - let's create the happiness team - from love, not greed, love of life & our planet, true & free. Votes: 0

When one, abandoning greed, feels no greed for what would merit greed, greed gets shed from him - like a drop of water from a lotus leaf. Votes: 0

There was no more good or evil in this world than we imagine there to be, either out of greed or out of innocence. Or sometimes madness. Votes: 0

I took charge of the government as per my commitment to serving the country and the people, and not out of any greed for yet another post. Votes: 0

As we grow up, we are exposed to hate and greed and anger and jealousy and peanut brittle and all kinds of things, our subtly body erodes. Votes: 0

Liberation didn't solve anything. It just opened up the doors to greed. Some people mix up sex now as if they were eating or drinking like crazy. Votes: 0

The problem of social organization is how to set up an arrangement under which greed will do the least harm, capitalism is that kind of a system. Votes: 0

People seem to take as much offence as they possibly can these days - it's almost a new type of greed, a new kind of road rage. Votes: 0

There is nothing wrong with being well off as long as money has a social and ethical value and is not the object of one's own greed. Votes: 0

We cannot sacrifice our safety to the murderous greed of drug cartels. We cannot stand idly by as drop houses, kidnappings and violence compromise our quality of life. Votes: 0

The ultimate goal of those who blame workers for Wall Street's economic crisis is to unravel the fabric of our common life in pursuit of greed and power. Votes: 0

We need to move beyond the demonisation of overpaid traders ... In finance and economics, ill-designed policy is a more powerful force for harm than individual greed or error. Votes: 0

It's time for greatness - not for greed. It's a time for idealism - not ideology. It is a time not just for compassionate words, but compassionate action. Votes: 0

I have news for the forces of greed and the defenders of the status quo: your time has come - and gone. It's time for change in America. Votes: 0

The hypocrisy of some is that we like to think of ourselves as sophisticated and evolved, but we're still also driven by primal urges like greed and power. Votes: 0

The fact that monasticism preceded the identification of greed as a primal sin is an important reminder that our very ability to name sin is a theological achievement. Votes: 0

When you're glad to be alive, good ideas come. The reason good ideas don't come today is because we're all bottled up with greed and anger. We're mad. Votes: 0

So while our art cannot, as we wish it could, save us from wars, privation, envy, greed, old age, or death, it can revitalize us amidst it all. Votes: 0

The Gesundheit Institute is a pie in the face of greed - by taking the most expensive thing in America, health care, and giving it away for free. Votes: 0

How can I be secure? Through amassing wealth beyond all measure? No. And what's beyond measure? That's a sickness. That's a trap. There is no measure. Only greed. Votes: 0

Going into our fear and confronting our greed, our weaknesses, our neediness is the way out. And the way out is through the mind, by choosing our thoughts. Votes: 0

The dull, purblind folly of the very rich men, their greed and arrogance, and the corruption in business and politics, have tended to produce a very unhealthy condition. Votes: 0

The basis of tragedy is man's helplessness against disease, war and death; the basis of comedy is man's helplessness against vanity (the vanity of love, greed, lust, power). Votes: 0

It's the ones who can't let go - of fear or anger, lust or greed, vanity or pride or power - who are most at risk of becoming corrupted. Votes: 0

Laissez-faire, supply and demand-one begins to be weary of all that. Leave all to egotism, to ravenous greed of money, of pleasure, of applause-it is the gospel of despair. Votes: 0

Lyndon Johnson believed the poor deserved a better life than the economy was providing them. He thought private power and greed had to be checked by a vibrant democracy. Votes: 0

We are moving from a chain of command to a web of connection, from competition to collaboration, from markets to networks and stockholders to stakeholders, and greed to green. Votes: 0

The cause of all these evils was the lust for power arising from greed and ambition; and from these passions proceeded the violence of parties once engaged in contention. Votes: 0

One step closer to the end of the world. The one-two combo of corporate greed and organised religion apparently proved to be too much for reason, sanity and compassion. Votes: 0

This isn't about fans, greed or money. It's about being morally right or wrong. Nobody is governing the way music gets from artists to fans. It's all running amok. Votes: 0

There will be people who will teach for the sake of greed or for the sake of ego. So watch their lives. Do they look and act like Jesus? Votes: 0

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 where it's always been. Votes: 0

I still play music for the same reasons as when I first started; for the energy, the feeling, the interaction with others. Not for the money, ego or greed. Votes: 0

A big man is always accused of gluttony, whereas a wizened or osseous man can eat like a refugee at every meal, and no one ever notices his greed. Votes: 0

I don't hate religion, I try not to hate religion. I hate the terrible things that religion makes people do, and I hate the greed that comes from it. Votes: 0

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 corruption of the soul. Votes: 0

After the demands of the ego and its greed surrendered, the struggle for fulfillment of personal desires lessens; life takes on a new zest like a breath of fresh air. Votes: 0

There is no such thing as senility when it comes to envy, greed laziness, wrath and pride. It's her destructive character from childhood." ~ Angelica Hopes, If I Could Tell You Votes: 0

A sack that can contain a person's greed...doesn't exist in this world. If your hearts not content, no matter how much you put in the sack, it's never enough. Votes: 0

The world in many ways would be a much calmer and gentler place if women ruled. There would have been fewer children sacrificed to the gods of greed and power. Votes: 0

The life of sensation is the life of greed; it requires more and more. The life of the spirit requires less and less; time is ample and its passage sweet. Votes: 0

Obviously you have to make a profit to put out a newspaper. I'm not an idiot. But when the margins are in excess of 25 per cent you're talking about greed. Votes: 0

Personal greed and egoism are things that cause human beings to forget respect for others and to violate rules that have been established for the sake of peace and friendship. Votes: 0

Do you want to know the cause of war? It is capitalism, greed, the dirty hunger for dollars. Take away the capitalist, and you will sweep war from the earth. Votes: 0

Very unfairly, there's a negative image of the kid, which really stems from the greed and selfishness of the NBA and NCAA. They're forcing these kids to go to school. Votes: 0

On some deep cosmic level, we are all one, and within us we each contain the potential for good and for destruction, for compassion and hate, for generosity and greed... Votes: 0

Do you want to know the cause of war? It is capitalism, greed, the dirty hunger for dollars. Take away the capitalist and you will sweep war from the earth. Votes: 0

Sail on, sail on, o' might Ship of State. To the shores of need, past the reefs of greed, through the squalls of hate. Sail on, sail on, sail on. Votes: 0

Original sin, the true original sin, is the blind destruction for the sake of greed of this natural paradise which lies all around us-if only we were worthy of it. Votes: 0

Religion as a vital issue is dead except on paper, and whatever beauty-baiting the future may witness will be the work of greed and trade, and not of honest cosmos-facing. Votes: 0

Is it not the excess and greed of this and the neglect of all other things that revolutionizes this constitution too and prepares the way for the necessity of a dictatorship? Votes: 0

There is more than enough for everyone. Any idea of lack and so its experience comes from fear. Fear powers greed, which encourages people to save for later just for themselves. Votes: 0

Our expensive welfare state is fueled by the destructive notion that 'greed' is when you want to keep your own money but 'compassion' is when you want to take somebody else's. Votes: 0

Safe-breaking and vault-breaking are at least as old as the pyramids and burial chambers of Egypt. Poking holes in vaults and safes for profit appears to be as durable as greed. Votes: 0

These are roots of all evil, hatred and greed, for money, for the construction and for the sale of weapons. This should make us all think, who is behind it all? Votes: 0

Happy the person who has learned the cause of things and has put under his or her feet all fear, inexorable fate, and the noisy strife of the hell of greed. Votes: 0

I really feel like if everyone listened to their angels the world which shift. We wouldn't see any kind of greed or competition - it would really be the world of kindness . Votes: 0

I think so much of neoliberalism and capitalism has caused people to live in a state of greed, fear and consumption that is covering up so much of what we really want. Votes: 0

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 who consume much less are a reproach. Votes: 0

It's a mystery to me; We have a greed, with which we have agreed. You think you have to want more than you need. Until you have it all, you won't be free. Votes: 0

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 greater thing than is the renown of riches. Votes: 0

A true opium of the people is a belief in nothingness after death - the huge solace of thinking that for our betrayals, greed, cowardice, murders we are not going to be judged. Votes: 0

Let us work without desire for name or fame or rule over others. Let us be free from the triple bonds of lust, greed of gain, and anger. And this truth is with us! Votes: 0

The best way to hate is the worst. 'Tis to find what the hated need, Never mind of what actual worth, And wipe that out of the earth. Let them die of unsatisfied greed.... Votes: 0

If you want money more than anything, you'll be bought and sold. If you have a greed for food, you'll be a loaf of bread. This is a subtle truth: Whatever you love, you are. Votes: 0

The party which is out sees nothing but graft and incapacity in the party which is in; and the party which is in sees nothing but greed and animosity in the party which is out. Votes: 0

In an age in which greed and lust stalk the land like some Biblical plague, it is easy to view sex as just one more thing to be had. It is the mythos of moderns. Votes: 0