Greed Destroys Quotes

#1. Selfishness creates greed and greed destroys the soul.

Zarina Bibi

#2. Pride is the king of vices ... it is the first of the pallbearers of the soul ... other vices destroy only their opposite virtues, as wantonness destroys chastity; greed destroys temperance; anger destroys gentleness; but pride destroys all virtues.

Fulton J. Sheen

#3. And, you know, money is - the money edge is really dangerous to democracy. Because what you have right now - people have said to me that, look, you'll always be outspent, so how can you ever win?

Richard Trumka

#4. Genuflection before the idol or the dollar destroys the muscles which walk and the will that moves.

Victor Hugo

#5. The idea made Mahlia's chest tighten. It was her own fantasy, the secret one she sometimes curled up to when she went to bed, knowing that it was stupid, but still wanting it, wanting it to somehow all make sense.

Paolo Bacigalupi

#6. Greed is so destructive. It destroys everything.

Eartha Kitt

#7. Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable, and others extremely difficult.

Samuel Johnson

#8. I happen to believe that we should move to a Medicare-for-all single-payer system, similar to what other countries around the world have.

Bernie Sanders

#9. There's very little money and very little freedom in doing it [webshows] for a major corporation. Doing things independantly is and always will be better I think, due to the recalcitrance of stubborn network hands.

Michael Cera

#10. Remember, the goal is to take emotion out of investing because emotion is what so often destroys investing success, whether it's greed or fear.

Anthony Robbins

#11. Nothing destroys one's respect in the hearts of others more than greed.

Muhammad Taqi Usmani

#12. To remember everything is a form of madness.

Brian Friel

#13. Greed will always leave you dissatisfied because you'll never be able to get everything you desire. Greed never allows you to think you have enough; it always destroys you by making you strive ever harder for more.

Benjamin Blech

#14. Once capital becomes an idol and guides people's decisions, once greed for money presides over the entire socioeconomic system, it ruins society, it condemns and enslaves men and women, it destroys human fraternity, it sets people against one another and it even puts at risk our common home.

Pope Francis

#15. The love for material things grows like a fungus in the soul and destroys the loveliness of the human heart utterly.

Caryll Houselander

#16. Giving with glad and generous hearts has a way of routing out the tough old miser within us. Even the poor need to know that they can give. Just the very act of letting go of money, or some other treasure, does something within us. It destroys the demon greed.

Richard J. Foster