Greed Human Nature Quotes

#1. [Y]ou possess all the attributes of a demagogue; a screeching, horrible voice, a perverse, crossgrained nature and the language of the market-place. In you all is united which is needful for governing.

Aristophanes

#2. It is kind of lovely to be sitting alone, just thinking, very quiet, no one around. I don't feel alone or left out.

Vin Scully

#3. The only angels we need invoke are those of our better nature: reason, honesty, and love. The only demons we must fear are those that lurk inside every human mind: ignorance, hatred, greed, and faith, which is surely the devil's masterpiece.

Sam Harris

#4. For if nature abhors a vacuum, and greed is part of human nature, then greed too abhors a vacuum.

Moises Naim

#5. Capitalism satisfied the Christian demand for an institution that channels selfish human desire toward the betterment of society. Some critics accuse capitalism of being a selfish system, but the selfishness is not in capitalism - it is in human nature.

Dinesh D'Souza

#6. Anybody can be a believer; but anybody cannot be a good man! First, be good; then, in addition to this, be whatever you wish!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

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

Emily Bronte

#8. Did the dead still want things? Or was death simply a letting go of all that is held so tightly in life - an understanding of the temporal and shallow nature of the human matters of possession, greed, desire, justice?

Lisa Wingate

#9. It's a good thing Kerry's dead, because that funeral would've sent him over the edge, Henry said.

Gayle Forman

#10. The nature of any human being, certainly anyone on Wall Street, is 'the better deal you give the customer, the worse deal it is for you'.

Bernard Madoff

#11. A good sculpture can be rolled downhill without breaking.

Michelangelo

#12. You are the most beautiful thing that ever happened to me, Lizzy. His voice was broken and scratchy and a tear slid out from the corner of each of his eyes.

Rachel Higginson

#13. Then the liars and swearers are fools, for there are liars and swearers enough to beat the honest men and hang up them.

William Shakespeare

#14. We are trapped by language to such a degree that every attempt to formulate insight is a play on words.

Niels Bohr

#15. Yet, there is a sense of some deep sort that runs entirely contrary to human nature; that in putting ourselves first, we must by necessity put others first.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#16. The greatest need in the world is the transformation of human nature. We need a new heart that will not have lust and greed and hate in it. We need a heart filled with love and peace and joy, and that is why Jesus came into the world.

Billy Graham

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

E.A. Bucchianeri

#18. There is something about wills which brings out the worst side of human nature. People who under ordinary circumstances are perfectly upright and amiable, go as curly as corkscrews and foam at the mouth, whenever they hear the words 'I devise and bequeath.

Dorothy L. Sayers

#19. I can't stand when people say, 'Don't hate me because I'm beautiful'. OK, how about I hate you because you said that.

Tia Carrere

#20. Unless the human race realizes with a passion and reverence beyond thought or words its inter-being with nature, it will destroy in its greed the very environment it is itself sustained by.

Andrew Harvey

#21. Lunch is formal - that's when my husband and I have our dates. And dinner is formal: we sit down every day with the kids at seven o' clock.

Debi Mazar

#22. The way you conquer fear is to feel it all the way, and then you'll find out that there's nothing there - it's just emotion.

Nick Nolte

#23. The greed of gain has no time or limit to its capaciousness. Its one object is to produce and consume. It has pity neither for beautiful nature nor for living human beings. It is ruthlessly ready without a moment's hesitation to crush beauty and life.

Rabindranath Tagore

#24. Human nature defeats me sometimes, how greed and spite can lurk so divisively around the utmost courage and sacrifice.

Jennifer Ryan

#25. You ever get the feeling the world's filling up with bastards? I do. What I want to know is what happens when all the bastards run out of people to crap on? What happens when all that's left in the world is bastards? ... The golden rule. Screw unto others before they screw unto you.

William Hoffman

#26. The state is concerned with the promotion of outward righteousness arising from the individual being constrained to keep the law. The Gospel alters human nature, whereas the state merely restrains human greed and evil, having no positive power to alter human motivation.

Alister E. McGrath

#27. Mr. Hicks appeared to have a deep dislike of all religion. On his Facebook page, nearly all of his posts expressed support for atheism, criticism of Christian conservatives or both.

Anonymous

#28. Peace and the survival of life on earth as we know it are threatened by human activities which lack a commitment to humanitarian values. Destruction of nature and nature's resources result from ignorance, greed and lack of respect for the earth's living things.

Dalai Lama

#29. And there can be no end to greed because man, by his very exclusive human nature, is pathologically insatiable.

Mariano Ngan

#30. A man in passion rides a horse that runs away with him.

Thomas Fuller

#31. God knows greed won't vanish. Neither will hatred or chauvanism. Human nature is a stubborn thing. But it isn't beyond control. Even if our core impulses can;t be banished, they can be tempered and redirected.

Robert Wright