Top 100 Quotes About Greed
#2. I certainly understand that we're all trying to make a living, but I'm not thinking about that when I'm making it. And if that's your sole motivation, it's going to reflect that narcissistic greed, and you're going to hear it in the music.
Aimee Mann
#3. It means zero to be against greed.
Ben Stein
#4. The reality, Haung knew, would be something quite different. From a distance, civilisation looks clean and desirable. Up close, the shine is dulled by self-interest and tarnished by greed.
G.R. Matthews
#5. I didn't do it because of the underlying greed that's prevailing, but it is about greed, doing the right thing at the right time using your clout when you have it and what for and what reason.
Danny DeVito
#6. GREED AND COMPETITION ARE NOT THE RESULT OF IMMUTABLE HUMAN TEMPERMENT ... GREED AND FEAR OF SCARCITY ARE IN FACT BEING CREATED AND AMPLIFIED ... THE DIRECT CONSEQUENCE IS THAT WE HAVE TO FIGHT WITH EACH OTHER IN ORDER TO SURVIVE
Bernard Lietaer
#7. What I'm trying to argue, as passionately as I can, is that the Jesus story isn't worth dying for, it's worth living for. Jesus presents a third way, a way of being in the worth that embraces the Sermon on the Mount, with its challenge to violence and greed.
Jay Parini
#8. When you sacrifice everything for your family, and you're committed to changing your lifestyle to secure a better future, it is not an act of greed, but rather an act of faith.
Celso Cukierkorn
#10. 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?
Pope Francis
#11. Money is a form of alchemy, [ ... ] it turns kind, normal people into greed-mongers, intent only on acquisitiveness.
Jasper Fforde
#12. 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.
David Letterman
#13. Gordon Gekko was right: greed is good. Because, the potty-trained Republicans have now stepped forward - like the Koch brothers - to say, 'You know what? You yokels stop talking about defaulting on the debt, because I'm going to lose a fortune!'
Bill Maher
#14. The only fundamental truth is greed, and the only question is who is up front about this. That's the new authenticity.
Nathan Hill
#15. As utterly irrational as it might seem, the greed within me has the most limited vision I can possibly imagine as it has eyes only for the few things it doesn't have, and it is completely blind to all the many remarkable things that it does.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#16. 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.
Gautama Buddha
#17. I am a daughter, a son of God's, part of God's royal family. In the perspective of eternity, many things of this world are petty, beneath me: Vulgarity, stinginess, greed, grudges.
Ken Untener
#19. 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
#20. I am aware that there is a world out there that functions without regard to me. There are wars and budgets and bombings and vast dimensions of wealth and greed and ambition and corruption. And yet I don't feel a part of that world, and I wouldn't know how to join if I tried.
Douglas Coupland
#21. I think we need to take on the greed of the billionaire class, a disastrous campaign finance system.
Bernie Sanders
#22. Animals are neither gods nor fiends, but men in their way without the lust and greed of man.
Robert E. Howard
#23. We've been raised to compete, to want more! More! More! It's a way of life. It's about greed.
Sandy Duncan
#24. Sex, greed, debauchery - I love it. Brian Azzarello is brilliant.
Joseph Finder
#25. Let sincere men and women the world over unite in earnest effort to supplant feelings of selfishness, hatred, animosity, greed, by the law of service to others, and thereby promote the peace and happiness of mankind.
David O. McKay
#26. 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.
Alison Hawthorne Deming
#27. The monk, Gregory the Great, tells how a nun, in her greed, ate a lettuce without first making the sign of the cross to protect herself against the evil spirits that hide between its leaves, and so she became possessed by a demon. Greetwell
Karen Maitland
#28. Weapons are inauspicious instruments, not the tools of the enlightened. When there is no choice but to use them, it is best to be calm and free from greed, and not celebrate victory. Those who celebrate victory are bloodthirsty, and the bloodthirsty cannot have their way with the world.
Sun Tzu
#29. Greed is costly. Assembled fortunes are lost.
Laozi
#31. Wealth and greed are the roots of all evils
Ali R.A
#32. Nobody can spare themselves the waiting and most will be unable to bear this torment, but will throw themselves with greed back at men, things, and thoughts, whose slaves they will become
C. G. Jung
#33. Free markets and capitalism are predicated upon the definition of greed as altruistic in economics".
~R. Alan Woods [2012]
R. Alan Woods
#34. That was what magic was: greed. Magic wielders didn't wield magic; it wielded them
Justine Larbalestier
#35. War, money and greed that is the modern heinous Trinity, and they are inseparable these days.
Kristian Goldmund Aumann
#36. Greed is rightly considered a "deadly sin" because it erodes the moral values that encourage us to care for the common good. Greed violates the spirit of connectedness and community that is natural to human survival [...] replacing this awareness with harmful self-centeredness.
Bell Hooks
#37. And greed will breed harshness and cruelty.
And wealth is a maze to confuse.
Once a person is warm and well-suppered,
how much of such wealth can they use?
Mitton Tony
#38. It's a familiar truism that at any one moment, financial markets are dominated by either fear or greed. But the healthiest markets are those that are animated by both fear and greed at the same time.
James Surowiecki
#39. Greed: A word commonly used by liberals, low achievers, anti-capitalists and society's losers to denigrate, shame and discredit those who have acquired superior job skills and decision-making capabilities and who, through the application of those, a job.
Neal Boortz
#40. The source of peace is within us; so also the source of war. And the real enemy is within us, and not outside. The source of war is not the existence of nuclear weapons or other arms. It is the minds of human beings who decide to push the button and to use those arms out of hatred, anger or greed.
Dalai Lama
#41. 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
#42. 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.
Aga Khan IV
#43. I was Amazement
I was Desire
I was Ecstasy and Rapture and the slightest bit of Greed.
Sharon Shinn
#44. The raising of animals for food and all that it entails is the single most destructive force impacting our planet's fragile ecosystems. Our planet simply cannot sustain the greed of billions of human beings who are eating other animals.
Sharon Gannon
#45. My teacher said once that every man faces seven enemies in his lifetime. Sickness, hunger, betrayal, envy, greed, old age, and then death ...
Osamu Tezuka
#46. Sufficient to say, greed is a deadly deed. You shall not covet your neighbor's goods.
Saint Patrick
#47. The greatest bad guys, you understand where they're coming from. They believe they're doing the right thing. Sometimes it's for greed, sometimes it's for other reasons, but they are what they call the center of good. They always believe they're doing the right thing.
John Lasseter
#48. John will never send a boy or girl in a uniform anywhere in the world because of our need and greed for oil.
Teresa Heinz
#49. If I had a child who wanted to be a teacher, I would bid him Godspeed as if he were going to war. For indeed the war against prejudice, greed, and ignorance is eternal, and those who dedicate themselves to it give their lives no less because they may live to see some fraction of the battle won.
James Hilton
#50. Men should continue to fight, but they should fight for things worth while, not for imaginary geographical lines, racial prejudices and private greed draped in the color's of patriotism.
Albert Einstein
#51. -Imagine a world without the arrogance of the young.-
-Imagine a world without the greed of the old.-
Pierce Brown
#52. 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
Jacque Fresco
#53. There is no calamity greater than lavish desires.There is no greater guilt than discontentment.And there is no greater disaster than greed.
Lao-Tzu
#54. Jesus reserved his hardest words for the hidden sins of hypocrisy, pride, greed and legalism.
Philip Yancey
#55. This meal happened to be a make-believe tea, and they sat 'round the board guzzling in their greed; and really, what with their chatter and recriminations, the noise, as Wendy said, was postiviely deafening.
J.M. Barrie
#56. Instead of hating the people you think are war-makers, hate the appetites and disorder in your own soul, which are the causes of war. If you love peace, then hate injustice, hate tyranny, hate greed - but hate these things in yourself, not in another.
Thomas Merton
#57. At what point do we admit that the NFL's true economic function is to channel our desire for athletic heroism into an engine of nihilistic greed?
Steve Almond
#58. People always ask me for my secret. There isn't one. You've just got to keep a level head and stay away from greed, which is the worst thing that can happen to a successful person.
Dennis Washington
#59. It was not curiosity that killed the goose who laid the golden egg, but an insatiable greed that devoured common sense.
E.A. Bucchianeri
#60. They mouth love's language. Gnash
The thirteen teeth
Your lean jaws grin with. Lash
Your itch and quailing, nude greed of the flesh.
Love's breath in you is stale, worded or sung,
As sour as cat's breath,
Harsh of tongue.
James Joyce
#61. Classism and greed are making insignificant all the other kinds of isms.
Ruby Dee
#62. I think what the secretary Hillary Clinton has recognized is the American people are extremely angry about the power of Wall Street, the greed, the illegal behavior of Wall Street.
Bernie Sanders
#64. As long as greed is the root of all evil, there will not be peace.
Get rid of selfishness and greed too will disappear.
Zarina Bibi
#65. The truth now.He was disappointed in human beings.He had seen too many betrayals,too many pitiful weaknesses,too much greed for money and fame.The falseness between lovers,husbands and wifes,fathers,sons,mothers,daughters
Mario Puzo
#66. Only when the brain has cleansed itself of its conditioning, greed, envy, ambition, then only it can comprehend that which is complete. Love is this completeness.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
#67. There is no samkit (vision with right belief that I am Pure Soul) where there are kashays [anger, pride, deceit and greed], and where there are no kashays, there is samkit (self realization).
Dada Bhagwan
#68. 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 ...
Starhawk
#69. The pain and shame felt are unknown to those with planned vacations. They know not of the tsunami that rescinded the homes, goals, and hopes of its victims - swallowed by the sea of greed.
John-Talmage Mathis
#70. But he would protect her with his heart for a little while. For a little while, before the insentient iron world and the Mammon of mechanised greed did them both in, her as well as him.
D.H. Lawrence
#71. What does greed mean? Greed means taking away what belongs to others.
Dada Bhagwan
#72. We pay people and reward them for greed and sleaze . When a sex tape gets made a star is born with a publicity agent on speed dial a six figure pay cheque and a tacky lingerie line ... selling filth so you can get your face on Time magazine ... From Jukebox
Saira Viola
#73. When we let our Greed become our Need, we can never be happy indeed!-RVM
R.v.m.
#74. There's enough on this planet for everyone's needs but not for everyone's greed.
Mahatma Gandhi
#75. Does it matter if you get the presents anyway? she said, making a direct appeal to greed.
Terry Pratchett
#76. When you cast away all your greed and fixation in adversity, you can find unexpected strength.
Momofuku Ando
#77. Democracy, frequently defined as Individual greed, moderated by an efficient but not too zealous government.
Arthur C. Clarke
#78. 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.
John L. Lewis
#79. What man calls civilizationalways results in desertsman is never on the squarehe uses up the fat and greenery of the eartheach generation wastes a little moreof the future with greed and lust for riches
Don Marquis
#80. Greed does not rest until it is satisfied, and greed is never satisfied
Sam Eastland
#81. Envy and greed starve on a steady diet of thanksgiving.
Billy Graham
#82. Why do progress and beauty have to be so opposed? ; 75
Also, as in war, the case, like a great bubbling cauldron of life itself, threw up both good and evil. Greed, madness, cruelty and indifference were countered by goodness, devotion, self-sacrifice, and courage. p 178
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
#83. Dramatic and emotional trading experiences tend to be negative. Pride is a great banana peel, as are hope, fear, and greed. My biggest slip-ups occurred shortly after I got emotionally involved with positions.
Ed Seykota
#84. 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.
Robert T. Kiyosaki
#85. That is what happens when the heart door opens- you become less yourself than part of everything.' Many are the sentinels who guard that door: our fears, our self-importance, our meanness, our greed, our bitterness, and others.
Roger Housden
#86. People's lives are filled with vice and the trappings of it. Ambition, greed and selfishness all have to do with vice. Sooner or later, you have to see through it or you don't survive.
Bob Dylan
#87. The shadow of greed, attachment is. What you fear to lose, train yourself to release. Let go of fear, and loss cannot harm you.
Terry Brooks
#89. In my experience there are only a handful of reasons for murder ... Jealousy, vengeance, greed, fear and pleasure ... Some killers enjoy the kill ... For them it is a great game, and for the most part they are the ones I hunt.
Amanda Quick
#90. But love, like the sun that it is, sets afire and melts everything. what greed and privilege to build up over whole centuries the indignation of a pious spirit, with its natural following of oppressed souls, will cast down with a single shove.
Jose Marti
#91. Just as black anger often proved counterproductive, so have these white resentments distracted attention from the real culprits of the middle class squeeze - a corporate culture rife with inside dealing, questionable accounting practices, and short-term greed.
Barack Obama
#92. 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.
Steve Wozniak
#93. I brought the cup to my lips with greed
Begging for longevity, my temporal need
Cup brought its to mine, its secret did feed
Time never returns, drink, of this take heed
Omar Khayyam
#94. I have vanity and greed enough for one person. But at the same time, I feel in my bones you lose a lot of life's value if you don't see yourself as a member of the family of man.
Ralph Waite
#95. I think war is based in greed and there are huge karmic retributions that will follow. I think war is never the answer to solving any problems. The best way to solve problems is to not have enemies.
Sheryl Crow
#96. Laziness wasn't as reliable as greed, but it still made a fine lever.
Leigh Bardugo
#97. Carley saw two forces in life--the destructive and constructive. On the one side greed, selfishness, materialism: on the other generosity, sacrifice, and idealism.
Zane Grey
#98. Greed, apathy, hubris - even loyalty - all demand payment in the end. Storms will always come, and men will always do evil in the shadow of some other word.
Greg Iles
#99. 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.
William J. Clinton
#100. When did that higher, more spiritual conviction become something craven and greedy? And then again when did that greed transform itself into something worse, something less of the instinct and more closely related to the higher faculties?
Alaa Alghamdi
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