Religious Greed Quotes

#1. In the bible homosexuality is condemned, but along with divorce and greed and callousness toward poor people. So its elevation to a highest priority among some religious groups has been very disturbing to me.

Jimmy Carter

#2. It is not our mistakes that define who we are; it is how we recover from those mistakes.

Bo Bennett

#3. 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?

Dennis Prager

#4. As the primary end of History is to record truth, impartiality, fidelity and accuracy are the fundamental qualities of an Historian.

Hugh Blair

#5. When the greedy executives of rich religions go before Him, they will say, "Remember me for who I was." And God will answer, "I do remember but you have forgotten who you use to be.

Shannon L. Alder

#6. You've got to play with pride and guts.

Lamar Odom

#7. In other words, I'm against cheating, greed, cruelty, racism, imperialism, religious fundamentalism, treason, and the seemingly limitless capacity for hypocrisy shown by Bush and his administration.

Viggo Mortensen

#8. Religious leaders could play a significant role in making explicit the connections between current concerns for the environment and age-old teachings about our dependence on the natural world, and the dangers of greed and excess

Ian Christie

#9. That whenever I felt like helping someone who was short of money, or otherwise in need, I never had to be told that I had no resources to do it with. And that I was never put in that position myself - of having to take something from someone else.

Marcus Aurelius

#10. Where's the line, Sarah? What separates an informal effort from a rogue operation?" "Success," she countered. "And secrecy.

Matthew Palmer

#11. 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.

Bob Dylan

#12. Writing and giving voice to what I am feeling makes me happy. And supporting people in finding their voice, passion, outrage and resistance. There is nothing better than that.

Eve Ensler

#13. Racism is taught in the home. We agree on that? Well, it's very hard to teach racism to a teenager who's listening to rap music and who idolizes, say, Snoop Dogg. It's hard to say, 'That guy is less than you.' The kid is like, 'I like that guy, he's cool. How is he less than me?

Jay-Z

#14. I have no idea how people function without near-constant internal chaos. I'd lose my mind.

Dave Eggers