Quotes About Greediness

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.

Money!It's all about money!It's all it ever is these days!

Avarice is patriotic!

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.

Avarice is patriotic!

The two men were greedily hunched over the table, like two wolves disputing a carcass, but their muttered speech in the echoing hall resembled more the grunting of pigs. One was less than a wolf: he was a public prosecutor. The other was more than a pig, he was a chief commissioner of police.

The one word that no politician will ever speak, is 'enough.' Enough.

The eye being a tender part, and soonest hurt, how watchful is man by nature over that, that it take no hurt. So the heart, being a tender thing, let us preserve it by all watchfulness to keep blows from off it. It is a terrible thing to keep a wound of some great sin upon the conscience, for it makes a way for a new breach; because when the conscience once begins to be hardened with some great sin, then there is no stop, but we run on to commit sin with all greediness. 9.

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Selfishness is not identical with self-love but with its very opposite. Selfishness is one kind of greediness. Like all greediness, it contains an insatiability, as a consequence of which there is never any real satisfaction. Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction.

Greed is the inventor of injustice as well as the current enforcer.

Banks are an almost irresistible attraction for that element of our society which seeks unearned money.

they were, they soon began to think they were not getting rich fast enough, and, imagining the bird must be made of gold inside, they decided to kill it in order to secure the

You wring your hands to see it, and that's another illustration of love; in the end you are too heavy to move with the greediness of the stomach.

I want to place the facts before the people. Tell them about the greediness of Congress and how it divided the Telugu people and destroyed the state for political gains.

He was a swine whose only god was gold.

with his irritation and anger still at a boiling point, Brian thought again about the two CEOs and how they seemed to be poster children for what was wrong with American medicine and unbridled entrepreneurial capitalism. And as a doer, he knew he couldn't just passively allow their greediness to go unchallenged and dictate the unraveling of his life. He had to do something. He just didn't know what.

Man's greed to obtain something for nothing has never yet been able to content itself with a moderate profit.

I never met a man who had such a love of money.

Life is easy greediness adds complexity

You manufacture weapons; you sell; you earn; you conspire and misguide to burn for new manufacturing; your crime circles in this circle, and you determine for global peace; it is evil trade; it is the idiocy of idiots. Peace will undoubtedly appear and fragrance whenever you will realize your awkward interests, devilish policies, and the hegemony of greediness.

The wonder of life is in the miracle of life. There is spectacle, there is awe and there is incredulity. The blunder of life is in the greediness of Man from Abel and Cain to the City of Sodom and concurrently to the conflict in the Gaza Strip.

Our greediness so often troubles us, making us run after so many things at the same time, that while we too eagerly look after the least we miss the greatest.

The most important one was the belief, which went back to Lenin, that capitalists would never be able to cooperate with one another for very long. Their inherent greediness—the irresistible urge to place profits above politics—would sooner or later prevail, leaving communists with the need only for patience as they awaited their adversaries' self-destruction.