Quotes About Greed

I am prone to envy. It is one of my three default emotions, the others being greed and rage. I have also experienced compassion and generosity, but only fleetingly and usually while drunk, so I have little memory.

This conglomeration of decayed antiquity, collected with the disease of greed, surely invites our charity. It would be better to forget these trumpery ideas, and learn the best of traditions by observing your own functions, and regarding modernity in an unbiased way.10

One of the weaknesses of our age is our apparent inability to distinguish our need from our greed.

We are born brave, trusting and greedy, and most of us remain greedy.

Money is the barometer of a society's virtue.

Money is a strange business. People who haven't got it aim it strongly. People who have are full of troubles.

It is well worth our while to check out need against greed, and see where that takes us.

Bir balta için bunca ç?rp?nmas? salt cimriliÄŸinden deÄŸil, yoksulluÄŸundand?; e cimriliÄŸi de yoksulluÄŸundan ya!

Morals are taught & preached not for the sake of heaven, but to assist those people on earth who have everything they need & more to retain their possessions & to help them to accumulate still more. Morals is the butter for those who have no bread.

It isn't the gold that changes man, it is the power which gold gives to man that changes the soul of man. This power, though, is only imaginary. If not recognized by other men, it does not exist.

No penance is greater than the one done for maintaining peace, no happiness is better than the one received from satisfaction, no disease is more damaging than greed and no Dharma is better than the one having compassion for all.

The Six Emotional Disturbances Through yoga we are able to lessen the six emotional disturbances that cause us so much anguish: lust, pride and obsession, anger, hatred, and greed. They are called negative emotions by Western psychology or deadly sins by Christianity, and indeed these emotional reactions are enemies of spiritual growth when they are beyond our control. However, each of these emotions exists for a purpose and can be used wisely.

It is against nature for money to beget money.

We've got to make greedy banks pass on interest rate cuts in full, and we've got to see rents coming down.

Banks were already seen as greedy and arrogant. They have now reached the depths of humiliation in the wake of the LIBOR manipulation, PPI mis-selling, and bank swaps mis-selling.

I guess the Reagan era is defined as the 'I want it all for me, and screw everybody else' era.

My sister wants a Rollie. When I buy one now, I gotta buy like five, ten. It's crazy.

We are governed by consumerism and it's terrible when that is all that life is geared to.

It all comes down to money. If the money is right, I'll fight anybody, any time. I'll hit my grandma in the face if the price is right.

Behind every great fortune lies a great crime.

I had made a great deal of money, and I was proud of it. I was a capitalist.

Greed has driven the world crazy. And I think I'm lucky that I have a place over here that I can call home.

Greed and globalization aren't just America's fault.

I think the main focus in America is - is basically greed.