Quotes About Greed

As wages rise, or when governments pay parents to send their children to school, child labor plummets, which suggests that poor parents send their children to work out of desperation rather than greed.54

in which I argued that human beings are fitted by evolution with a number of destructive motives such as greed, lust, dominance, vengeance, and self-deception.

Though many intellectuals, following in the footsteps of Saints Augustine and Jerome, hold businesspeople in contempt for their selfishness and greed, in fact a free market puts a premium on empathy.

People see violence as moral, not immoral: across the world and throughout history, more people have been murdered to mete out justice than to satisfy greed.28

Landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed.

Money is like love; it kills slowly and painfully the one who withholds it, and enlivens the other who turns it on his fellow man.

It has been said that the love of money is the root of all evil. The want of money is so quite as truly.

If you love peace, then hate injustice, hate tyranny, hate greed ? but hate these things in yourself, not in another.

There is a sufficiency in the world for man's need but not for man's greed.

Money is not the root of all kinds of evil. The love of money is. It's also the root of a lot of bad art.

Greed, like the love of comfort, is a kind of fear.

Human dignity can be achieved only in the field of ethics, and ethical achievement is measured by the degree in which our actions are governed by compassion and love, not by greed and aggressiveness.

Kindness trumps greed: it asks for sharing. Kindness trumps fear: it calls forth gratefulness and love. Kindness trumps even stupidity, for with sharing and love, one learns.

Pleasure for others is the only pleasure possible to me. I assure you I'm quite selfish! - I'm greedy for the happiness of those I love - and if they can't or won't be happy I'm perfectly miserable.

Give her the continent and she wanted the hemisphere.

The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.

It is supposed to true that those who do not know history are condemned to repeat it. I don't believe knowing can save us. What is constant in history is greed and foolishness and love of blood.

We may love money without having it, just as we may have money without loving it.

What shall I do when greed consumes me? Remember that it is truly better to give than to receive.

What shall I do when greed consumes me? Remember that it is truly better to give than to receive. The world is a forum of sharing and trading (that's Rule 7, again), not a treasure-house for the plundering. To give is to do what you can to make things better.

They were drunk on youth, fueled by greed, and higher than kites.

But what was wrong with that? They were drunk on youth, fueled by greed, and higher than kites.

Money is the oxygen of capitalism and I wanna breathe more than any man alive.

Break their hearts and take their money , they have no power.