Quotes About Greed

No.. no questo tipo no, non è capace. Questo vuole prendere tutto, arraffare tutto, non sa rinunciare a niente; cambia strada ogni giorno perché ha paura di perdere quella giusta, e sta morendo, come dissanguato.

homens que por indústria e engenho voam por cima das águas todas, por adquirirem o que Deus lhes nao deu, ou a pobreza neles é tanta que todo lhes faz esquecer a sua pátria, ou a vaidade, e a cegueira que lhes causa a sua cobiça é tamanha que por ela renegam a Deus, e a seus pais.

Los partidos políticos, sepan ustedes de boca del que nació en uno, son unas mafias descaradas, unas camarillas avorazadas, unos aprovechadores privados que se las dan de servidores públicos y a los que se les hace agua la boca invocando a la patria. No hay tal. No la quieren.

There is reason to fear that men love better to investigate how muslins, hay-rakes, and, above all and inclusive of all, money may be made, than how their own minds are constructed

The most frequent weak points in man are, from time to time, always the same: pride, money, and lust.

The law perverted! The law—and, in its wake, all the collective forces of the nation—the law, I say, not only diverted from its proper direction, but made to pursue one entirely contrary! The law become the tool of every kind of avarice, instead of being its check! The law guilty of that very iniquity which it was its mission to punish! Truly, this is a serious fact, if it exists, and one to which I feel bound to call the attention of my fellow citizens.

Legal plunder has two roots: one of them, as we have already seen, is in human greed; the other is in misconceived philanthropy.

The law has been perverted by the influence of two entirely different causes: stupid greed and false philanthropy. Let us speak of the first.

Neviens rekl?mas p?rst?vis nev?las j?su laimi, jo laim?gi cilv?ki nav pat?r?t?ji.

??nh cao c?a s? t?m th??ng chính là ti?n, b?i ai c?ng thèm khát nó.

El defecto de que tú me hubieras curado, si me hubieses querido, era el de no colocar nada por encima del beneficio inmediato, de ser incapaz de dejar la pequeña y mediocre presa de los honorarios por la sombra del poder, porque no hay sombra sin realidad; la misma sombra es una realidad. Pero, ¡bah! Yo no tenía más que el consuelo de «ganar mucho», como el tendero de la esquina.

No, not like me. He's no better than the other Fellmottes. Another rich man bent on what he thinks the world owes him, and willing to pay any price, as long as it's in the blood of others.

Another rich man bent on what he thinks the world owes him, and willing to pay any price, as long as it's in the blood of others.

The greatest need in the world is the transformation of human nature. We need a new heart that will not have lust and greed and hate in it. We need a heart filled with love and peace and joy, and that is why Jesus came into the world.

There is nothing wrong with men possessing riches. The wrong comes when riches possess men.

All of us are not subjected to the same weaknesses and temptations. To one, alcohol may be the temptation; to another, it may be impure thoughts and acts; to another, greed and covetousness; to another, criticism and an unloving attitude.

For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. Some people, eager for money, have wandered from the faith and pierced themselves with many griefs. 1 TIMOTHY 6:10 NIV

The word lust [can] mean "selfish desire." . . .It is wanting something so badly you will do anything to get it. That is one of the tricks of the devil. It is too high a price to pay.

The Christian is not to be disturbed by the chaos, violence, strife, bloodshed, and threat of war that fill the pages of our daily newspapers. We know that these things are the consequences of man's sin and greed. Every day as I read my newspaper I say: "The Bible is true.

If the human race would turn from its evil ways and return to God, putting behind its sins of disobedience, idolatry, pride, greed, and belligerence, and all the various aberrations that lead to war, the possibility of peace exists.

Envy and greed always—always—exact a terrible price. I have never met an envious or greedy person who was at peace.

The Bible warns us against greed and selfishness, it does encourage frugality and thrift.

The Bible sees greed as a form of idolatry, because a greedy person worships things instead of God. Greed and envy have their roots in selfishness.

Envy and greed starve on a steady diet of thanksgiving.