Quotes About Greed

Pa što - zamišljeno je rekao taj - ljudi kao ljudi. Vole novac, ali tako je uvijek bilo... ?ovje?anstvo voli novac, ma od ?ega on bio napravljen, od kože, od papira, od bakra ili zlata. Lakomisleni... Što ?eš... I milosr?e ponekad zastruji u njihovim srcima... Obi?ni ljudi... Op?enito uzevši, podsje?aju na prijašnje... Samo ih je stambeno pitanje pokvarilo...

Pa što, zamišljeno je rekao taj,ljudi kao ljudi. Vole novac, ali tako je uvijek bilo...?ovje?anstvo voli novac, ma od ?ega on bio napravljen, od kože, od papira, od bakra ili zlata.

Suicide is worse than murder. One can murder for vengeance or out of greed, but even greed is the expression of a perverted love of life. But to commit suicide is to throw one's life down contemptuously at God's feet

If you are extremely generous, greed will run away.

Gold will buy the highest honours; and gold will purchase love.

The love of dominion is the most engrossing passion.

Human beings are very complex creatures. This desire, this greed, this love is very complex.

I love fashion and beauty and all those things, I still do but I think that it has changed the shift, that the greed is ruling the planet right now.

The path of love has many opponents - fear, self-pity, anxiety, hate, lust, greed, avarice - all the usual freinds.

It is not the creation of wealth that is wrong, but the love of money for its own sake.

All your jewels are mine to plunder.

Love in the service of self is greed in disguise.

Then, as he is criminal he is selfish.

Thank God! this is the country where bribery can do anything, and we are well supplied with money.

I have all the characteristics of a human being: blood, flesh, skin, hair; but not a single, clear, identifiable emotion, except for greed and disgust. Something horrible is happening inside of me and I don't know why. My nightly bloodlust has overflown into my days. I feel lethal, on the verge of frenzy. I think my mask of sanity is about to slip.

Greed is good. Sex is easy. Youth is forever.

and somehow, the more we would face our own demons of pride, greed, and lust, the more gentle and kind we would become toward others, the less judgmental, the less harsh, the more empathetic, because we realize as never before that everyone is pitched in an invisible inner battle, and the battle isn't easy for anyone.

If enough individuals are full of despair and anger in their hearts, there will be violence in the streets. If enough individuals are full of greed and fear in their hearts, there will be pollution in the rivers and toxins in the air. If enough individuals are full of supremacy and privilege in their hearts, there will be racism and oppression in society. You can't remove the external social symptoms without treating the corresponding internal personal diseases. But

Locate an evil, and you'll find the love of money at or near the root of it.

When grace is replaced by greed, and generosity is displaced by avarice, there is no limit to the depths of evil that can result.

Humankind has not learned about balance, let alone practiced it. It is guided by greed and ambition, steered by fear. In this way it will eventually destroy itself. But nature will survive; at least the plants will.

Generosity overpowers greed.

The rich become rich by taking, and the poor by giving.

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