Quotes About Greed

He alluded in feeling terms to the Providence which watches over good young men and saves them from the blighting necessity of offering themselves in the flower of their golden youth as human sacrifices to the Moloch of capitalistic greed: and, having commiserated with his guests in that a similar stroke of luck had not happened to each of them, advised them to drown their sorrows in drink.

Worldly objects are short-lived. They may or may not last until tomorrow. They consume the life of our senses. No matter how long we live, it is not enough. Therefore, O Gurudeva, please keep your chariots, elephants, and dancing girls for yourself. "A human being can never be satiated with wealth.

Song of the Turtle" is a poem that dates back to the Ghanaian period: We lived in freedom Before man appeared: Our world was undisturbed, One day followed the other joyfully. Dissent was never heard. Then man broke into our forest, With cunning and belligerence. He pursued us With greed and envy: Our freedom vanished.

an excerpt from The Dausi: Four times Wagadu rose. A great city, gleaming in the light of day. Four times Wagadu fell and disappeared from human sight. Once through vanity. Once through dishonesty. Once through greed. Once through discord. Four times Wagadu changed her name. First she was Dierra, then Agada, then Ghana, then Silla.

driven by greed, try to become giants and fail," Munson writes on his blog. "We aren't like that. We are and will maintain our family of leather owners with love.

Sienna frowned. "Pride, greed, lust, envy, gluttony, wrath, and sloth." Langdon was impressed. "You know Latin." "I grew up Catholic. I know sin.

I come for wisdom, and he offers me wealth

Cineva trebuie s? duc? acest r?zboi, altfel, ?sta-i viitorul nostru. Matematica îl garanteaz?. Omenirea se complace acum într-un purgatoriu al nehot?rârii, al procastin?rii È™i al l?comiei personale... dar cercurile iadului aÈ™teapt? imediat sub picioarele noastre, gata s? ne înghit? pe toÈ›i.

Mankind is hovering now in a purgatory of procrastination and indecision and personal greed... but the rings of hell await, just beneath our feet, waiting to consume us all.

Money is neither my god nor my devil. It is a form of energy that tends to make us more of who we already are whether it's greedy or loving.

People always pay a lot of money for things that make them stupid.

Look," said Tyrena. "In twentieth-century Old Earth, a fast food chain took dead cow meat, fried it in grease, added carcinogens, wrapped it in petroleum-based foam, and sold nine hundred billion units. Human beings. Go figure.

As covetousness is the root of all evil, so poverty is the worst of all snares.

Everyone in your culture knows this. Man was born to turn the world into a paradise, but tragically he was born flawed. And so his paradise has always been spoiled by stupidity, greed, destructiveness, and shortsightedness.

"He who increases his wealth by exorbitant interest amasses it for another, who will be kind to the poor."

Greed is good until it affects someone's Need…

I think greed sometimes gets the best of everybody.

It's our greed to extract more and more from good that turns it into evil.

Greed is not a financial issue. It's a heart issue.

Gordon Gekko was right: greed is good. Because, the potty-trained Republicans have now stepped forward – like the Koch brothers – to say, "You know what? You yokels stop talking about defaulting on the debt, because I'm going to lose a fortune!"

Envy and greed starve on a steady diet of thanksgiving.

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

Greed, in the end, fails even the greedy.

It is possible to satisfy your need. It is impossible to satisfy your greed.