Quotes About Greed

Greed is so destructive. It destroys everything.

Greed is a bottomless bit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction.

The richest of the rich is one who is not a prisoner to greed.

Fraud is the daughter of greed.

Then Jesus said to them, "Watch out! Be on your guard against all kinds of greed; life does not consist in an abundance of possessions."

As long as greed is stronger than compassion, there will always be suffering.

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

In a world of lunacy, Violence, stupidity, greed…it is a good life.

I have never understood why it is "greed" to want to keep the money you have earned but to greed to want to take somebody else's money.

"Whoever loves money never has money enough; whoever loves wealth is never satisfied with his income. This too is meaningless."

blackmail. The age-old path to the land of milk and honey. The one sure way of being paid for doing nothing.

Amid the most mercenary ages it is but a secondary sort of admiration that is bestowed upon magnificence.

Avarice, with all its black attendants, is confessedly a crime of old age, and seldom arrives at maturity till accompanied with gray hairs.

Nothing makes us more vulnerable than loneliness except greed.

They like to take all this money from sin, build big universities to study in, sing Amazing Grace all the way to the Swiss banks.

Do not follow vain desires; for verily he who prospers is preserved from lust, greed and anger.

Meditation is the alchemy of transforming. The unconscious into the conscious. It gives you a tremendous power, Far greater than anger, greed and lust.

Scared for health, afraid of death, bored, dissatisfied, vengeful, greedy, ignorant, and gullible—these are the qualities of the ideal consumer. Can we imagine a way of education that would turn passive consumers into active and informed critics, capable of using their own minds in their own defense?

An infinitely greedy sovereign is afoot in the universe, staking his claims.

The idea was that when faced with abundance one should consume abundantly -an idea that has survived to become the basis of our present economy. It is neither natural nor civilized, and even from a practical point of view it is to the last degree brutalizing and stupid.

We need to confront honestly the issue of scale. Bigness has a charm and a drama that are seductive, especially to politicians and financiers; but bigness promotes greed, indifference, and damage, and often bigness is not necessary. You may need a large corporation to run an airline or to manufacture cars, but you don't need a large corporation to raise a chicken or a hog. You don't need a large corporation to process local food or local timber and market it locally.

Except to the insane narrow-mindedness of industrial economics, selfishness does not pay.

He loved to handle cash, and he drove himself and all that belonged to him in the direction of money as if it were as far off as heaven and as if he were running out of time;

It is altogether conceivable that we may go right along with this business of "business," with our curious religious faith in technological progress, with our glorification of our own greed and violence always rationalized by our indignation at the greed and violence of others, until our land, our world, and ourselves are utterly destroyed.