Quotes About Greed

Not he who has little but he who wishes more is poor.

Earthly possessions dazzle our eyes and delude us into thinking that they can provide security and freedom from anxiety. Yet all the time they are the very source of anxiety.

The end of knowledge is wisdom The end of culture is perfection The end of wisdom is freedom The end of education is character. And character consists of eagerness to renounce one's selfish greed.

I cling like a miser to the freedom that disappears as soon as there is an excess of things.

If thou wilt lend this money, lend it not As to thy friends; for when did friendship take A breed for barren metal of his friend?

Liars; those people who hide behind the truth for no real reason but for their own selfish gain.

When all you focus on is yourself, you'll always want more, and you'll never be satisfied with what you have.

The human species is its own enemy. We're our own demise. Greed and self interest is our bondage.

Thou shalt not steal; an empty feat, When its so lucrative to cheat

They are all but stomachs, and we all but food; They eat us hungerly, and when they are full, They belch us

Freedom is really not about possessing anything, but is actually being without; without hatred, without clinging, violence, greed, and so on. Losing everything you've managed to accumulate until what's always been there remains.

Behind every successful fortune there is a crime.

Lawyers can steal more money with a briefcase than a thousand men with guns and masks.

There is no more destructive force in human affairs -- not greed, not hatred -- than the desire to have been right. Non-attachment to possessions is trivial when compared with non-attachment to opinions.

Peníze ti nutn? nezaru?í moc, ale moc ti vždycky p?inese peníze.

Thirty bucks a share makes me a billionaire—and that's the ticket to happiness! A billion dollars buys me everything I ever wanted! … Maybe even love … Yeah, Lou, geeks need love, too.

the capital commandments of self-interest, self-importance, self-enrichment, and self-perpetuation.

Critique of the 1 percent's domination predates, it should be recalled, the "Occupy" movement's popularizing of the notion. In fact, Martin Luther King, Jr. remarked often on the notion of the 1 percent in his early speeches of the 1950s: "They tell me that one tenth of one percent of the population controls more than forty percent of the wealth. Oh America, how often have you taken necessities from the masses to give luxury to the classes.

Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's need, but not every man's greed. Gandhi

But the comfortable life is a slippery slope toward the consumer life.

The greatest conspiracy on the planet is that we need to oppress, kill, and pollute in order to get our needs met

instead of purifying my character I was multiplying my wants.

The comfortable life is a slippery slope toward the consumer life.

Putting your boot on another man's head and stealing him blind, until someone with a bigger boot comes along to kick you out of the way?