Quotes About Greed

True happiness comes from having a sense of inner peace and contentment, which in turn must be achieved by cultivating altruism, love and compassion, and by eliminating anger, selfishness and greed.

Five enemies of peace inhabit with us - avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride; if these were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace.

I contemplated my greed for peace. And I did not seek tranquillity anymore.

It is doubly chimerical to build peace on economic foundations which, in turn, rest on the systematic cultivation of greed and envy, the very forces which drive men into conflict.

Avarice seems to have so pervaded our vital principles as to battle all hopes of a remedy but for peace and plenty.

Walker's Law: There are few things made harder in this world by having money.

That poverty is no disaster is understood by everyone who has not yet succumbed to the madness of greed and luxury that turns everything topsy-turvy.

Be contented with the things of the world. Develop greed for God.

When the hatred stops will the love begin? When there is no more greed will there then be peace?

Love of the simple is all that I need, I've no time for schism or lovers of greed.

Responsible people work, earn, save, invest, make things better for self & family. Lefties call that "greed."

The problem of social organization is how to set up an arrangement under which greed will do the least harm, capitalism is that kind of a system.

If you wish to make Pythocles rich, do not add to his store of money, but subtract from his desires.

There was no safety. There was no pride. All there was, was money. Everything became money, and money became everything. Money treated us as if we were things, and we died.

Mr. Greed, why do you have to own everything that you see?

Money is the most powerful and popular god because everybody is praying for money.

Some wear greed as a fine suit of clothes. But you, my son, bear its stamp ever more poorly.

Enough is never enough.

The creed of greed:Great Revenue Every Everlasting Day.(IN BANKS WE TRUST)

Why be greedy when you can have it all.

I do not love money to chase it.

The greed of power drowns our ethics.

If lying was an asset, the world would have been full of rich people

I do not want to grow for the sake of growth. Never will I be blind by greed.