Quotes About Greed

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Money holds terrible power when it is loved

the invisible dangers in a normal day wrought by overactive technology, fueled by greed. Soon we'll have a whole world meeting for the purpose of saying, "Oops. What should we do?

Like flowing water, money and possessions are less useful when they're hoarded.

Your ego is a wonderful servant, but it's a terrible master—because the only thing your ego ever wants is reward, reward, and more reward. And since there's never enough reward to satisfy, your ego will always be disappointed. Left unmanaged, that kind of disappointment will rot you from the inside out. An unchecked ego is what the Buddhists call "a hungry ghost"—forever famished, eternally howling with need and greed.

An unchecked ego is what the Buddhists call "a hungry ghost"—forever famished, eternally howling with need and greed.

It all boils down to money and power and to hell with the meadow that's flattened while the elephants and donkeys dance for dollars.

We all know how ruthlessly these American millionaires crush their rivals as they climb to power.

None wished to appear greedy, or obsessed by food; but food made the breaks in the day, and menus offered a little choosing, and satisfactions and disappointments, as once life had.

What is achieved in blaming a man for being selfish and greedy if he acts under the influence of a social environment and education which teach him that he is an animal and that selfishness and greediness are of the essence of his nature?

A greedy man will always find himself in the shackles of humility.

A Divine rule can be established only by a man, who, where justice and equity are required, neither feels deficient nor weak and who is not greedy and avaricious.

Wealth is the fountain head of passions.

He who is greedy is disgraced; he who discloses his hardship will always be humiliated; he who has no control over his tongue will often have to face discomfort.

Hand me the world on a silver platter, and what good would it be?

Pride, envy, avarice -- these are the sparks have set on fire the souls of man.

Give a bull grass, sweet water and a willing heifer and he is happy. But a man is never content. If no gadflies of worry exist he will invent them.

We've got an acquisitive gene. We want and want, and there's no way around it.

There are six reasons anyone does anything: Love. Faith. Greed. Boredom. Fear..." he said, ticking them off on his fingers; but he lingered on the last, drawing a deep breath before he said, "Revenge.

Everything I had been taught to regard as a vice - and I still regard them as vices - under Thatcherism was in fact a virtue: Greed, selfishness, no care for the weaker, sharp elbows, sharp knees.

I think that what went wrong with religion is the same thing that went wrong with politics. Is that it became too money based and too controlling. It's just a weakness that we human beings have for control - we want one thing and then we want more and then we want more.

Wars are caused by undefended wealth.

He does not possess wealth; it possesses him.

The lust of avarice as so totally seized upon mankind that their wealth seems rather to possess them than they possess their wealth.