Quotes About Greed

To be mindful of social phenomena is thus to identify more clearly hatred, greed, and delusion as well as the seeds of wisdom and compassion both around us and in us. (p. 52)

Italians know about human nature - they understand human nature perhaps better than anyone else does. They know that people are weak and greedy and lazy and dishonest and they just try to make the best of it to work around it.

I'm not against the corporations. They are our wealth. But they are getting too greedy. I don't want to do away with corporations. I want them to make our cars, however, not our laws.

Money isn't the root of all evil; the love of money isn't the root of all evil; the NEED for money is the root of all evil.

Money is only congealed snow.

If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to.

In Zen training the hungry ghost realm ... presents as the attempt to "get" emptiness. "I needed so much to have nothing to touch," sings Leonard Cohen, "I've always been greedy this way.

There's nothing the bond ghouls hate more than real wage increases for anyone but themselves.

We are not only tempted by wealth, we are tempted to blame wealth.

This is one of the oldest tricks in the book for sinful leaders: once you get into power, take whatever you can from the people, but all in the name of a higher good. This higher good may be God, or patriotism, or humanistic brotherhood, or democracy, but what all such power-abusers really want is more power for themselves.

I meant no harm I most truly did not, but I had to grow bigger so bigger I got. I biggered my factory, I biggered my roads, I biggered the wagons, I biggered the loads, of the Thneeds I shipped out I was shipping them forth from the South, to the East, to the West. To the North, I went right on biggering selling more thneeds. And I biggered my money which everyone needs.

Niggas wit no money act like money isnt everything.

They be starin at the money like its unfamiliar.

Materialism—an attachment to physical goods beyond their practical value—was a trap; a chain to ensnare the foolish with their own greed.

Corruption, my boy, makes the world go round.

Pride, Envy, and Avarice are the three sparks that have set these hearts on fire.

It is preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly.

The most fateful change that unfolded during the past three decades was not an increase in greed. It was the expansion of markets, and of market values, into spheres of life where they don't belong.

Unfortunately, the only meaning that society attributes to life today is an opportunity to make money.

Wealth I desire to have; but wrongfully to get it, I do not wish.

If you view life as a gold rush, you're going to end up worshiping a golden calf.

Oh blind! Oh ignorant, self-seeking cupidity which spurs us so in the short mortal life and steeps us so through all eternity!

To have and to want more that is life.

After the demands of the ego and its greed surrendered, the struggle for fulfillment of personal desires lessens; life takes on a new zest like a breath of fresh air.