Quotes About Greed

As pollution is poison for the climate of the blue planet; similarly, jealousy, greed, and egoism are poison for the climate of thoughts beauty.

Greed is the termite of life; lying is a cancer of character

Most of us are running after money, sex, and power. To some or full extent, bearing the burden of the stress and making the own life terrible.

No one can stop corruption in such a society, where the majority of the lower and upper class choose that as its mindset to do it.

Undoubtedly, interests carry such egomania and greed that denies and even disgraces laws, rules, resolutions, reports, rights, equality, justice, and peace.

Take a good look at the times. It is inevitable that greedy men, who close their eyes and obstruct the tide of the times with their selfishness, will be burned up together with the fallen leaves.

Money. Both cure and cause of so many evils, isn't it?

Polygamy: An endeavour to get more out of life than there is in it.

I, me, my, mine— Each one a danger sign. "That's what the witches used to tell us. Listen for those words, they said. If a person uses them too often or with too much emphasis, then he or she is sinking down into the well of self. And that is a dangerous situation. You may be face-to-face with a greedhead or a power freak.

Hagnon fixes a value to everything. It occurs to Alexander that the man would probably sell his mother for an obol and consider it a deal.

The relationship between money and the possession of things had disappointed her.

Money never goes out of fashion.

Stealing isn't so easy, often it's hard work, otherwise we'd all be doing it.

Money makes a monster of a man, that makes money his master.

When it comes to money nobody should give up anything.

The only thing wealth does for some people is to make them worry about losing it.

Although human life is priceless, we always act as if something had an even greater price than life…. But what is that something?

Could we react as Seneca tried to do? 'I force my mind to pay attention to itself and not to be distracted by anything external. It does not matter what is making a noise outside, so long as there is no turmoil inside – as long as there is no wrangling between desire and fear, as long as greed is not at odds with self-indulgence, one carping at the other. … Only as the mind develops into excellence do we achieve any real tranquillity.

A person who enjoys at the cost of other people's hard work in any profession can be spotted often relishing luxury with own family on the hill station.

A person who has loads of money has many people who only appear to be friends, fans ,followers and even family relatives but hardly any to be called a trustworthy.

A person who is an indolent or a peasant can never lead the intelligent or smart people, but only sows seed of sycophancy weed within the organization to merely feed on own materialistic need and fulfill the greed of a few others at the topmost position and everyone can read clearly that s/he does never heed of the good deed of sincere and hard workers.

A person who is telling only those things that the people are willing to hear for fulfilling their greed is not motivating but misleading them to satiate solely own selfish need.

A person who supports politicians or any political party for merely personal gain is a sycophant; but the people who staunchly support them without knowing them personally as well as their true hidden intention and getting eventually nothing as own profits or benefits are certified stupid.

A person whose life's objective is driven by the desire to only acquire and enjoy material objects is actually negative to the people.