Greed Quotes

For greed all nature is too little.

The world is burning in the fire of desire, in greed, arrogance and excessive ego.

The ignorant mind, with its infinite afflictions, passions, and evils, is rooted in the three poisons. Greed, anger, and delusion.

The greatest barrier to peace in our world today is greed and selfishness in the human heart. Individual greed opens the way to national greed. This leads to divisiveness and conflict among people and nations. Tragically, this has caused so much bloodshed and needless human suffering.

If, in the present chaotic and shameful struggle for existence, when organized society offers a premium on greed, cruelty, and deceit, men can be found who stand aloof and almost alone in their determination to work for good rather than gold, who suffer want and persecution rather than desert principle, who can bravely walk to the scaffold for the good they can do humanity, what may we expect from men when freed from the grinding necessity of selling the better part of themselves for bread?

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

If we go on the way we have, the fault is our greed and if we are not willing to change, we will disappear from the face of the globe, to be replaced by the insect.

Hell has three gates: lust, anger, and greed.

The real primary diseases of man are such defects as pride, cruelty, hate, self-love, ignorance, instability and greed; and each of these, if considered, will be found to be adverse to Unity.

From top to bottom of the ladder, greed is aroused without knowing where to find ultimate foothold. Nothing can calm it, since its goal is far beyond all it can attain. Reality seems valueless by comparison with the dreams of fevered imaginations; reality is therefore abandoned.

The commission, with this order, has turned the people's public interest commission into an instrument of corporate greed.

The dynamo of our economic system is self-interest which may range from mere petty greed to admirable types of self-expression.

This case is really about avarice, it's about greed, and it's about human frailty.

The greed is back, that's always under the surface. The speculation is back and people are trying to get in before [the stock triples].

The circle of greed has to stop.

The markets are always on the side of exuberance or fear. It's fear and greed. Right now greed has the better of it, which is rather nice (for investors) as long as it doesn't get out of hand.

Executives have richly rewarded themselves. In medieval times, people guilty of this kind of greed would have been boiled in oil.

His good deeds came out. I pointed out in closing argument that that is inconsistent with greed. So I really believe justice was done.

If we go on the way we have, the fault is our greed [and] if we are not willing [to change], we will disappear from the face of the globe, to be replaced by the insect.

The report has shown there is a culture of greed in the Liberal Party.

As long as greed, stupidity and cowardice remain a part of the human condition, there will be a constituency for Democrats.

This isn't a matter of greed -- this is a matter of survival.

This thing has taken on greed, panic and fear. Banks and trading companies are getting hammered and their business are doing well in this economy.

What I've encountered is a culture of greed and deception.

I think corporate greed is terrible. Someone like me is on social security and everything goes up but your paycheck.