A Quote by Erich Fromm
Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction.
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Greed is supported by an endless cast of what-ifs. Greedy people can never have enough to satisfy the need they feel in light of every conceivable eventuality.
The attempt to satisfy greed is like drinking salty water when thirsty.
When lost in greed we look outward rather than inward for satisfaction, yet we never find enough to fill the emptiness we wish to escape.
The real hunger we feel is for knowledge of our true nature.
Work without faith is like an attempt to reach the bottom of a bottomless pit.
I had the feeling of slipping down a smooth bottomless pit. It had nothing to do with Breuer and the people. It had nothing to do with Pat even. It was the melancholy secret that reality can arouse desires but never satisfy them; that love begins with a human being but does not end in him; and that everything can be there: a human being, love, happiness, life — and that yet in some terrible way it is always too little, and grows ever less the more it seems.
We already have - thanks to technology, development, skills, the efficiency of our work - enough resources to satisfy all human needs. But we don't have enough resources, and we are unlikely ever to have, to satisfy human greed.
Law is a bottomless pit.
They have no idea what a bottomless pit of misery I am.
UN goodwill may be a bottomless pit but it's by no means limitless.
Space is not only high, it's low. It's a bottomless pit.
Other people have shrubbery in their gardens. You have a bottomless pit.
A bottomless pit of violence, a Tower of Babel where all are speakers and no hearers.
Law is a Bottomless-Pit, it is a Cormorant, a Harpy, that devours every thing.
I have plenty of vanity in my life. I want to look pretty in the world. But it can be this bottomless pit.
Greed is a sin because humans are social creatures. And they simply cannot survive without the opposite of greed, which is cooperation.
The world is big enough to satisfy everyones needs, but will always be too small to satisfy everyones greed
Ambition is the desire to go forward and improve one's condition. It is a burning flame that lights up the life of the individual and makes him see himself in another state. To be ambitious is to be great in mind and soul. To want that which is worth while and strive for it. To go on without looking back, reaching to that which gives satisfaction.
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