Top 1134 Greed Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

You can't take anything with you. So I don't understand this whole psychotic area of greed, I don't get it.

Classism and greed are making insignificant all the other kinds of isms.

The essence of good advertising is not to inspire hope, but to create greed.

Selfishness and greed, individual or national, cause most of our troubles.

From the first day to this, sheer greed was the driving spirit of civilization.

Lesson number one: Don't underestimate the other guy's greed.

Ignorance, poverty, and greed must disappear so that light can prevail in all places.

In the race of men is much greed and envy; but of truth, little.

Greed is at the bottom of most of the wrong-doing with which government has to deal.

We're all basically made of the same stuff: generosity and selfishness, goodness and greed.

The Democratic Party needs to take a stand against corporate greed.

It's impossible to translate Wall Street greed into one or two demands.

People's lives are forever controlled by two emotions: fear and greed.

Nothing makes us more vulnerable than loneliness except greed.

Nothing destroys one's respect in the hearts of others more than greed.

Harveys opened against the backdrop of Thatcher's greed culture.

One of the key problems of the business world is that greed has become culturally acceptable.

Spirituality for the most part is a mask worn by idleness, arrogance and greed.

Corporate greed in New York won. It suffocated anything interesting out of the city.

You have to remove your human sentiment when it comes to greed and the accumulation of wealth.

Friendship, obligation and greed are not good enough reasons to write anything.

Capitalism: Nothing so mean could be right. Greed is the ugliest of the capital sins.

Sex, greed, debauchery - I love it. Brian Azzarello is brilliant.

The earth has everything for all human needs, but nothing for his greed.

Politics may come and go, but Greed goes on forever.

It's all about greed and money and it's the driving force in Hollywood.

Someone who wants to succeed has to overcome his own greed first

Revolt is the mirror in which greed is forced to see itself.

The only two things you can truly depend upon are gravity and greed.

There is no force more potent in the modern world than stupidity fueled by greed.

A victim of your own greed, wallowing in the muck of avarice.

The market is a very emotional place that appeals to fear and greed.

For total greed, rapacity, heartlessness, and irresponsibility there is nothing to match a nation.

It's not competition and greed that makes the world go around, it's cooperating and caring

Greed has been severely underestimated and denigrated - unfairly so, in my opinion.

What can defeat greed, technological superiority, and legal lawlessness ... is discipline, consciousness, and unity.

Curst greed of gold, what crimes thy tyrant power has caused.

Through the machineries of greed, pettiness, and the abuse of power, love occurs.

To justify and extol human greed and egotism is to my mind not only immoral, but evil.

The only thing that stands between corporate greed and poverty is the union.

The role of government is to create responsible greed to keep boundaries around what people do.

I just want people to see what I deem as a war for no reason, but only for greed.

Altruism is a fine motive, but if you want results, greed works much better.

Our country, our economy - don't doubt me on this - our economy is based on capitalism. Barack Obama's stated reason for being inspired by Reverend Wright was his speech, 'White man's greed runs a world in need.' That inspired Obama, 'White man's greed runs a world in need.' That's the real American dream. Working hard you will get ahead. But you can't have that if you want to create a permanent underclass. You simply cannot have people getting ahead. It destroys the whole notion of a permanent underclass.

Love of the simple is all that I need, I've no time for schism or lovers of greed.

Money is therefore not only the object but also the fountainhead of greed.

Three great forces rule the world: stupidity, fear and greed.

We all seem to be about aggression and greed. It's a massive pressure that affects us all.

Privacy is not for sale, and human rights should not be compromised out of fear or greed.

I contemplated my greed for peace. And I did not seek tranquillity anymore.

The only engine big enough to impact Mother Nature is Father Greed.

Greed has taken the whole universe, and nobody is worried about their soul.

Fear and greed are probably the worst emotions to have in connection with the purchase and sale of stocks.

If the heart is fed by love, the greed for pleasure would disappear.

Share prices follow the theorem: hope divided by fear minus greed.

Greed and selfishness do seem to be central motivators of mankind.

I was Amazement--I was Desire--I was Ecstasy and Rapture and the slightest bit of Greed.

America needs young people to be inspired to choose sacrifice over greed.

The top two ways to destroy success are greed and impatience

He grinned. “I was trying to remember all the deadly sins the other day,” he said. “Greed,envy, gluttony, irony, pedantry…” “I’m pretty sure irony isn’t a deadly sin.” “I’m pretty sure it is.” “Lust,” she said. “Lust is a deadly sin.” “And spanking.” “I think that falls under lust.” “I think it should have its own category,” said Jace. “Greed, envy, gluttony, irony, pedantry, lust, and spanking.