Greed Quotes

Doing nothing for others is the undoing of ourselves.

We stress humanity, and this is done at considerable cost. We can't have a lot of dramatics that other shows get away with - promiscuity, greed, jealousy. None of those have a place in 'Star Trek.'

We risk all in being too greedy.

There is a sufficiency in the world for man's need but not for man's greed.

Don’t let the dark clouds of greed confuse you

If you love peace, then hate injustice, hate tyranny, hate greed � but hate these things in yourself, not in another.

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

Let me tell you, Cassius, you yourself are much condemned to have an itching palm.

What thrust us into war were not Hitler's political teachings: the cause, this time, was his successful attempt to establish a new economy. The causes of the war were: envy, greed, and fear.

Whatever posessions and objects of its desires the lower self may obtain, it hangs on to them, refusing to let them go out of greed for more, or out of fear of poverty and need.

Going into our fear and confronting our greed, our weaknesses, our neediness is the way out. And the way out is through the mind, by choosing our thoughts.

There is a very fine line between listening and stalking.

The Enron scandal calls into question the integrity of the entire capitalist system, which previously we assumed was based on honest, straightforward greed.

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.

The curse of the romantic is a greed for dreams, an intensity of expectation that, in the end, diminishes the reality.

By simple mathematics giving is key to the world you seek to live in. If I take I alone gain. If I give or share then two at least are enriched.

There is enough for the need of everyone in this world, but not for the greed of everyone.

People often grudge others what they cannot enjoy themselves.

Greed, like the love of comfort, is a kind of fear.

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

Let us again clothe ourselves with these proved and sterling virtues - honesty, truthfulness, chastity, sobriety, temperance, industry, and thrift; let us discard all covetousness and greed.

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

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

Yet avarice is numbered among the sins, but stupidity omitted.

Greed is good to most economists. It's greed that makes people work harder, be more productive and helps the economy grow.

Greed is normally balanced by fear.

The discovery of America was the occasion of the greatest outburst of cruelty and reckless greed known in history.

Do you want to know the cause of war? It is capitalism, greed, the dirty hunger for dollars. Take away the capitalist and you will sweep war from the earth.

If parasitism, favoritism, corruption, and greed for the unearned did not exist, a mixed economy would bring them into existence.

Wars and revolutions and battles are due simply and solely to the body and its desires.

If men could regard the events of their own lives with more open minds, they would frequently discover that they did not really desire the things they failed to obtain.

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

The most pitiful human ailment is a birdseed heart.

The avarice person is ever in want; let your desired aim have a fixed limit.

For greed, all nature is too little.

The enjoyment of power inevitably corrupts the judgment of reason, and perverts its liberty.

There are many winds full of anger, and lust and greed. They move the rubbish around, but the solid mountain of our true nature stays where it's always been.

Spinning yarns is a protection against the nuttiness... the greed, the hate all around us.

The man who pets a lion may tame it, but the man who coddles the body makes it ravenous.

I still play music for the same reasons as when I first started; for the energy, the feeling, the interaction with others. Not for the money, ego or greed.

Human dignity can be achieved only in the field of ethics, and ethical achievement is measured by the degree in which our actions are governed by compassion and love, not by greed and aggressiveness.

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.

We need to learn how to separate need from greed.

Greedhas no satiation point, since its consummation does not fill the inner emptiness, boredom, loneliness, and depression it is meant to overcome.

What kind of society isn't structured on greed?

My major problem with the world is a problem of scarcity in the midst of plenty ... of people starving while there are unused resources ... people having skills which are not being used.

The fact that people will be full of greed, fear, or folly is predictable. The sequence is not predictable.

Avarice has ruined more souls than extravagance.

TARIFF, n. A scale of taxes on imports, designed to protect the domestic producer against the greed of his consumer.

The covetous man pines in plenty, like Tantalus up to the chin in water, and yet thirsty.