Best 1065 quotes in «greed quotes» category

The love for material things grows like a fungus in the soul and destroys the loveliness of the human heart utterly.

The love of nature is a passion for those in whom it once lodges. It can never be quenched. It cannot change. It is a furious, burning, physical greed, as well as a state of mystical exaltation. It will have its own.

The lusts and greeds of the body scandalize the Soul; but it has to come to heel.

The main source of our wealth is goodness. The affections and the generous qualities that God admires in a world full of greed.

The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.

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

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

The mark of genius is an incessant activity of mind. Genius is a spiritual greed.

The media have just buried the last yuppie, a pathetic creature who had not heard the news that the great pendulum of public consciousness has just swung from Greed to Compassion and from Tex-Mex to meatballs

The miser is as much in want of what he has as of what he has not.

The more our hearts and minds are turned to assisting others less fortunate than we, the more we will avoid the spiritually cankering effects that result from greed, selfishness and overindulgence.

The most pitiful human ailment is a birdseed heart.

The music industry's actions at the time of 9/11 and since have been actions driven by patriotism in most instances, and greed and stupidity to a lesser degree. Sounds like real life doesn't it?

The nature of any human being, certainly anyone on Wall Street, is 'the better deal you give the customer, the worse deal it is for you'.

The only thing wrong with the NBA - or any other professional sport, for that matter - is a wild epidemic of Dumbness and overweening Greed. There is no Mystery about it, and no need to change any rules.

The original sin of Republicans is greed. Everyone understands greed. Everybody wants to get theirs. The original sin of Democrats is pity. Greed is more attractive, and a better motivator, than pity.

The party which is out sees nothing but graft and incapacity in the party which is in; and the party which is in sees nothing but greed and animosity in the party which is out.

The organization and constant onward sweep of this movement exemplifies the resentment of the many toward the selfishness, greed and the neglect of the few.

The problem of social organization is how to set up an arrangement under which greed will do the least harm, capitalism is that kind of a system.

The poor man wants many things; the covetous man, all.

The possession of power over others is inherently destructive both to the possessor of the power and to those over whom it is exercised.

The privileged have regularly invited their own destruction with their greed.

The powerful have no monopoly on greed, hatred, fear, or ignorance.

The price of peace is to abandon greed and replace it with giving, so that none will be spiritually injured by having more than they need while others in the world still have less than they need.

The Reagan-Bush years have exalted private gain over public obligation, special interests over the common good, wealth and fame over work and family. The 1980s ushered in a Gilded Age of greed and selfishness, of irresponsibility and excess, and of neglect.

There are a lot of people who are doing wonderful things, quietly, with no motive of greed, or hostility toward other people, or delusions of superiority.

There are parallels between the 1960s and now, because during the 1960s, people were being slaughtered, their lives were being taken, there was violence, greed, drugs were rising - just all of this. And my uncle was saying, you've got to come back to faith, hope and love. Now, you get the translation and say faith, hope and charity - faith, hope and love.

There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up.

There are some souls so base and filthy that they love gain and interest as noble souls love fame and virtue, knowing one pleasure only, that of making money or of not losing it; anxious and avid for their ten per cent; entirely preoccupied with what is owed them; forever concerned about the depreciation or discredit of money; buried, and as it were engulfed, amid contracts, title-deeds and parchments. Such people are neither parents, friends, citizens or Christians, nor, perhaps, even men; they merely have money.

There are so many ways a family can unravel. All it takes is a tiny slash of selfishness, a rip of greed, a puncture of bad luck. And yet, woven tightly, family can be the strongest bond imaginable.

The reason the Christians have murdered on such a vast scale and killed anyone and everyone in their way is purely and simply greed.

There are three all-powerful evils: lust, anger and greed.

The reason why we have to acquire wealth is the body, because we are slaves in its service.

There is a very fine line between love and nausea.

There is a very fine line between listening and stalking.

There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it.

There is much suffering in the world - physical, material, mental. The suffering of some can be blamed on the greed of others. The material and physical suffering is suffering from hunger, from homelessness, from all kinds of diseases. But the greatest suffering is being lonely, feeling unloved, having no one. I have come more and more to realize that it is being unwanted that is the worst disease that any human being can ever experience.

There is no greater fault than sensual indulgence. There is no greater misfortune than malcontent. There is no greater calamity than greed.

There is no calamity greater than lavish desires. There is no greater guilt than discontent. And there is no greater disaster than greed.

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

There will be people who will teach for the sake of greed or for the sake of ego. So watch their lives. Do they look and act like Jesus?

There is no vice which mankind carries to such wild extremes as that of avarice.

There is no such thing as material covetousness. All covetousness is spiritual. ...Any so-called material thing that you want is merely a symbol: you want it not for itself, but because it will content your spirit for the moment.

The top two ways to destroy success are greed and impatience

The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury.

The saving of labour of the individual should be the object and honest humanitarian considerations, and not greed, the motive.

... these are the two factors that lead to the destruction of our environment: money and time-or to say it another way, greed and haste. The question is, or seems to be, are we going to have an immediate profit and an immediate saving of time, or are we going to do what we really should do as God's children?

The self-despisers are less intent on their own increase than on the diminution of others. Where self-esteem is unobtainable, envy takes the place of greed.

The true antidote to greed is contentment. If you have a strong sense of contentment, it doesn't matter whether you obtain the object of your desire or not. Either way, you are still content.

the truly covetous have never enough!