Best 1065 quotes in «greed quotes» category

Foolish people are never harmless. Stupidity accounts for as many crimes as anger and greed.

For greed, all nature is too little.

For top executives to award themselves these kinds of compensation packages in the midst of this economic crisis isn't just bad taste, it's bad strategy, and I will not tolerate it as president.

For too long, humanity has acted with an outrageous lack of responsibility. We wanted everything for ourselves: greed, really. We failed to look at the overall picture and did not take into consideration those with whom we share the world.

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

For what will it profit men that a more prudent distribution and use of riches make it possible for them to gain even the whole world, if thereby they suffer the loss of their own souls? What will it profit to teach them sound principles in economics, if they permit themselves to be so swept away by selfishness, by unbridled and sordid greed, that hearing the commandments of the Lord, they do all things contrary.

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

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

Giving with glad and generous hearts has a way of routing out the tough old miser within us. Even the poor need to know that they can give. Just the very act of letting go of money, or some other treasure, does something within us. It destroys the demon greed.

Gambling operates under the premise that greed can be satisfied by luck.

Giving is a proof that you have conquered greed.

Greed, accident, or malice may have harmful results, but, barring something truly apocalyptic, a resilient system can absorb such results without its overall health being threatened.

God can rid your heart of greed, but it's your responsibility to remove yourself from situations that promote greediness.

God promises to meet our needs, not our greeds.

Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right, greed works.

Greed has increasingly become a virtue among Wall Street bankers and corporate CEOs in the U.S. Nowhere else in the world do CEOs insist on receiving compensation as high compared to what their employees earn.

Greed has replaced religion as the national religion, and with greed comes envy.

Greed is gross. Greed is vile. Greed sucks.

Greed is really the religion of vulgarity.

Greed is the inventor of injustice as well as the current enforcer.

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

Greed can overtake smart.

Greed is a fat demon with a small mouth and whatever you feed it is never enough.

Greed is costly. Assembled fortunes are lost.

Greed is permanent slavery

Greed is too flimsy to flawed

God knows greed won't vanish. Neither will hatred or chauvanism. Human nature is a stubborn thing. But it isn't beyond control. Even if our core impulses can;t be banished, they can be tempered and redirected.

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.

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

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

Greed is an imperfection that defiles the mind; hate is an imperfection that defiles the mind; delusion is an imperfection that defiles the mind.

Greed is normally balanced by fear.

Greed and globalization aren't just America's fault.

Greed (as Ling): You humans always get all "holier-than-thou" when it comes to this stuff... I really don't get you. Edward: It's called having integrity. You should try it sometime

Greed, desire, ambition, jealousy, possessiveness, domination - you have to watch everything. And they are all interconnected, remember. If greed disappears, then anger will disappear. If anger disappears, jealousy will disappear. If jealousy disappears, violence will disappear. If violence disappears, possessiveness will disappear. They are all intertwined. In fact, they are spokes of the same wheel, and the hub that supports them all is the ego. So watch the ways of the ego.

Greed, for lack of a better word, is good.

Greed in human nature may now come near to enslaving all humanity by means of the Machine - so fast and far has progress gone with it. This will be evident to anyone who stops to study the modern mechanistic Moloch and takes time to view it in its larger aspects.

Greed is merely a species of nearsightedness.

Greed is so destructive. It destroys everything.

Greed may not be good, but it’s not so bad either. You humans think greed is just for money or power, but everyone wants something they can’t have.

Greed probably figures in my intellectual life as well, as I attempt to absorb a massive amount of information with consequent mental indigestion.

Greed's worst point is its ingratitude.

Greed, the desire to incorporate, is magnified and fed back to produce the pretan realms, just as hate creates the hells.

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

Greed has poisoned men's souls, has barricaded the world with hate, has goose-stepped us into misery and bloodshed.

Greed is good! Greed is right! Greed works! Greed will save the U.S.A.!

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

Greed, it ain't going anywhere. They should have that in a big billboard across Times Square. Without people you're nothing.

Greed stains our culture, soaks our sensibilities and has replaced grace as a sign of our intimacy with the divine.

He was seized and dragged off to King Philip, and being asked who he was, replied, "A spy upon your insatiable greed.