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Giving is a proof that you have conquered greed.

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.

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

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.

God promises to meet our needs, not our greeds.

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, 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, 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.

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.

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 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

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.

He who distinguishes the true savor of his food can never be a glutton; he who does not cannot be otherwise.

He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.

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

How could sufferings be relieved through purification? To know the Path is to get lost at the ford. Indeed, sickness comes from worldly love And poverty begins with the pursuit of greed.

Hope drives us to invent new fixes for old messes, which in turn create ever more dangerous messes. Hope elects the politician with the biggest empty promise; and as any stockbroker or lottery seller knows, most of us will take a slim hope over prudent and predictable frugality. Hope, like greed, fuels the engine of capitalism.

How can I be secure? Through amassing wealth beyond all measure? No. And what's beyond measure? That's a sickness. That's a trap. There is no measure. Only greed.

However destructive may be the policies of the government and the methods and products of the corporations, the root of the problem is always found to be found in private life. We must learn to see that every problem that concerns us as conservationists always leads straight to the question of how we live. The world is being destroyed, no doubt about it, by the greed of the rich and powerful. It is also being destroyed by popular demand.

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.

How shrunk, how dwindled, in our times Creation's mighty seed - For Man has broke the Fellowship With murder, lust, and greed.

Human beings may well be unable to break free of the dictatorship of greed that spreads like a miasma over the world, but no longer will we be an inarticulate and ignorant humanity, confused by our enslavement to superior cruelty and weaponry.