Greed Quotations | Page 6

A great swindle of our time is the assumption that science has made religion obsolete. All science has damaged is the story of Adam and Eve and the story of Jonah and the Whale. Everything else holds up pretty well, particularly lessons about fairness and gentleness. People who find those lessons irrelevant in the twentieth century are simply using science as an excuse for greed and harshness. Science has nothing to do with it, friends.

Envy and greed starve on a steady diet of thanksgiving.

I think there's just too much greed in the world today [and] that's why we have problems.

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.

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

Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's need, but not every man's greed

So much attention is paid to the aggressive sins, such as violence and cruelty and greed with all their tragic effects, that too little attention is paid to the passive sins, such as apathy and laziness, which in the long run can have a more devastating effect.

If your desires be endless, your cares and fears will be so too.

Even the most beautiful scenery is no longer assured of our love after we have lived in it for three months, and some distant coast attracts our avarice: possessions are generally diminished by possession.

In the arts of life main invents nothing; but in the arts of death he outdoes Nature herself, and produces by chemistry and machinery all the slaughter of plague, pestilence and famine. ... There is nothing in Man's industrial machinery but his greed and sloth: his heart is in his weapons.

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

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

Immense wealth, and its lavish expenditure, fill the great house with all that can please the eye, or tempt the taste. Here, appetite, not food, is the great desideratum.

Possessions are usually diminished by possession.

Such gluttony second to none Almost ended fatally When a bone choked a wolf as he gulped what he ate

We risk all in being too greedy.

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

A current pejorative adjective is narcissistic. Generally, a narcissist is anyone better looking than you are, but lately the adective is often applied to those liberals who prefer to improve the lives of others rather than exploit them. Apparently, a concern for others is self-love at its least attractive, while greed is now a sign of the hightest altruism. But then to reverse, periodically, the meanings of words is a very small price to pay for our vast freedom not only to conform but to consume.

If you ask for too much, you lose even that which you have.

However, our task is far from over. Our friends in the other party will never forgive us for our success, and are doing everything in their power to rewrite history. Listening to the liberals, you'd think that the 1980's were the worst period since the Great Depression, filled with suffering and despair. I don't know about you, but I'm getting awfully tired of the whining voices from the White House these days. They're claiming there was a decade of greed and neglect, but you and I know better than that. We were there. (RNC Annual Gala, Feb. 3, 1994)

What kind of society isn't structured on greed?

I wish to become rich, so that I can instruct the people and glorify honest poverty a little, like those kind hearted, fat, benevolent people do.

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.

O painter, take care lest the greed for gain prove a stronger incentive than renown in art, for to gain this renown is a far greater thing than is the renown of riches.

But when I am alone, I do not have the effrontery to consider myself an artist at all, not in the grand old meaning of the word: Giotto, Titian, Rembrandt, Goya were great painters. I am only a public clown-a mountebank. I have understood my time and have exploited the imbecility, the vanity, the greed of my contemporaries. It is a bitter confession, this confession of mine, more painful than it may seem. But at least and at last it does have the merit of being honest.

Unrestrained greed means the ruin of the great woods and the drying up of the sources of the rivers.

The dull, purblind folly of the very rich men, their greed and arrogance, and the corruption in business and politics, have tended to produce a very unhealthy condition.

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

He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.

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

Is it not the excess and greed of this and the neglect of all other things that revolutionizes this constitution too and prepares the way for the necessity of a dictatorship?

We have always known that heedless self interest was bad morals, we now know that it is bad economics.

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

The world is big enough to satisfy everyones needs, but will always be too small to satisfy everyones greed

There are sufficient resources on this planet to answer the needs of all, but not enough to satisfy everyone's greed.

Man is oftentimes weak-minded enough to be caught in the snare of greed and honeyed words.

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

Our non-co-operation is with the system the English have established in India, with the material civilization and its attendant greed and exploitation of the weak.

...unless the exchange be in love and kindly justice, it will but lead some to greed and others to hunger.

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

When we desire or solicit anything, our minds run wholly on the good side or circumstances of it; when it is obtained, our minds run wholly on the bad ones.

Greed is merely a species of nearsightedness.

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.

Nature can provide for the needs of people; [she] can't provide for the greed of people.

World has things which full fill man needs, but not greeds.

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

The earth has enough resources for our need, but not for our greed.

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

There's enough on this planet for everyone's needs but not for everyone's greed.

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

The twin killers of success are impatience and greed.

If I have to build a big company by mistreating other people then the Bible says WOE to me. I don't know what that is, but I don't want any of it.

I could not possibly count the gold-digging ruses of women, Not if I had ten mouths, not if I had ten tongues.

Peace is a virtual, mute, sustained victory of potential powers against probable greeds

The greed for fruit misses the flower.

I fear just one thing : Money! Greed was what motivated Judas to sell Jesus

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.

The greed of gain has no time or limit to its capaciousness. Its one object is to produce and consume. It has pity neither for beautiful nature nor for living human beings. It is ruthlessly ready without a moment's hesitation to crush beauty and life.

Want is a growing giant whom the coat of have was never large enough to cover.

Greed is a sin against God, just as all mortal sins, in as much as man condemns things eternal for the sake of temporal things,

Let us work without desire for name or fame or rule over others. Let us be free from the triple bonds of lust, greed of gain, and anger. And this truth is with us!

Above all, beware of compromises. I do not mean that you are to get into antagonism with anybody, but you have to hold on to your own principles in weal or woe and never adjust them to others "fads" thought the greed of getting supporters.

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.

If you want money more than anything, you'll be bought and sold. If you have a greed for food, you'll be a loaf of bread. This is a subtle truth: Whatever you love, you are.

Laissez-faire, supply and demand-one begins to be weary of all that. Leave all to egotism, to ravenous greed of money, of pleasure, of applause-it is the gospel of despair.

Greed makes man blind and foolish, and makes him an easy prey for death.

Corporately contrived art product replaces inspired intellectual property with ineffectual poperty.

It didn´t occur to me until later that there´s another truth, very simple: greed in a good cause is still greed.

The best way to hate is the worst. 'Tis to find what the hated need, Never mind of what actual worth, And wipe that out of the earth. Let them die of unsatisfied greed....

Though avarice will prevent a man from being necessitously poor, it generally makes him too timorous to be wealthy.

It is amazing how many of the intelligentsia call it "greed" to want to keep what you have earned, but not greed to want to take away what somebody else has earned, and let politicians use it to buy votes.

I have never understood why it is "greed" to want to keep the money you have earned but not greed to want to take somebody else's money.

Elevation of today's generation, if I can make them listen. Prisons ain't what we need, no longer stuck in greed.

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

People always should know better. People don't get - they don't get smarter about things that get as basic as greed.

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

Be fearful when there is greed and be greedy when there is fear.

You have found that you were more secure before you accumulated so much. See what greed has imposed on you: You have filled your house and now you fear burglars. You have hoarded money and lost sleep. See what greed has commanded you: "Do this!" And you did it.

If we got one-tenth of what was promised to us in these acceptance speeches there wouldn't be any inducement to go to heaven.