Greed Quotes - Page 11

One step closer to the end of the world. The one-two combo of corporate greed and organised religion apparently proved to be too much for reason, sanity and compassion.

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

Seek the truly practical life, but seek it in such a way that it does not blind you to the spirit working in it. Seek the spirit, but seek it not out of spiritual greed, but so that you may apply it in the genuinely practical life.

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

The lust of avarice as so totally seized upon mankind that their wealth seems rather to possess them than they possess their wealth.

Greed is normally balanced by fear.

Those who have much are often greedy. Those who have little always share.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Greed is good. Sex is easy. Youth is forever.

We have to change the perception that ANC members are corrupt just because of a few greedy individuals.

The most pitiful human ailment is a birdseed heart.

We have plenty of Confidence in this country, but we are a little short of good men to place our Confidence in.

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

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

We need to learn how to separate need from greed.

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

God promises to meet our needs, not our greeds.

Prudery is a kind of avarice, the worst of all.

avarice breeds envy, a worm that is always gnawing, letting the avaricious enjoy neither their own nor anyone else's good.