Greed Quotes - Page 12

For greed, all nature is too little.

Those are greedy of praise prove that they are poor in merit.

Purposeless activity may be a phase of death.

When there is firm conquest over covetousness, they who have conquered it wake up to the how and why of life.

What kind of society isn't structured on greed?

In plain Truth, it is no Want, but rather Abundance that creates Avarice.

Our incredible bewilderment (wilderness separation) blinds us from seeing that our many personal and global problems primarily result from our assault of and separation from the natural creation process within and around us. Our estrangement from nature leaves us wanting,and when we want there is never enough. Our insatiable wanting is called greed. It is a major source of our destructive dependencies and violence.

The moral angle to the foreclosure crisis - and, of course, in capitalism we're not supposed to be concerned with the moral stuff, but let's mention it anyway - shows a culture that is slowly giving in to a futuristic nightmare ideology of computerized greed and unchecked financial violence.

No purpose intervenes between I and You, no greed and no anticipation; and longing itself is changed as it plunges from the dream into appearance. Every means is an obstacle. Only where all means have disintegrated encounters occur.

But we still find the world astounding, we can't get enough of it; even as it shrivels, even as its many lights flicker and are extinguished (the tigers, the leopard frogs, the plunging dolphin flukes), flicker and are extinguished, by us, by us, we gaze and gaze. Where do you draw the line, between love and greed? We never did know, we always wanted more. We want to take it all in, for one last time, we want to eat the world with our eyes.

There is always enough for the needy, there is never enough for the greedy.

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

I still play music for the same reasons as when I first started; for the energy, the feeling, the interaction with others. Not for the money, ego or greed.

The dynamo of our economic system is self-interest which may range from mere petty greed to admirable types of self-expression.

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

We all seem to be about aggression and greed. It's a massive pressure that affects us all.

Of myself I must say this, I never was any greedy, scraping grasper, nor a strait fast-holding prince, nor yet a master; my heart was never set on worldly goods, but only for my subjects' good.

It was not curiosity that killed the goose who laid the golden egg, but an insatiable greed that devoured common sense.

The Master said, “If your conduct is determined solely by considerations of profit you will arouse great resentment.

If a few companies were less greedy, the people at the bottom woud have a lot more.

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.

Our greed comes from our fear that we will not have enough - whether it is money or love that we grasp. Yoga teaches us to let go of these fears and so to realize the abundance around us and within us.

Since time immemorial and pre-industrial, 'greed' has been the accusation hurled at the rich by the concrete-bound illiterates who were unable to conceive of the source of wealth or of the motivation of those who produce it.

TARIFF, n. A scale of taxes on imports, designed to protect the domestic producer against the greed of his consumer.

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.