Greed Quotes - Page 17

I am not a greedy person except about flowers and plants, and then I become fanatically greedy.

Gifts are like fish-hooks; for who is not aware that the greedy char is deceived by the fly which he swallows?

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

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

I'm so greedy, I'm hungry, I'm young.

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

Ebola haunted Zaire because of corruption and political repression. The virus had no secret powers, nor was it unusually contagious. For centuries Ebola had lurked in the jungles of central Africa. Its emergence into human populations required the special assistance of humanity's greatest vices : greed, corruption, arrogance, tyranny, and callousness.

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

At the end of the day, anybody who thinks there's a reward for nothing, ends up losing.

Autumn is the harvest of greedy death.

In these times gain is not only a matter of greed, but of ambition.

Supermarket tabloids and celebrity gossip shows are not just innocently shallow entertainment, but a fundamental part of a much larger movement that involves apathy, greed and hierarchy.

But love, like the sun that it is, sets afire and melts everything. what greed and privilege to build up over whole centuries the indignation of a pious spirit, with its natural following of oppressed souls, will cast down with a single shove.

And their greed was for gold or God. They collected souls as they collected jewels.

There are some souls so base and filthy that they love gain and interest as noble souls love fame and virtue, knowing one pleasure only, that of making money or of not losing it; anxious and avid for their ten per cent; entirely preoccupied with what is owed them; forever concerned about the depreciation or discredit of money; buried, and as it were engulfed, amid contracts, title-deeds and parchments. Such people are neither parents, friends, citizens or Christians, nor, perhaps, even men; they merely have money.

It's a familiar truism that at any one moment, financial markets are dominated by either fear or greed. But the healthiest markets are those that are animated by both fear and greed at the same time.

But there's got to be an opening somewhere here in front of me. Through this maze of ugliness and greed.

As long as greed, stupidity and cowardice remain a part of the human condition, there will be a constituency for Democrats.

With Napster and the sharing of music, of course, there are going to be people who exploit it. Greed has no end. But there's a lot of good that could happen. We shouldn't let the economic concerns of the major labels infringe on our freedom to share music.

I mean people -- people don't get -- they don't get smarter about things that get as basic as greed and you can't stand to see your neighbor getting rich. You know you're smarter than he is, and he's doing these things, you know, and he's getting rich, and your spouse is getting unhappy with you because you aren't doing -- pretty soon you start doing it. And so you get what I call the natural progression, the three Is. The innovators, the imitators, and the idiots.

For avarice begins where poverty ends.

If we had to tolerate in others all that we permit in ourselves, life would become completely unbearable.

She never forgets a slight, real or imagined. She takes caution for cowardice and dissent for defiance. And she is greedy. Greedy for power, for honour, for love.

The cancer in me became an awareness of the cancer that is everywhere. The cancer of cruelty, the cancer of carelessness, the cancer of greed.

Money never can be well managed if sought solely through the greed of money for its own sake. In all meanness there is a defect of intellect as well as of heart. And even the cleverness of avarice is but the cunning of imbecility.