Greed Quotes - Page 18

One path is greed, the second is curiosity. With one, the journey is to a reward; with the other, the journey is the reward.

RADIO IS DEAD. The once-bright star that was public broadcasting has been destroyed by greed and corproate muscle to the point that even the music that is completely repugnant is positioned to be popular.

The essence of good advertising is not to inspire hope, but to create greed.

I had no idea how greedy my heart really was.

The human heart is greedy; it will use religion, color, or any other excuse to justify its greed. Blame the human heart.

People's lives are filled with vice and the trappings of it. Ambition, greed and selfishness all have to do with vice. Sooner or later, you have to see through it or you don't survive.

It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have all one wants.

No one's fearful, everyone's greedy, and it will eventually end.

For top executives to award themselves these kinds of compensation packages in the midst of this economic crisis isn't just bad taste, it's bad strategy, and I will not tolerate it as president.

Time! Joyless emblem of the greed of millions, robber of the best which earth can give.

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.

Revolt is the mirror in which greed is forced to see itself.

The main source of our wealth is goodness. The affections and the generous qualities that God admires in a world full of greed.

I certainly understand that we're all trying to make a living, but I'm not thinking about that when I'm making it. And if that's your sole motivation, it's going to reflect that narcissistic greed and you're going to hear it in the music.

Ours is an upbeat, a hurried, hasty beat. It keeps pressing us to go farther, to include everything so that we can savor everything, so that we can know everything, so that we will miss nothing. Partly it's greed, but mainly its curiosity. We just want to experience it. And we do.

Instead of indulging in jealousy, greed, in relishing themselves, there are men who keep their hearts alert to the stillness in which time rolls on and leaves us behind. ... those who are open to the wonder will not miss it. Faith is found in solicitude for faith, in an inner care for the wonder that is everywhere.

Strikes deeper, grows with more pernicious root.

Greed has replaced religion as the national religion, and with greed comes envy.

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.

Left to my own devices, in the face of the climate change deniers, the madness and the greed-based decision-making, and propaganda that's been floating around, it's hard not to become pessimistic.

What has patriotism come to be but greed and false pride, when the only way it can show itself is by shedding blood to gain gold? More economic advantage, more territory, more power.

I'm fat because I'm greedy, and if my mind is fat it's because I'm curious.

Each of us needs to eliminate our anger, fear and greed. The roots of social conflicts and political tensions are in personal anger, fear and greed.

Animals are neither gods nor fiends, but men in their way without the lust and greed of man.

The poor lack much, the greedy everything.