Greed Quotes - Page 20

The avarice of the miser may be termed the grand sepulchral of all his other passions, as they successively decay.

It's really hard to have a fair discussion when you're faced with militarism, aggression, and greed. The militarists do not want dialogue. They want what they want. They're psychotic. They're greedy, they're narcissistic, and they're dangerous.

Fear and greed are potent motivators. When both of these forces push in the same direction, virtually no human being can resist.

While neurological studies have tried to identify components responsible for fear and greed, the impact on finance is less clear.

I believe I was extremely greedy.

Our problem mostly in our abuse of each other and the planet is greed. Just the rampant, incredible greed that people have partly because they're empty and they can't get enough because they're - you know, it's that Buddhist thing about the hungry ghost with the little mouth and the big belly.

Everything is poisoned, and it's all poisoned from greed. I think our inability to communicate with each other and everything that's happening in the world is all a symptom of our greater inability to deal with nature appropriately.

The Reagan-Bush years have exalted private gain over public obligation, special interests over the common good, wealth and fame over work and family. The 1980s ushered in a Gilded Age of greed and selfishness, of irresponsibility and excess, and of neglect.

In 302, the Roman emperor Diocletian commanded "there should be cheapness," declaring, "Unprincipled greed appears wherever our armies ... march. ... Our law shall fix a measure and a limit to this greed." The predictable result of Diocletian's food price controls were black markets, hunger and food confiscation by his soldiers. Despite the disastrous history of price controls, politicians never manage to resist tampering with prices -- that's not a flattering observation of their learning abilities.

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

Politics may come and go, but Greed goes on forever.

Greed puts out the sun.

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

We have become so addicted to our greed-driven habits that we have lost our moral compass and don't know what is right and wrong.

Greed is an integral quality of a strong player.

You point out that war is only a symptom of the whole horrid business of human behavior, and cannot be isolated. And that, even if we abolish war, we shall not abolish hate and greed. So might it have been argued about slave emancipation, that slavery was but one aspect of human disgustingness, and that to abolish it would not end the barbarity that causes it. But did the abolitionists therefore waste their breath? And do we waste ours now in protesting against war?

Spirituality for the most part is a mask worn by idleness, arrogance and greed.

I want an Oompa-Loompa!' screamed Veruca.

You have to remove your human sentiment when it comes to greed and the accumulation of wealth.

The greed for fruit misses the flower.

Patriarchy is connected to greed, a symptom of a larger force that can only be dispelled through kindness and love. It's basic Buddhism.

It isn't that greed's increased. What's increased is the realization that you've got a free field to reach out for what you'd like to do.

As we are set free by that love from our own pride and fear, our own greed and arrogance, so we are free in our turn to be agents of reconciliation and hope, or healing and love.

Greed is not defined by what something costs; it is measured by what it costs you. If anything costs you your faith or your family, the price is too high. Such is the point Jesus makes in the parable of the portfolio.

In the race for money some men may come first, but man comes last.