Greed Quotes - Page 21

Avarice is a cursed vice: offer a man enough gold, and he will part with his own small hoard of food, however great his hunger.

The must have it now mentality, was man's first step into the gorging of his natural home.

Greed for enlightenment and immortality is no different than greed for material wealth. It is self-centered and dualistic, and thus an obstacle to true attainment. Therefore these states are never achieved by those who covet them; rather, they are the reward of the virtuous.

If you do good because you expect to be rewarded, it is greed.

Sex, greed, debauchery - I love it. Brian Azzarello is brilliant.

Fraud is the daughter of greed.

Good is not good, unless A thousand it possess, But doth waste with greediness.

When you question a man's motives, when you say they are acting out of greed, they are in the pocket of an interest group, et cetera. It's awful hard to reach consensus. It's awful hard to reach across the table and shake hands. No matter how bitterly you disagree, though, it is always possible if you question judgment and not motive.

The corporation cannot be ethical, its only responsibility is to make a profit.

Though statisticians in our time have never kept the score, Man wants a great deal here below and Woman even more.

Enter, stranger, but take heed Of what awaits the sin of greed, For those who take, but do not earn, Must pay most dearly in their turn. So if you seek beneath our floors A treasure that was never yours, Thief, you have been warned, beware Of finding more than treasure there.

Impatience is not the least of your faults, Malik, it is a kind of greed and someday it may see you undone.

Care clings to wealth: the thirst for more Grows as our fortunes grow.

Ignorance, poverty, and greed must disappear so that light can prevail in all places.

You shouldn't be greedy. You should feel good about yourself and not be greedy of what other people have.

Marketers keep inventing desires, necessities for you and for me. I need this. I need that. I need. I need. It's the need of a smoking fit. If you don't smoke that cigarette now, you'll die - when in reality you die because you succumb to the rage and rattle of the needy greed that keeps you busy needing more and more things. Is this the American Dream - the greedy need?

Love of glory, fear of shame, greed for fortune, the desire to make life agreeable and comfortable, and the wish to depreciate others - all of these are often the causes of the bravery that is spoken so highly of by men.

Original sin, the true original sin, is the blind destruction for the sake of greed of this natural paradise which lies all around us-if only we were worthy of it.

I'm greedy and ambitious like everybody else.

I love fashion and beauty and all those things, I still do but I think that it has changed the shift, that the greed is ruling the planet right now.

Avarice, or the desire of gain, is a universal passion which operates at all times, at all places, and upon all persons.

Perhaps all our troubles - all the violence, obesity, illness, depression, and greed we can't overcome - began when we stopped living as Running People. Deny your nature, and it will erupt in some other, uglier way.

Corporate greed is killing America, and that's what we battling at Boeing.

Greed will always leave you dissatisfied because you'll never be able to get everything you desire. Greed never allows you to think you have enough; it always destroys you by making you strive ever harder for more.

It means zero to be against greed.