Greed Quotes - Page 22

When everyone covets something, they are easily annoyed by it.

Fight only in direst need Not for lust or petty greed Honor those that do give birth Respect them well for their full worth

Greed is supported by an endless cast of what-ifs. Greedy people can never have enough to satisfy the need they feel in light of every conceivable eventuality.

Greed is the assumption that it is all for my consumption.

The party which is out sees nothing but graft and incapacity in the party which is in; and the party which is in sees nothing but greed and animosity in the party which is out.

We may feel bitterly how little our poems can do in the face of seemingly out-of-control technological power and seemingly limitless corporate greed, yet it has always been true that poetry can break isolation, show us to ourselves when we are outlawed or made invisible, remind us of beauty where no beauty seems possible, remind us of kinship where all is represented as separation.

...people of old deemed freedom from greed precious, and this is how they got beyond the world.

Human beings are very complex creatures. This desire, this greed, this love is very complex.

Let me, if not by birth, have lands by wit; All with me's meet that I can fashion fit.

The world in many ways would be a much calmer and gentler place if women ruled. There would have been fewer children sacrificed to the gods of greed and power.

People always should know better. People don't get - they don't get smarter about things that get as basic as greed.

[Mid-list writers are now] less greed on the part of both publishers and chain booksellers. It is easier for them to publish and sell only blockbusters and leave the real work to small presses.

Corporately contrived art product replaces inspired intellectual property with ineffectual poperty.

Greed is the lack of confidence of one's own ability to create.

Greediness of getting more deprives... the enjoyment of what it had got.

We must learn to separate need from greed...We must not allow our yearnings to exceed our earnings.

Oppression is often the consequence, but seldom or never the means of riches; and tho' avarice will preserve a man from being necessitously poor, it generally makes him too timorous to be wealthy.

John Cobb is saying that perhaps we are beginning to see that now as our greed goes completely out of control and everything is seen through money, through corporate power, etc., etc. We know it well. He asked the question, What will be the holocaust that takes us to the next era? - which he describes as "Earthism."

Abundance is rooted in community, not individualism. Abundance is what is before our eyes, but we cannot see when we are blinded by greed.

Unquenchable is a worthy successor to Cadillac Desert that ably demonstrates how our most valuable resource is being squandered, ignored, and flushed away. Although it reminds us that water is indeed finite, Unquenchable clearly shows us the solutions to the greatest threat of the 21st century are limited only by politics and greed.

Being rich has never stopped anyone from being greedy.

We don't have to be that greedy generation that just continued to take down the underpinnings of what makes the planet work in our favor.

Above all, beware of compromises. I do not mean that you are to get into antagonism with anybody, but you have to hold on to your own principles in weal or woe and never adjust them to others "fads" thought the greed of getting supporters.

When a doctor refuses money, even the most ethical ones, you usually start driving a good bargain with the undertaker.

Our first computers were born not out of greed or ego, but in the revolutionary spirit of helping common people rise above the most powerful institutions.