Greed Quotes - Page 26

I don't recognize hate, I don't recognize bitterness, I don't recognize jealousy, I don't recognize greed. I don't give them power. They don't exist to me.

As conscious adult women, if we really do care about the state of girls and women worldwide, we need to train this next generation of girls because they are going to be the ones taking over and they are going to be the ones that shift this paradigm. Unfortunately for our generation, we've been raised in a society where greed trumps all. In other words, where the bottom line is money...where money affects how we perceive each other, and how we perceive ourselves and our value. We need to break that now with this younger generation.

If I have to build a big company by mistreating other people then the Bible says WOE to me. I don't know what that is, but I don't want any of it.

He was probably selfish in the sack. Probably selfish and greedy and...unsophisticated. And hung like a horse.

The first line in the first Gasland is: “I’m not a pessimist. I’ve always had a great deal of faith in people that we won’t succumb to frenzy or rage or greed. That we’ll figure out a solution without destroying the things that we love.” I have not lost that sense.

I love the competitive part of stocks. A lot of fear and greed, that's all it is. All I see is green and red.

When we desire or solicit anything, our minds run wholly on the good side or circumstances of it; when it is obtained, our minds run wholly on the bad ones.

As consumers we are incredibly discerning, we sense where has been great care in the design, and when there is cynicism and greed.

The privileged have regularly invited their own destruction with their greed.

Mr. Greed, why do you have to own everything that you see?

People are just greedy animals, after all.

The more our hearts and minds are turned to assisting others less fortunate than we, the more we will avoid the spiritually cankering effects that result from greed, selfishness and overindulgence.

There are so many ways a family can unravel. All it takes is a tiny slash of selfishness, a rip of greed, a puncture of bad luck. And yet, woven tightly, family can be the strongest bond imaginable.

If you eat junk, you look like junk. People say, 'It's not my fault, it's my glands.' It's not; it's greed!

Greed stains our culture, soaks our sensibilities and has replaced grace as a sign of our intimacy with the divine.

Such gluttony second to none Almost ended fatally When a bone choked a wolf as he gulped what he ate

Cash is always the deciding factor in such matters of moral politics; nothing ever gets done unless motivated by commerce or greed.

This meal happened to be a make-believe tea, and they sat round the board guzzling in their greed; and really, what with their chatter and recriminations, the noise, as Wendy said, was positively deafening.

Up until the Depression, recession had a moral character: it was supposed to purge the body economic of the greed and excess that attends a business expansion.

Greed, accident, or malice may have harmful results, but, barring something truly apocalyptic, a resilient system can absorb such results without its overall health being threatened.

The truly greedy, it seems to me, are those who think they've a right to live well at the expense of others.

Until a few months ago we had a code of honor, and even the worst ruffians behaved with decency. You could leave your gold in a tent with no guard and no one would touch it, but now all that has changed. The law of the jungle rules, the only ideology is greed. Don't let yourself be parted from your weapons, and always travel in pairs or groups, because this is a land of thieves.

If you ask for too much, you lose even that which you have.

You're not a road comic till you've watched Real Sex and American Greed alone in your hotel room.

If your desire for 'good' is based on greed, it is not good, but greed.