Greed Quotes - Page 6

There are a lot of people who are doing wonderful things, quietly, with no motive of greed, or hostility toward other people, or delusions of superiority.

A compassionate heart still feels anger, greed, jealousy, and other such emotions. But it accepts them for what they are with equanimity, and cultivates the strength of mind to let them arise and pass without identifying with or acting upon them.

The practice of gratitude is incompatible with negative emotions and may actually diminish or deter such feelings as anger, bitterness, and greed.

Greed may not be good, but it’s not so bad either. You humans think greed is just for money or power, but everyone wants something they can’t have.

The love for material things grows like a fungus in the soul and destroys the loveliness of the human heart utterly.

Unless the church is equipping believers to embrace the values and vision of the kingdom of God and turn away from the materialism, consumerism, greed, and power of the present age, it not only abandons its biblical mandate, it is rendered missionally ineffective.

They have plundered the world, stripping naked the land in their hunger… they are driven by greed, if their enemy be rich; by ambition, if poor… They ravage, they slaughter, they seize by false pretenses, and all of this they hail as the construction of empire. And when in their wake nothing remains but a desert, they call that peace.

When you cast away all your greed and fixation in adversity, you can find unexpected strength.

It is not necessity but abundance which produces greed.

Throw away profit and greed, and there won't be any thieves.

White folks' greed runs a world in need.

Most of the mess that is called history comes about because kings and presidents cannot be satisfied with a nice chicken and a good loaf of bread.

The law has been perverted, and the powers of the state have become perverted along with it. The law has not only been turned from its proper function, but made to follow an entirely contrary purpose. The law has become a tool for every kind of greed. Instead of preventing crime, the law itself is guilty of the abuses it is supposed to punish. If this is true, it is a serious matter, and moral duty requires me to call the attention of my fellow-citizens to it.

It is easy to get everything you want, provided you first learn to do without the things you cannot get.

The dull, purblind folly of the very rich men, their greed and arrogance, and the corruption in business and politics, have tended to produce a very unhealthy condition.

Greed, for lack of a better word, is good.

Ignorance, hatred and greed are killing nature.

I think we need to take on the greed of the billionaire class, a disastrous campaign finance system.

Love of the simple is all that I need, I've no time for schism or lovers of greed.

Unrestrained greed means the ruin of the great woods and the drying up of the sources of the rivers.

There is no calamity greater than lavish desires. There is no greater guilt than discontent. And there is no greater disaster than greed.

The evil in our desires typically does not lie in what we want, but that we want it too much.

He was seized and dragged off to King Philip, and being asked who he was, replied, "A spy upon your insatiable greed."

Ambition and thirst for power have a part but greed and greed alone is the reason for a man wanting to swell his ward.

Envious because I have a heart, Gluttonous because I have a heart, Greedy because I have a heart, Prideful because I have a heart, Slothful because I have a heart, Wrathful because I have a heart, Because I have a heart, I lust for all that you are.