Greed Quotes - page 9

It has always seemed strange to me," said Doc. "The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest are the traits of success. (John Steinbeck)
It didn´t occur to me until later that there´s another truth, very simple: greed in a good cause is still greed. View quote
Stephen King
I'm gonna tell all you fascists, you may be surprised People all over this world are getting organized You're bound to lose You fascists are bound to lose Race hatred cannot stop us, this one thing I know Poll tax and Jim Crow and greed have got to go You're bound to lose You fascists are bound to lose ... People of every color marching side by side Marching across these fields where a million fascists died You're bound to lose You fascists are bound to lose ... I'm going into this battle, take my union gun Gonna end this world of slavery before this war is won You're bound to lose You fascists are bound to lose. View quote
Woody Guthrie
We are set irrevocably, I believe, on a path that will take us to the stars-unless in some monstrous capitulation to stupidity and greed, we destroy ourselves first. View quote
Carl Sagan
It is greed to do all the talking but not to want to listen at all. View quote
Democritus
He is the embodiment of greed, ambition, bigotry, and dislike of the marginalized. Of course, all that means is that he simply instantiates in a clear way the values of the GOP, but they don't like those being so out in the open! Trump is in fact the very product of what Republicans stand for: he's a monster they created, but now they don't like it. They want those values, but expressed sotto voce, and by a slicker candidate. View quote
Jerry Coyne
Your guest is mundane, a restless personage whose thoughts are thick with greed and treachery. A demon crouches on his shoulder, named Ambition. View quote
Steven Erikson
Animals only follow their natural instincts; but man, unless he has experienced the influence of learning and philosophy, is at the mercy of impulses that are worse than those of a wild beast. There is no beast more savage and dangerous than a human being who is swept along by the passions of ambition, greed, anger, envy, extravagance, and sensuality. View quote
Desiderius Erasmus
Just as it is possible to think of water both while thirsty and while not thirsty, so it is possible to think of gold with greed and without greed. The same applies to other things. View quote
Evagrius Ponticus
Greed is the lack of confidence of one's own ability to create. View quote
Vanna Bonta
When confidence in the power to create is obscured, greed sets in, for greed is nothing but the loss of confidence in one's own ability to create. (Vanna Bonta)
Your leaders worshipped the greed devil when they sold their votes and influence to spread bad stuff; they worshipped the power devil when they valued votes over the health of the planet; they made a pretence of mercy and justice by advocating human rights while they sucked up to dominance devils whose law was torture and whose rule was the enslavement of women. View quote
Sheri S. Tepper
Each race creates its own devils. You had so many that they specialized. Devils of racial hatred, devils of greed and violence. Devils who killed their own people in orgies of blood. Devils who bombed clinics, devils who bombed school buses, devils who bombed other devils. I got to know every one of them by name. As soon as I arrived, I sent my monsters out to kill them all. They had tarnished my reputation, and though I have lavished much care on mankind, vengeance is mine. View quote
Sheri S. Tepper
The misery and suffering that abound everywhere, reveal clearly that you have wantonly rejected the lessons of life. Foolish man! Your repeated, wanton neglect to learn the lessons of centuries has wrecked your boasted civilisation upon the rocks of hatred and greed. View quote
Swami Sivananda
A true opium of the people is a belief in nothingness after death - the huge solace of thinking that for our betrayals, greed, cowardice, murders we are not going to be judged. View quote
Czesław Miłosz
but what should we do when the highborn and wealthy take to crime? Indeed, if a poor man will spend a year in prison for stealing out of hunger, how high would the gallows need to be to hang the rich man who breaks the law out of greed? View quote
Terry Pratchett
There is no end to the war and death caused by man or to the tears shed by all the innocent victims of such tragedies. What were all these for? Only for conquering, establishing superiority and satisfying our greed for money and fame. Mankind has taken upon itself countless curses. In order to attain freedom from these curses, at least a hundred generations to come should wipe the tears of the suffering, striving to console them and alleviate their pain. At least now, as an atonement, shouldn't we try to introspect? View quote
Mata Amritanandamayi
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. View quote
Alan Hirsch
What kind of society isn't structured on greed?... So the problem of social organization is how to set up an arrangement under which greed will do the least harm. It seems to me that the great virtue of capitalism is that it's that kind of system. Because under capitalism, the power of any one individual over his fellow man is relatively small. View quote
Milton Friedman
The problem of social organization is how to set up an arrangement under which greed will do the least harm, capitalism is that kind of a system. View quote
Milton Friedman
Well first of all, tell me, is there some society you know of that doesn't run on greed? You think Russia doesn't run on greed? You think China doesn't run on greed? What is greed? (Milton Friedman)
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. View quote
Steve Wozniak
Fifa cannot sit by and see greed rule the football world. Nor shall we. View quote
Sepp Blatter
Greed is normally balanced by fear. View quote
Peter Schiff
We speak for millions of reasoning people fighting to preserve our environment from greed and from stupidity. View quote
Mario Cuomo