GREED QUOTES

• Truth, after all, wears a different face to everybody, and it would be too tedious to wait till all were agreed.
  ~ James Russell Lowell ~
• There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it.
  ~ Maya Angelou ~
• It is greed that makes us human as it could be for good or bad.
  ~ Zaman Ali ~
• Scrubbing the mouth cannot clean the greed of tongue or the envious nature of the gum.
  ~ Gilbert Sordebabari ~
• I've always been a bit of a decorator. I think if I wasn't a singer I'd probably be in stage setting or interior design or something. I like clutter and I'm quite visually greedy. I can't have things to be plain I have to have things looking interesting... maybe I'm just a frustrated interior designer stuck in a singing career.
  ~ Florence Welch ~
• I really care about this stuff, I care about movies, and you just have to be strong and don't be stupid freedom of choice is a big responsibility, and I'm lucky enough not to have to just take any movie to pay the rent, so there's no need to be greedy.
  ~ Jonah Hill ~
• I really care about this stuff, I care about movies, and you just have to be strong and don't be stupid freedom of choice is a big responsibility, and I'm lucky enough not to have to just take any movie to pay the rent, so there's no need to be greedy.
  ~ Jonah Hill ~
• The ignorant mind, with its infinite afflictions, passions, and evils, is rooted in the three poisons. Greed, anger, and delusion.
  ~ Bodhidharma ~
• Greed, like the love of comfort, is a kind of fear.
  ~ Cyril Connolly ~
• To talk about balance, it's easier to talk about what's out of balance. And I think anytime that you have any disease, and disease meaning lack of ease, lack of flow... dis-ease. So any time there's disease, you're out of balance, whether it's jealousy, anger, greed, anxiety, fear.
  ~ Ricky Williams ~
• To talk about balance, it's easier to talk about what's out of balance. And I think anytime that you have any disease, and disease meaning lack of ease, lack of flow... dis-ease. So any time there's disease, you're out of balance, whether it's jealousy, anger, greed, anxiety, fear.
  ~ Ricky Williams ~
• To talk about balance, it's easier to talk about what's out of balance. And I think anytime that you have any disease, and disease meaning lack of ease, lack of flow... dis-ease. So any time there's disease, you're out of balance, whether it's jealousy, anger, greed, anxiety, fear.
  ~ Ricky Williams ~
• To talk about balance, it's easier to talk about what's out of balance. And I think anytime that you have any disease, and disease meaning lack of ease, lack of flow... dis-ease. So any time there's disease, you're out of balance, whether it's jealousy, anger, greed, anxiety, fear.
  ~ Ricky Williams ~
• 'Dallas' hit a chord back in the late Seventies and Eighties because it was the age of greed: here you have this unapologetic character who is mean and nasty and ruthless and does it all with an evil grin. I think people related to JR back then because we all have someone we know exactly like him. Everyone in the world knows a JR.
  ~ Larry Hagman ~
• The Founders recognized that Government is quite literally a necessary evil, that there must be opposition, between its various branches, and between political parties, for these are the only ways to temper the individual's greed for power and the electorates' desires for peace by submission to coercion or blandishment.
  ~ David Mamet ~
• The Founders recognized that Government is quite literally a necessary evil, that there must be opposition, between its various branches, and between political parties, for these are the only ways to temper the individual's greed for power and the electorates' desires for peace by submission to coercion or blandishment.
  ~ David Mamet ~
• Do not follow vain desires for verily he who prospers is preserved from lust, greed and anger.
  ~ Abu Bakr ~
• An honest man is labeled dishonest if he earns an extra shilling with free will, for he too has the right to riches. But what about those who deny that right in all fairness with their dominance and greed.
  ~ Jignesh Tailor ~
• I could smell your intentions From your parasitic moves You reek of greed
  ~ Londiwe Sibisi ~
• We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.
  ~ Denis Diderot ~
• There's no being wrong in seeing something in art, only being disagreed with.
  ~ Jonathan Safran Foer ~
• I never learned from a man who agreed with me.
  ~ Robert A. Heinlein ~
• The dilemma of modern medicine, and the underlying central flaw in medical education and, most of all, in the training of interns, is the irresistible drive to do something, anything. It is expected by patients and too often agreed to by their doctors, in the face of ignorance.
  ~ Lewis Thomas ~
• The dilemma of modern medicine, and the underlying central flaw in medical education and, most of all, in the training of interns, is the irresistible drive to do something, anything. It is expected by patients and too often agreed to by their doctors, in the face of ignorance.
  ~ Lewis Thomas ~
• By the time Obama came into office, Washington had already agreed over a period of a few weeks to a $700 billion government infusion into the world banking system. Nothing of the sort had ever been done before, and it was done spit spot with very little national debate.
  ~ John Podhoretz ~
• At a time when unbridled greed, malignant aggression, and existence of weapons of mass destruction threatens the survival of humanity, we should seriously consider any avenue that offers some hope.
  ~ Stanislav Grof ~
• Fear and greed are potent motivators. When both of these forces push in the same direction, virtually no human being can resist.
  ~ Andrew Weil ~
• Deregulation created this epidemic of greed which according to the rules of capitalism was OK. Beyond that there was criminal behaviour. There have been no repercussions and it's hard to make your peace with.
  ~ Brad Pitt ~
• It has always seemed strange to me... 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. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second.
  ~ John Steinbeck ~
• It has always seemed strange to me... 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. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second.
  ~ John Steinbeck ~
• It has always seemed strange to me... 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. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second.
  ~ John Steinbeck ~
• It has always seemed strange to me... 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. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second.
  ~ John Steinbeck ~
• Quarreling over food and drink, having neither scruples nor shame, not knowing right from wrong, not trying to avoid death or injury, not fearful of greater strength or of greater numbers, greedily aware only of food and drink - such is the bravery of the dog and boar.
  ~ Xun Zi ~
• Quarreling over food and drink, having neither scruples nor shame, not knowing right from wrong, not trying to avoid death or injury, not fearful of greater strength or of greater numbers, greedily aware only of food and drink - such is the bravery of the dog and boar.
  ~ Xun Zi ~
• Quarreling over food and drink, having neither scruples nor shame, not knowing right from wrong, not trying to avoid death or injury, not fearful of greater strength or of greater numbers, greedily aware only of food and drink - such is the bravery of the dog and boar.
  ~ Xun Zi ~
• The happiness and peace attained by those satisfied by the nectar of spiritual tranquillity is not attained by greedy persons restlessly moving here and there.
  ~ Chanakya ~
• The happiness and peace attained by those satisfied by the nectar of spiritual tranquillity is not attained by greedy persons restlessly moving here and there.
  ~ Chanakya ~
• 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 ~
• If China is helping its domestic industries charge an artificially low price for solar panels and other environmental goods, then China is violating international trade rules that it agreed to when it became a member of the World Trade Organization.
  ~ Ron Wyden ~
• That is who Barack Obama is - a person of admirable character - and that is who he has remained for me over these last four years. I have not agreed with his every decision, but never once have I seen him break his cool, lose his composure, or abandon his insightful perspective - even during the most serious and/or absurd national disasters.
  ~ Elizabeth Gilbert ~
• New York City is a great monument to the power of money and greed... a race for rent.
  ~ Frank Lloyd Wright ~
• New York City is a great monument to the power of money and greed... a race for rent.
  ~ Frank Lloyd Wright ~
• We own almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who have differed.
  ~ Charles Caleb Colton ~
• When Jesus comes back, these crazy, greedy, capitalistic men are gonna kill him again.
  ~ Mike Tyson ~
• Greed is a basic part of animal nature. Being against it is like being against breathing or eating. It means nothing.
  ~ Ben Stein ~
• 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.
  ~ James Buchan ~
• To 'choose' dogma and faith over doubt and experience is to throw out the ripening vintage and to reach greedily for the Kool-Aid.
  ~ Christopher Hitchens ~
• To 'choose' dogma and faith over doubt and experience is to throw out the ripening vintage and to reach greedily for the Kool-Aid.
  ~ Christopher Hitchens ~
• Unfortunately, after Sept. 11, there was an outburst in America of intense suffering and patriotism, and the Bush administration was very shrewd and effective in painting anyone who disagreed with the policies as unpatriotic or even traitorous.
  ~ Jimmy Carter ~
• Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.
  ~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca ~
• For greed all nature is too little.
  ~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca ~
• In December, I agreed to extend the tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans because it was the only way I could prevent a tax hike on middle-class Americans. But we cannot afford $1 trillion worth of tax cuts for every millionaire and billionaire in our society. We can't afford it. And I refuse to renew them again.
  ~ Barack Obama ~
• History is a set of lies agreed upon.
  ~ Napoleon Bonaparte ~
• What is history but a fable agreed upon?
  ~ Napoleon Bonaparte ~
• Where greed lie at the top, poverty must surely be seen at the grassroot.
  ~ Williams Emmanuel ~