Greed Quotes - page 3

Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world... would do this, it would change the earth. (William Faulkner)
It's sundown on the union that was made in the USA. Sure was a good idea till greed got in the way. View quote
Bob Dylan
In the second and third exiles we have served as a living protest against greed and hate, against physical force, against "might makes right!" View quote
Isaac Leib Peretz
Whatever posessions and objects of its desires the lower self may obtain, it hangs on to them, refusing to let them go out of greed for more, or out of fear of poverty and need. View quote
Rumi
In a society governed passively by free markets and free elections, organized greed always defeats disorganized democracy. View quote
Matt Taibbi
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. View quote
Stanislav Grof
The man who sailed around his soul From East to West, from pole to pole With ego as his drunken captain Greed, the mutineer, had trapped all reason in the hold. View quote
Andy Partridge
What thrust us into war were not Hitler's political teachings: the cause, this time, was his successful attempt to establish a new economy. The causes of the war were: envy, greed, and fear. View quote
J. F. C. Fuller
He was seized and dragged off to King Philip, and being asked who he was, replied, "A spy upon your insatiable greed." View quote
Diogenes of Sinope
It is doubly chimerical to build peace on economic foundations which, in turn, rest on the systematic cultivation of greed and envy, the very forces which drive men into conflict. View quote
E. F. Schumacher
Whoever imposes severe punishment becomes repulsive to the people; while he who awards mild punishment becomes contemptible. But whoever imposes punishment as deserved becomes respectable. For punishment when awarded with due consideration, makes the people devoted to righteousness and to works productive of wealth and enjoyment; while punishment, when ill-awarded under the influence of greed and anger or owing to ignorance, excites fury even among hermits and ascetics dwelling in forests, not to speak of householders. (Chanakya)
Money is therefore not only the object but also the fountainhead of greed. View quote
Karl Marx
There is no force more potent in the modern world than stupidity fueled by greed. View quote
Edward Abbey
Capitalism: Nothing so mean could be right. Greed is the ugliest of the capital sins. View quote
Edward Abbey
They who in folly or mere greed Enslaved religion, markets, laws, Borrow our language now and bid Us to speak up in freedom's cause. View quote
Cecil Day Lewis
Our friends in the other party will never forgive us for our success, and are doing everything in their power to rewrite history. Listening to the liberals, you'd think that the 1980s were the worst period since the Great Depression, filled with suffering and despair. I don't know about you, but I'm getting awfully tired of the whining voices from the White House these days. They're claiming there was a decade of greed and neglect, but you and I know better than that. We were there. View quote
Ronald Reagan
Fight only in direst need Not for lust or petty greed Honor those that do give birth Respect them well for their full worth. View quote
Anne McCaffrey
One side of service is serving, but the other side is creating the space in oneself where the possibilities of giving one's best become feasible. If you let go of your own compulsion and greed the things you are conditioned into by your culture then the more archetypal, more universally valid, more human, more compassionate, wiser activities and thoughts can come to your mind and you can dedicate yourself to them more fully. View quote
Rafe Martin
Fear and greed are potent motivators. When both of these forces push in the same direction, virtually no human being can resist. View quote
Andrew Weil
For too long, humanity has acted with an outrageous lack of responsibility. We wanted everything for ourselves: greed, really. We failed to look at the overall picture and did not take into consideration those with whom we share the world. View quote
Shari Arison
I guess each of us, at some time, finds one person with whom we are compelled toward absolute honesty, one person whose good opinion of us becomes a substitute for the broader opinion of the world. And that opinion becomes more important than all our sneaky, sleazy schemes of greed, lust, self-aggrandizement, whatever we are up to while lying the world into believing we are just plain nice folks. (Glen Cook)
Buddhism talks about the possibility of transforming greed, hatred, and delusion. But sometimes need turns into greed. View quote
Jack Kornfield
I vote far-left. I am frequently angered by corporate greed and think education ought to be free and teachers paid well. View quote
Eleanor Catton
Greed is a fat demon with a small mouth and whatever you feed it is never enough. View quote
Janwillem van de Wetering
I like to think that my arrogance, impetuosity, impatience, selfishness and greed are the qualities that make me the lovable chap I am. View quote
Richard Hammond