Greed Quotes

This tribe of black gentry work more effectually against us, than the enemy's arms. They are a hundred times more dangerous to our liberties, and the great cause we are engaged in. It is much to be lamented that each State, long ere this, has not hunted them down as pests to society, and the greatest enemies we have to the happiness of America.

Gambling is the child of avarice, the brother of iniquity, and the father of mischief.

He who wishes to be rich in a day will be hanged in a year.

I am surrounded by priests who repeat incessantly that their kingdom is not of this world, and yet they lay hands on everything they can get.

Help us to conquer the apostles of greed and racial arrogancies.

We may allow ourselves a brief period of rejoicing; but let us not forget for a moment the toil and efforts that lie ahead. Japan, with all her treachery and greed, remains unsubdued. The injury she has inflicted on Great Britain, the United States, and other countries, and her detestable cruelties, call for justice and retribution.We must now devote all our strength and resources to the completion of our task, both at home and abroad. Advance, Britannia! Long live the cause of freedom! God save the King.

To those supporters who were told that I abandoned them, that is untrue. I abandoned greed, corruption, and compromise, never you, and never the artistic gifts and abilities that sustained me.

Greed and lust I can understand, but I can't understand the values of definition and confinement. Definition destroys. Besides, there's nothing definite in this world.

The fact that people will be full of greed, fear or folly is predictable.The sequence is not predictable.

Be fearful when there is greed and be greedy when there is fear.

Failure comes from ego, greed, envy, fear, imitation. I have success not because I am smart, but because I am rational.

Money is therefore not only the object but also the fountainhead of greed.

I sit on a man's back, choking him, and making him carry me, and yet assure myself and others that I am very sorry for him and wish to ease his lot by any means possible, except getting off his back.

The way of life can be free and beautiful, but we have lost the way. Greed has poisoned men's souls, hasbarricaded the world with hate, has goose-stepped us into misery and bloodshed. We have developed speed, but we have shut ourselves in. Machinery that gives abundance has left us in want. Our knowledge has made us cynical; our cleverness, hard and unkind. We think too much and feel too little. More than machinery, we need humanity. More than cleverness, we need kindness and gentleness. Without these qualities, life will be violent and all will be lost.

Man is oftentimes weak-minded enough to be caught in the snare of greed and honeyed words.

The world is big enough to satisfy everyones needs, but will always be too small to satisfy everyones greed.

I fear just one thing : Money! Greed was what motivated Judas to sell Jesus.

There is no fire like passion, there is no shark like hatred, there is no snare like folly, there is no torrent like greed.

Microsoft is not about greed. It's about innovation and fairness.

Where do the evils like corruption arise from? It comes from the never-ending greed. The fight for corruption-free ethical society will have to be fought against this greed and replace it with 'what can I give' spirit.