Famous Quotes & Sayings

The poor lack much, but the greedy more

Eartha Kitt

Greed is so destructive. It destroys everything.

Arianna Huffington

having too much is never enough.

B. C. Forbes

The be-all and end-all of life should not be to get rich, but to enrich the world.

We accomplished what we wanted to come down here with the split, but when you sweep the first day you get a little greedy and want to get at least one of the two (contests) the next day.

Aaron Swartz

Only those blinded by greed would refuse to let a friend make a copy.

Charles Caleb Colton

Avarice has ruined more souls than extravagance.

Charles Horton Cooley

It is partly to avoid consciousness of greed that we prefer to associate with those who are at least as greedy as we ourselves. Those who consume much less are a reproach.

Michael Shermer

I say you don't need religion, or political ideology, to understand human nature. Science reveals that human nature is greedy and selfish, altruistic and helpful.

Charlie Pierce

There is a lot in American politics (and in American life) that is angry, greedy, reckless and violent.

Agnes de Mille

Ours is an upbeat, a hurried, hasty beat. It keeps pressing us to go farther, to include everything so that we can savor everything, so that we can know everything, so that we will miss nothing. Partly it's greed, but mainly its curiosity. We just want to experience it. And we do.

What this is about, this is isn't about pro sports, this is about greed. This is about money, power and arrogance.

If there was a simple acronym for greed, I'd use that. There's a lot of money at stake.

Isobelle Carmody

Impatience is not the least of your faults, Malik, it is a kind of greed and someday it may see you undone.

John Scalzi

The original sin of Republicans is greed. Everyone understands greed. Everybody wants to get theirs. The original sin of Democrats is pity. Greed is more attractive, and a better motivator, than pity.

Simon Winchester

We associate the North Atlantic with cod. The motto of Newfoundland used to be 'In cod we trust.' It was a joke, but it was essentially true. But there is no cod anymore. And that's extraordinary. It's all because of either greed or politics - Canadian politics.

Socrates

The reason why we have to acquire wealth is the body, because we are slaves in its service.

Michael Douglas

Someone reminded me I once said, 'Greed is good.' Now it seems it's legal.

Jake Roberts

A victim of your own greed..wallowing in the muck of avarice.

Jacque Fresco

We found out that you can't pass on acquired things like bigotry, prejudice, greed. That's all learned in your culture or your sub-culture

Plato

Is it not the excess and greed of this and the neglect of all other things that revolutionizes this constitution too and prepares the way for the necessity of a dictatorship?

Lauryn Hill

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.

Louis MacNeice

It's no go the merry-go-round, it's no go the rickshaw All we want is a limousine and a ticket for the peepshow.

Millard Fuller

There are sufficient resources in the world for the needs of everybody, but not enough for the greed of even a significant minority.

Mignon McLaughlin

Be glad that you're greedy; the national economy would collapse if you weren't.

Philip Roth

Fear tends to manifest itself much more quickly than greed, so volatile markets tend to be on the downside. In up markets, volatility tends to gradually decline.

Somebody said on TV the other night that New Orleans had died. New Orleans was murdered. Neglect and greed murdered New Orleans,

Joe Franklin

The whole idea is never to get greedy indoors.

Jade Johnson

For me it isn't about the money or the greed, it's always been about the medals.

This isn't a matter of greed -- this is a matter of survival.

Saint Patrick

Sufficient to say, greed is a deadly deed. You shall not covet your neighbor's goods.

Pearl S. Buck

Purposeless activity may be a phase of death.

Peter Schiff

Greed is normally balanced by fear.