Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bernie Sanders

As the nation at last confronts global warming, it is no time for denial, greed, cynicism or pessimism.

Michael Leunig

Every child is a greedy child, I think. I mean, it's healthy to be a greedy child.

Anna Jameson

Avarice is to the intellect what sensuality is to the morals

You go into every series wanting to win the series. But when you win the first two you get greedy and want to go for the sweep. We're pleased with the outcome as a whole.

Robert Kiyosaki

Going into our fear and confronting our greed, our weaknesses, our neediness is the way out. And the way out is through the mind, by choosing our thoughts.

Cornel West

We want to bear witness today that we know the relation between corporate greed and what goes on too often in the Supreme Court decisions.

David Mamet

How can I be secure? Through amassing wealth beyond all measure? No. And what's beyond measure? That's a sickness. That's a trap. There is no measure. Only greed.

Conrad Black

Greed has been severely underestimated and denigrated - unfairly so, in my opinion.

Confucius

The Master said, “If your conduct is determined solely by considerations of profit you will arouse great resentment.

Vandana Shiva

The agrarian crisis [in India] is an unnecessary tragedy, resulting directly from an economics of greed and a politics driven by the economies of greed.

Annie Dillard

The life of sensation is the life of greed; it requires more and more. The life of the spirit requires less and less.

Adrienne Rich

We may feel bitterly how little our poems can do in the face of seemingly out-of-control technological power and seemingly limitless corporate greed, yet it has always been true that poetry can break isolation, show us to ourselves when we are outlawed or made invisible, remind us of beauty where no beauty seems possible, remind us of kinship where all is represented as separation.

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.

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.

Aaron Swartz

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

Aristotle

Greed has no boundaries

man can satisfy his needs but not his greed

It's had everything to do with personal greed and how much money they were going to make on the fishery.

The right price has nothing to do with greed. It has to do with demand.

Etty Hillesum

Greed probably figures in my intellectual life as well, as I attempt to absorb a massive amount of information with consequent mental indigestion.

Eric Cantona

We all seem to be about aggression and greed. It's a massive pressure that affects us all.

Jasper Fforde

Cash is always the deciding factor in such matters of moral politics; nothing ever gets done unless motivated by commerce or greed.

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.

Jade Johnson

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

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

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

Joe Franklin

The whole idea is never to get greedy indoors.

Milton Friedman

What kind of society isn't structured on greed?

Julian Casablancas

Greed is the inventor of injustice as well as the current enforcer.

Idries Shah

If your desire for 'good' is based on greed, it is not good, but greed.

Harry S Truman

Selfishness and greed, individual or national, cause most of our troubles.

J. K. Rowling

Enter, stranger, but take heed Of what awaits the sin of greed, For those who take, but do not earn, Must pay most dearly in their turn. So if you seek beneath our floors A treasure that was never yours, Thief, you have been warned, beware Of finding more than treasure there.