Famous Quotes & Sayings

The owners, as cantankerous as some of them are, and as singled-minded as some of them are and as greedy as some of them are, ultimately have respect for who Tagliabue is and what he has accomplished.

It got away from us. The 3-pointer to start the third quarter was great, but we then got greedy with those.

Deb Caletti

I long for books; I am utterly greedy about them.

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.

man can satisfy his needs but not his greed

I think they were greedy, heartless, insensitive, unprofessional, unethical.

Sathya Baba

Peace can only be won the hard way, by eliminating violence and greed from the hearts of individual.

Charlie Pierce

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

Brian Lee

Rising prices are not just greedy people lining their pockets,

James Surowiecki

It's a familiar truism that at any one moment, financial markets are dominated by either fear or greed. But the healthiest markets are those that are animated by both fear and greed at the same time.

John Denver

If as an environmentalist we are against anything... it is against the arrogance of power and the most obcene ways it shows up, which is in greed.

Henry Spencer

Altruism is a fine motive, but if you want results, greed works much better.

Jose Marti

But love, like the sun that it is, sets afire and melts everything. what greed and privilege to build up over whole centuries the indignation of a pious spirit, with its natural following of oppressed souls, will cast down with a single shove.

Jonathan Swift

There is no vice which humankind carries to such wild extremes as that of avarice.

Mahatma Gandhi

The earth has enough resources for our need, but not for our greed.

Mahatma Gandhi

The earth has everything for all human needs, but nothing for his greed.

Mahatma Gandhi

There is enough for the need of everyone in this world, but not for the greed of everyone.

Fridtjof Nansen

The whole plan of extermination was nothing less than a cold blooded, calculated political measure, having for its object the annihilation of a superior element in the population, which might prove troublesome, and to this must be added the motive of greed.

Oliver Stone

There is nothing inherently wrong with greed as a human motivator-greed motivating evolution.

Henry Ford

Greed is merely a species of nearsightedness.

Ayn Rand

If parasitism, favoritism, corruption, and greed for the unearned did not exist, a mixed economy would bring them into existence.

Ayn Rand

Capitalism has been called a system of greed—yet it is the system that raised the standard of living of its poorest citizens to heights no collectivist system has ever begun to equal, and no tribal gang can conceive of.

Anna Jameson

Avarice is to the intellect what sensuality is to the morals

Elbert Hubbard

It is easy to get everything you want, provided you first learn to do without the things you cannot get.

Joe Franklin

The whole idea is never to get greedy indoors.

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.

Jakob Dylan

But there's got to be an opening somewhere here in front of me. Through this maze of ugliness and greed.

Jamais Cascio

Greed, accident, or malice may have harmful results, but, barring something truly apocalyptic, a resilient system can absorb such results without its overall health being threatened.

Isaac Asimov

If you ask for too much, you lose even that which you have.

Immanuel Kant

The enjoyment of power inevitably corrupts the judgment of reason, and perverts its liberty.

Georges Courteline

If we had to tolerate in others all that we permit in ourselves, life would become completely unbearable.

Jacques Yves Cousteau

If we go on the way we have, the fault is our greed and if we are not willing to change, we will disappear from the face of the globe, to be replaced by the insect.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Possessions are usually diminished by possession.