Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jean de la Bruyere

There are some sordid minds, formed of slime and filth, to whom interest and gain are what glory and virtue are to superior souls; they feel no other pleasure but to acquire money.

James Earl Jones

There is a very fine line between love and nausea.

Margaret Atwood

Hope drives us to invent new fixes for old messes, which in turn create ever more dangerous messes. Hope elects the politician with the biggest empty promise; and as any stockbroker or lottery seller knows, most of us will take a slim hope over prudent and predictable frugality. Hope, like greed, fuels the engine of capitalism.

Publilius Syrus

The miser is as much in want of what he has as of what he has not.

Publilius Syrus

Avarice is as destitute of what it has, as poverty of what it has not.

Publilius Syrus

Poverty wants much; but avarice, everything.

Jean de La Fontaine

Such gluttony second to none Almost ended fatally When a bone choked a wolf as he gulped what he ate

Jean de La Fontaine

We risk all in being too greedy.

Michael Douglas

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

Sharon Shinn

I was Amazement--I was Desire--I was Ecstasy and Rapture and the slightest bit of Greed.

Lillian Hellman

Callous greed grows pious very fast.

Michel de Montaigne

It is not necessity but abundance which produces greed.

Mason Cooley

Lust and greed are more gullible than innocence.

Paul Samuelson

It isn't that greed's increased. What's increased is the realization that you've got a free field to reach out for what you'd like to do.

Paul Samuelson

An intriguing paradox of the 1990s is that it isn't called a decade of greed.

Josh Brolin

I love the competitive part of stocks. A lot of fear and greed, that's all it is. All I see is green and red.

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.

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.

Horace

Care clings to wealth: the thirst for more Grows as our fortunes grow.

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.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Possessions are usually diminished by possession.

Jennifer Stone

Greed stains our culture, soaks our sensibilities and has replaced grace as a sign of our intimacy with the divine.

Georges Courteline

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

Oliver Stone

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

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

Mahatma Gandhi

There are sufficient resources on this planet to answer the needs of all, but not enough to satisfy everyone's greed.

Mahatma Gandhi

The saving of labour of the individual should be the object and honest humanitarian considerations, and not greed, the motive.

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.