Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Jean de La Fontaine

We risk all in being too greedy.

Horace

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

Eric Cantona

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Henry Spencer

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

Henry Ford

Greed is merely a species of nearsightedness.

Jonathan Swift

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

Oliver Stone

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

Mason Cooley

Lust and greed are more gullible than innocence.

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.

Sharon Shinn

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

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.

Joe Biden

When the stock market crashed, Franklin Roosevelt got on the television and didn't just talk about the princes of greed. He said, 'Look, here's what happened.'

Logan Pearsall Smith

The lusts and greeds of the body scandalize the Soul; but it has to come to heel.

John Kenneth Galbraith

The privileged have regularly invited their own destruction with their greed.

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.