Famous Quotes & Sayings

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Logan Pearsall Smith

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

Jonathan Ive

As consumers we are incredibly discerning, we sense where has been great care in the design, and when there is cynicism and 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.'

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.

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.

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.

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.

John Kenneth Galbraith

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

Ovid

I could not possibly count the gold-digging ruses of women, Not if I had ten mouths, not if I had ten tongues.

Terry Tempest Williams

Greed is a deprivation of abundance, a hoarding, a constriction of energy.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Want is a growing giant whom the coat of have was never large enough to cover.

Pearl S. Buck

Purposeless activity may be a phase of death.

Peter Schiff

Greed is normally balanced by fear.

Rabindranath Tagore

Those who own much have much to fear.

Thomas Carlyle

Laissez-faire, supply and demand-one begins to be weary of all that. Leave all to egotism, to ravenous greed of money, of pleasure, of applause-it is the gospel of despair.

Saint Patrick

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

Sean O'Casey

Politics - I don't know why, but they seem to have a tendency to separate us, to keep us from one another, while nature is always and ever making efforts to bring us together.

Richard Armitage

You have to remove your human sentiment when it comes to greed and the accumulation of wealth.

Ruby Dee

Classism and greed are making insignificant all the other kinds of isms.

Robert Herrick

Who covets more is evermore a slave.