Quotes
Quotes about Greed
Commemoration of Richard Rolle of Hampole, Writer, Hermit, Mystic, 1349 Lord Jesu, I ask Thee, give unto me movement in Thy love without measure; desire without limit; longing without order; burning without discretion. Truly the better the love of Thee is, the greedier it is; for neither by reason is it restrained, nor be dread thronged, nor by doom tempted.
What are facts but compromises? A fact merely marks the point where we have agreed to let investigation cease.
The more gross the fraud, the more glibly will it go down and the more greedily will it be swallowed, since folly will always find faith wherever imposters will find impudence.
I have never in my life learned anything from any man who agreed with me.
I guess I kinda lost control, because in the middle of the play I ran up and lit the evil puppet villain on fire. No, I didn't. Just kidding. I just said that to help illustrate one of the human emotions, which is freaking out. Another emotion is greed, as when you kill someone for money, or something like that. Another emotion is generosity, as when you pay someone double what he paid for his stupid puppet.
There is enough in the world for everyone's need, but not enough for everyone's greed.
I often wish ... that I could rid the world of the tyranny of facts. What are facts but compromises? A fact merely marks the point where we have agreed to let investigation cease.
The monstrous evils of the twentieth century have shown us that the greediest money grubbers are gentle doves compared with money-hating wolves like Lenin, Stalin, and Hitler, who in less than three decades killed or maimed nearly a hundred million men, women, and children and brought untold suffering to a large portion of mankind.
Greed is all right, by the way I think greed is healthy. You can be greedy and still feel good about yourself.
The man that weds for greedy wealth, He goes a fishing fair, But often times he gets a frog, Or very little share.
When if or chance or hunger's powerful sway Directs the roving trout this fatal way, He greedily sucks in the twining bait, And tugs and nibbles the fallacious meat. Now, happy fisherman; now twitch the line! How thy rod bends! behold, the prize is thine!
The more gross the fraud the more glibly will it go down, and the more greedily be swallowed, since folly will always find faith where impostors will find imprudence.
Friendship is the only thing in the world concerning the usefulness of which all mankind are agreed.
Curst greed of gold, what crimes thy tyrant power has caused.
There is enough in the world for everyone's need, but not enough for everyone's greed.
A greedy person and a pauper are practically one and the same.
Greed is all right, by the way I think greed is healthy. You can be greedy and still feel good about yourself.
To greed, all nature is insufficient.
The point is that you can't be too greedy.
The greed of gain has no time or limit to its capaciousness. Its one object is to produce and consume. It has pity neither for beautiful nature nor for living human beings. It is ruthlessly ready without a moment's hesitation to crush beauty and life.
There is no fire like passion, there is no shark like hatred, there is no snare like folly, there is no torrent like greed.
What is history but a fable agreed upon?
So much attention is paid to the aggressive sins, such as violence and cruelty and greed with all their tragic effects, that too little attention is paid to the passive sins, such as apathy and laziness, which in the long run can have a more devastating and destructive effect upon our society than the others.
I pleaded your cause, Sextus, having agreed to do so for two thousand sesterces. How is it that you have sent me only a thousand? "You said nothing," you tell me; "and this cause was lost through you." You ought to give me so much the more, Sextus, as I had to blush for you.
The everyday kindness of the back roads more than makes up for the acts of greed in the headlines. . -Charles Kuralt.
