Quotes
Quotes about Greed
It is greed to do all the talking but not to want to listen at all.
There are three all-powerful evils: lust, anger and greed.
Memory [is] like a purse,--if it be over-full that it cannot shut, all will drop out of it. Take heed of a gluttonous curiosity to feed on many things, lest the greediness of the appetite of thy memory spoil the digestion thereof.
A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good behavior, given to hospitality, apt to teach: Not given to wine, no striker, not greedy of filthy lucre; but patient, not a brawler, not covetous; One that ruleth well his own house, having his children in subjection with all gravity; (For if a man know not how to rule his own house, how shall he take care of the church of God?)
Why and Wherefore set out one day, To hunt for a wild Negation. They agreed to meet at a cool retreat On the Point of Interrogation.
The history of an oppressed people is hidden in the lies and the agreed myth of its conquerors.
Like as a feareful partridge, that is fledd From the sharpe hauke which her attacked neare, And falls to ground to seeke for succor theare, Whereas the hungry spaniells she does spye, With greedy jawes her ready for to teare.
To be truly selfish one needs a degree of self-esteem. The self-despisers are less intent on their own increase than on the diminution of others. Where self-esteem is unattainable, envy takes the place of greed.
What are facts but compromises? A fact merely marks the point where we have agreed to let investigation cease.
Calm self-confidence is as far from conceit as the desire to earn a decent living is remote from greed.
...man has an irrepressible tendency to read meaning into the buzzing confusion of sights and sounds impinging on his senses; and where no agreed meaning can be found, he will provide it out of his own imagination.
No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If weâre looking for the sources of our troubles, we shouldnât test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power.
Even in a time of elephantine vanity and greed, one never has to look far to see the campfires of gentle people.
The media have just buried the last yuppie, a pathetic creature who had not heard the news that the great pendulum of public conciousness has just swung from Greed to Compassion and from Tex-Mex to meatballs.
