Quotes and Sayings About Greed
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I cannot bear not to know the end of a tale. I will read the most trivial things – once commenced – only out of a feverish greed to be able to swallow the ending – sweet or sour – and to be done with what I need never have embarked on. Are you in my case? Or are you a more discriminating reader? Do you lay aside the unprofitable?
-- A. S. Byatt -
But all of this action goes on in the dark, hidden underground. It’s called stealing or piracy, as if sharing a wealth of knowledge were the moral equivalent of plundering a ship and murdering its crew. But sharing isn’t immoral - it’s a moral imperative. Only those blinded by greed would refuse to let a friend make a copy.
-- Aaron Swartz -
Only those blinded by greed would refuse to let a friend make a copy.
-- Aaron Swartz -
Do not follow vain desires; for verily he who prospers is preserved from lust, greed and anger.
-- Abu Bakr -
People often grudge others what they cannot enjoy themselves.
-- Aesop -
Ours is an upbeat, a hurried, hasty beat. It keeps pressing us to go farther, to include everything so that we can savor everything, so that we can know everything, so that we will miss nothing. Partly it's greed, but mainly its curiosity. We just want to experience it. And we do.
-- Agnes de Mille -
The party which is out sees nothing but graft and incapacity in the party which is in; and the party which is in sees nothing but greed and animosity in the party which is out.
-- Agnes Repplier -
I certainly understand that we're all trying to make a living, but I'm not thinking about that when I'm making it. And if that's your sole motivation, it's going to reflect that narcissistic greed and you're going to hear it in the music.
-- Aimee Mann -
I contemplated my greed for peace. And I did not seek tranquillity anymore.
-- Ajahn Sumedho -
Unless the church is equipping believers to embrace the values and vision of the kingdom of God and turn away from the materialism, consumerism, greed, and power of the present age, it not only abandons its biblical mandate, it is rendered missionally ineffective.
-- Alan Hirsch -
Three great forces rule the world: stupidity, fear and greed.
-- Albert Einstein -
The innocence of those who grind the faces of the poor, but refrain from pinching the bottoms of their neighbour's wives! The innocence of Ford, the innocence of Rockefeller! The nineteenth century was the Age of Innocence--that sort of innocence. With the result that we're now almost ready to say that a man is seldom more innocently employed than when making love.
-- Aldous Huxley -
The main source of our wealth is goodness. The affections and the generous qualities that God admires in a world full of greed.
-- Alfred Armand Montapert -
There are 6 reasons that a person does anything: Love, faith, greed, boredom, fear... revenge.
-- Ally Carter -
Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
TARIFF, n. A scale of taxes on imports, designed to protect the domestic producer against the greed of his consumer.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
It's our greed to extract more and more from good that turns it into evil.
-- Amish Tripathi -
Time! Joyless emblem of the greed of millions, robber of the best which earth can give.
-- Amy Lowell -
While neurological studies have tried to identify components responsible for fear and greed, the impact on finance is less clear.
-- Andrew Lo -
Stealing to eat ain’t criminal—stealing to be rich is.
-- Andrew Vachss -
Fear and greed are potent motivators. When both of these forces push in the same direction, virtually no human being can resist.
-- Andrew Weil -
The man who sailed around his soul From East to West, from pole to pole With ego as his drunken captain Greed, the mutineer, had trapped all reason in the hold
-- Andy Partridge -
The business of business should not be about money. It should be about responsibility. It should be about public good, not private greed
-- Anita Roddick -
Fight only in direst need Not for lust or petty greed Honor those that do give birth Respect them well for their full worth
-- Anne McCaffrey -
I write because I want more than one life; I insist on a wider selection. It's greed, plain and simple.
-- Anne Tyler -
The life of sensation is the life of greed; it requires more and more. The life of the spirit requires less and less.
-- Annie Dillard -
We are moving from a chain of command to a web of connection, from competition to collaboration, from markets to networks and stockholders to stakeholders, and greed to green.
-- Anodea Judith -
There are men who gain from their wealth only the fear of losing it.
-- Antoine Rivarol -
This America has been the country of greed rather than the country of need.
-- Ariel Dorfman
