1,220 Quotes About Greed

Be fearful when there is greed and be greedy when there is fear.

The avarice of the miser may be termed the grand sepulchral of all his other passions, as they successively decay.

Avarice has ruined more souls than extravagance.

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

If we had to tolerate in others all that we permit in ourselves, life would become completely unbearable.

Impatience is not the least of your faults, Malik, it is a kind of greed and someday it may see you undone.

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.

Keep your hands clean and pure from the infamous vice of corruption, a vice so infamous that it degrades even the other vices thatmay accompany it. Accept no present whatever; let your character in that respect be transparent and without the least speck, for as avarice is the vilest and dirtiest vice in private, corruption is so in public life.

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.