1,220 Quotes About Greed

America is a nation of immigrants who forgot where they came from and poor people who think they'll soon be rich.

Money!...Is like that of a tyranny...From necessity, one must submit to its arbitrary rein...While secretly despising and holding it in absolute contempt and aversion!

This was the kind of home that was safely hidden from the eyes of those who could not afford to live this way. That's what wealth does for you, she thought. It gives you the means and the power to remain concealed from the world if you choose - or if you need to.

Some might say that attempting to gain everything is the best way to lose everything. To the contrary, I would argue that if I’ve spent my life trying to gain everything, I never had anything to lose in the first place.

The absence of anger-pride-deceit-greed has been referred to as Charitra (Conduct of the Self).

When the leaders were older than me I could believe in their wisdom, I could believe they had transcended rage and malice and the need to be loved. Now I know better. I look at the faces in newspapers, in magazines, and wonder: what greeds, what furies drive them on?

I view doctors as the vampires of the medical insurance industry.

Saiyam parinaam (a resultant state free of anger-pride-deceit-greed and attachment-abhorrence) is not an activity of the Self. It is an intermediate state. The activity of the Self happen when the independent [original] Self is Seen.  

The one who does not have even a trace of sexual thoughts is referred to as a saiyam parinaami (one who is free of anger-pride-deceit-greed, attachment-abhorrence).