1,220 Quotes About Greed

The world has enough food resources to feed the humans but lust and greed knows no boundaries in human terms.

People don't look into their neighbor's bowl to see if he's got enough food. They look to see if that asshole has more. Greed is easy. Sharing's hard. It's why parents have to teach that instead of not hoarding shit. We're all hard wired for self-preservation. [Kai Gracen]

The potential within each of us is massive. And it is petrifying to think that a power that large and that wonderful can instantly fall to something as small and anemic as greed. Yet, what’s more frightening is not that we let that happen, but that we often invite that to happen.

You wring your hands to see it, and that's another illustration of love; in the end you are too heavy to move with the greediness of the stomach.

Sir Richard Branson who owns an island, lives on the island for the purposes of avoiding British taxes in the British Virgin islands, he's got his bowl out, demanding a 7.4 billion pound bailout for Virgin Airlines.

I am alive and ask nothing more.

Ruling classes have always sought to instill in their subordinates the capacity to experience exploitation and material deprivation as guilt, while deceiving themselves that their own material interests coincide with those of mankind as a whole.

Pangea split so now we're filled in a fit of pique.We brim with lust, spirit willing, but the flesh is weak.Consumed by greed, shoving everything down our throat.Sloth a cottonseed, weaving us, we are a coat.Zeal reveals our hearts conceal a deep and endless pit. Grudge we hold against the world, she owes us every bit. Iblis sees humanity's impending aftermath.So now my friend, a gift he gives, its ink is wrath.

This administrator of trade is the worst sort of bureaucrat. He abides by every rule, delights in making his own whenever it can inconvenience someone, and at the same time believes that he is doing good… I didn’t think I would ever meet a noble who wasn’t corrupt. Now that I have I find that I prefer them when they’re greedy bastards. - Brom