1,220 Quotes About Greed

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Meera elaborated, “What we consistently create, we ultimately become. If we succumb to temptations often, lust becomes our nature. If we give rise to greed, gluttony becomes our nature. If we beget envy, hatred becomes our nature. You need to be strong

Compared to the life Jesus offers, mammon in any amount is poverty!

Where an attitude of thankfulness is not, greed takes root. And that root will only fall to the axe of thankfulness. Therefore, we need to hold both the attitude and the axe ever close so that the roots never are.

I do not doubt the principles upon which this nation has been erected. Nor do I doubt the ability nor the passion of the common person to uphold them. What I doubt are the leaders who get caught up in the drama of their own agendas to the point that the principles of this great republic become the stuff of fodder in the service of those agendas. That is what I doubt.

Are you looking for justice in a machine that is powered by greed?

. . . [P]eople don't want freedom. They only want to consume. They look at the commercials, totally captivated, and get into debt so they can buy everything.

But your laziness leads you astray;your greed makes you dumb;your gluttony makes enemies for you.

...so much attention is paid to the aggressive sins, such as violence and cruelty, and greed with all their tragic effects, that too little attention is paid to the passive sins, such as apathy and laziness, which in the long run can have a more devastating and destructive effect upon society than the others.