1,220 Quotes About Greed
- Author Franklin D. Roosevelt
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We must especially beware of that small group of selfish men who would clip the wings of the American Eagle in order to feather their own nests.
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- Author Tamuna Tsertsvadze
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If you lead conquering wars so recklessly, you will lose what you already have and gain nothing new.
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- Author Alan Bennett
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Today's ideology masquerades as pragmatism with that pragmatism reduced to the simplistic assumption that the basis of human nature is self-interest, a view which discount philanthropy, discredits altruism, with the only motive deserving of trust self-promotion and self-advancement.This so-called pragmatism is wicked and it is doubly so because it is held up as being both realistic and a virtue. Whereas it is shallow, shabby and all too often callous.
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- Author Shenita Etwaroo
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Factory farms don’t even consider animals to be real living things. They consider them to be protein units per square foot.”-Shenita Etwaroo
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- Author E.A. Bucchianeri
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There's a difference between a blessed increase and greedy oversolicitous hoarding.
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- Author Ayn Rand
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I and they, my chosen friends, my fellow-builders, shall write the firsts chapter in the new history of man
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- Author John Steinbeck
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Having too many THINGS," he says, "[Americans] spend their hours and money on the couch searching for a soul. A strange species we are. We can stand anything God and Nature throw at us save only plenty. If I wanted to destroy a nation, I would give it too much and I would have it on its knees, miserable, greedy and sick.
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- Author Shenita Etwaroo
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Animal testing doesn’t actually teach us anything. It sure as heck doesn’t teach them anything, either.”-Shenita Etwaroo
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- Author Frank C. Laubach
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It is that spirit of greed which Jesus said God hated more than any other. It is so diametrically opposite to the Spirit of God. For God forever lavishes His gifts upon the good and bad alike, and finds all His joy in endless giving.
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