1,220 Quotes About Greed

Right or not, I love two things more than anything else. First, I love me. Second, I love using you to love me. And if I were to add a third thing to this mess, it would be that neither of these are love.

Life is short and lasts but five minutes as the saying goes!. Thus!, In the end!, death is but a fleeting whisper that which comes to all..Rich or poor, Slavemaster or slave...Tyrant or the oppressed!...ergo such a fool is he, who for the appeasing of his intemperate rapacity for the hoarding of gilded gold and worldly power... Inflicts upon his fellow man, such great pain, misery, and death!..ALAS!, for rewards that which, last but only..Five minutes!.

Stinginess is a crude survival trait.

I think we live in a culture of cruelty. What else can you call it?”-Shenita Etwaroo

In Zen training the hungry ghost realm ... presents as the attempt to “get” emptiness. “I needed so much to have nothing to touch,” sings Leonard Cohen, “I’ve always been greedy this way.

Healing the sick was once considered a sacred gift bestowed on mortals by the gods. Let the investors find their recompense in the good they have done and not in monetary returns alone.

The pathology of greed is always greater than the object that greed pursues. Therefore, anything obtained by greed will eventually be killed by the very greed that worked so diligently to possess it. Hence, the pathology.

The man afflicted by hunger for power or money for its own sake is just that: afflicted. He is tormented by incessant desires for more without cause. He is the most likely to wear a social mask to succeed, and thus he is always unsure of himself and his life, the deep tear inside always causing him to obsess about how to get more, why he doesn't have it already, and whom he will have to please or become in order to get it.

We founded this nation under the illusory notion of independence, that a man’s life is entirely distinct from the life of his neighbor; that the poisons in his water have no bearing on the cleanliness of his neighbor’s water; that the suffering of a laborer has no direct relationship to the purchaser of goods; that animals are objects for sale; that the health of the land is divorced from the health of the collective. We’ve turned freedom from tyranny into freedom from each other.