1,220 Quotes About Greed

The temptation of wanting something is greater than giving

The cult of myself is the most dangerous cult I can join.

Because there is hunger. Like any desire, it’s only temporarily satisfied, which calls into question the reliability of satisfaction and whether such a state can be said to exist at all. Anything we eat knows us more intimately than a lover. Not merely the inside of our mouth but the esophagus, stomach, alimentary canal, upper and lower colon, sphincter. Everything we desire, we shit out and leave behind.

I cannot tell you that I am owed anything. But I can tell you that I owe everything.

Give the man a land, he'll bury himself in it.

While many might disagree with me, I do not believe that it’s a small step from independence to entitlement and then anarchy. Rather, I think it’s something more like a slight shuffle on the edge of a steep cliff.

In order to make them overlook our greed, or to make us seem less greedy than we are, we sometimes remind some people that, if and when we catch it, the wealth that we are relentlessly chasing would enable us to help a lot of poor people.

Greed will dissolve everything. There is even greed for pride!

A greedy person doesn't even waste time for laughing. He is preoccupied with greed all day long.