1,220 Quotes About Greed

The most alarming sign of the state of our society now is that our leaders have the courage to sacrifice the lives of young people in war but have not the courage to tell us that we must be less greedy and less wasteful.

The source of evil is desire, greed, and anger.

More people have died in the name of religion than any other cause on earth. Is massacring God's creations really serving God - or the devil? And what father would want to see his children constantly divided and fighting? What God would allow a single human life to be sacrificed for monetary gain? Again, the Creator or the devil?

Income from labor [in the United States] is about as unequally distributed as has ever been observed anywhere.

It is in the nature of man to want what he does not have. This modern concern for happiness seems a real testimony of its absence.

...shiny trinkets and frivolous spending make people forget what world they're living in.

Hatred and greed are heavy loads. Your motive, on the other hand, is love. And instead of priding yourselves on your cunning, you recognize how weak you are...so weak that you must depend totally on the Spirit of God.

You need to be greedy or ignorant to truly want to live forever.

We need to take things personally. We need to stop putting profits above people. We need to stop putting greed above need. We need to stop putting the rule of gold above the golden rule. We need to treat people as people and not as problems.