1,220 Quotes About Greed

Greed is the performance art of the 21st Century.

Always somewhere there is fire or smoke, insistent reminders of the greed consuming the world

Which is worse? Lust for the purchasing power of money, or the kind of lust that covets power over others? Let the history of 20th Century socialist revolutions answer that question.

Who gives you pain? Your anger, pride, illusion and greed. Where is the fault of the nature in all this?

The awareness that ‘money will get spent’ must never be kept; whatever gets spent at whatever time is correct. That’s why it was told to spend money, so that they can be free from greed and they can give it again and again.

And there can be no end to greed because man, by his very exclusive human nature, is pathologically insatiable.

Возможность иметь больше чем у других затуманивает разум человека, делает его рабом богатства, пусть даже не существующего. Сладостная песня жадности много обещает, но мало дает! А стоит лишь поколебать ее струны, и она может завладеть и душой, и телом, и разумом, и чувствами…

Do not create opportunities for beasts and evils to take charge of your life.

Greed has two teachers; one is a cheat [a crafty person] and the other one is financial loss. When one incurs loss; it will quickly destroy the tuber of greed.