(303 quotes found)
“There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up.”
Oscar Wilde
“Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's need, but not every man's greed”
Mahatma Gandhi
“Leadership is a privilege to better the lives of others. It is not an opportunity to satisfy personal greed.”
Mwai Kibaki
“All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry”
Edgar Allan Poe
“We tend to forget that happiness doesn't come as a result of getting something we don't have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have.”
Frederick Keonig
“Inflamed by greed, incensed by hate, confused by delusion, overcome by them, obsessed by mind, a man chooses for his own affliction, for others' affliction, for the affliction of both and experiences pain and grief”
Buddha
“It's time for greatness -- not for greed. It's a time for idealism -- not ideology. It is a time not just for compassionate words, but compassionate action.”
Marian Wright Edelman
“Greed, like the love of comfort, is a kind of fear.”
Cyril Connolly
“A greedy father has thieves for children”
Serbian Proverb
“Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction.”
Erich Fromm
