(304 quotes found)
“The greed of gain has no time or limit to its capaciousness. Its one object is to produce and consume. It has pity neither for beautiful nature nor for living human beings. It is ruthlessly ready without a moment's hesitation to crush beauty and life”
Rabindranath Tagore
“It is greed to do all the talking but not to want to listen at all”
Democritus
“The writer's greed is appalling. He wants, or seems to want, everything and practically everybody, in another sense, and at the same time, he needs no one at all.”
James Arthur Baldwin
“...Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.”
Stephen King
“The true antidote to greed is contentment. If you have a strong sense of contentment, it doesn't matter whether you obtain the object of your desire or not. Either way, you are still content.”
Tenzin Gyatso The 14th Dalai Lama
“Politicians never accuse you of 'greed' for wanting other people's money - only for wanting to keep your own money”
Joseph Sobran
“So much attention is paid to the aggressive sins, such as violence and cruelty and greed with all their tragic effects, that too little attention is paid to the passive sins, such as apathy and laziness, which in the long run can have a more devastating effect.”
Eleanor Roosevelt
“I have news for the forces of greed and the defenders of the status quo; your time has come and gone. It's time for change in America.”
Bill Clinton
“The curse of the romantic is a greed for dreams, an intensity of expectation that, in the end, diminishes the reality”
Marya Mannes
“Hell has three gates: lust, anger, and greed”
Bhagavad Gita
