Greed Quotes

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  Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction.

  Erich Fromm

  Effort, Needs, Pits

  Erich Fromm (2013). “Escape from Freedom”, p.121, Open Road Media

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• It is not the man who has little, but he who desires more, that is poor.

  Seneca the Younger

  Business, Men, Thinking

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• The evil in our desires typically does not lie in what we want, but that we want it too much.

  John Calvin

  Lying, Evil, Desire

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• The vocabulary of the political left is fascinating. For example, it is considered to be 'materialistic' and 'greedy' to want to keep what you have earned. But it is 'idealistic' to want to take away what someone else has earned and spend it for your own political benefit or to feel good about yourself.

  Thomas Sowell

  Money, Vocabulary, Political

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• Three great forces rule the world: stupidity, fear and greed.

  Albert Einstein

  Stupidity, Three, World

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• Leadership is a privilege to better the lives of others. It is not an opportunity to satisfy personal greed.

  Mwai Kibaki

  Leadership, Power, Opportunity

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• Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Nature

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• Nothing makes us more vulnerable than loneliness except greed.

  Thomas Harris

  Lonely, Loneliness, Being Alone

  Thomas Harris (2009). “The Silence of the Lambs”, p.319, Macmillan

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• From the first day to this, sheer greed was the driving spirit of civilization.

  Friedrich Engels

  Philosophical, Civilization, Firsts

  Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels (2016). “Delphi Collected Works of Karl Marx (Illustrated)”, p.1120, Delphi Classics

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• 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

  Greatness, Compassion, Action

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• True happiness comes from having a sense of inner peace and contentment, which in turn must be achieved by cultivating altruism, love and compassion, and by eliminating anger, selfishness and greed.

  Dalai Lama

  Happy, Compassion, Inner Peace

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• The life of sensation is the life of greed; it requires more and more. The life of the spirit requires less and less.

  Annie Dillard

  Spirit, Sensations, Writing Life

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• If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Life, Change, Happiness

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Hobbit”, p.152, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Greed is the inventor of injustice as well as the current enforcer.

  Julian Casablancas

  Injustice, Currents, Inventor

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• If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.

  Socrates

  Life, Money, Men

  Socrates, Plato, Aristotle (1967). “Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study”

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• We risk all in being too greedy.

  Jean de La Fontaine

  Risk, Greedy, Greediness

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• When morality comes up against profit, it is seldom that profit loses.

  Shirley Chisholm

  Integrity, Patriotic, Power

  Shirley Chisholm (2010). “Unbought and Unbossed: Expanded 40th Anniversary Edition”, p.124, Take Root Media

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• The greedy man is incontent with a whole world set before him.

  Saadi

  Men, World, Whole

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• Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, What's in it for me?

  Brian Tracy

  Inspirational, Positive, Success

  FaceBook post by Brian Tracy from Jul 31, 2012

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• If your only goal is to become rich, you will never achieve it.

  John D. Rockefeller

  Money, Business, Goal

  John D. Rockefeller (2015). “John D. Rockefeller on Making Money: Advice and Words of Wisdom on Building and Sharing Wealth”, p.16, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of the rich on the poor.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Men, Animal, Economic Inequality

  Letter to Colonel Edward Carrington, 16 January 1787

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• Selfishness and greed, individual or national, cause most of our troubles.

  Harry S. Truman

  Selfishness, Causes, Trouble

  Truman, Harry S. (1962). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Harry S. Truman, 1946, Volume 2”, p.512, Best Books on

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• Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell.

  Edward Abbey

  Inspirational, Nature, Cancer

  Quoted in Reader's Digest, Jan. 1970

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• Some people are afraid of generosity. They feel they will be taken advantage of or oppressed. In cultivating generosity, we are only oppressing our greed and attachment. This allows our true nature to come out and become lighter and freer.

  Ajahn Chah

  Nature, Taken, Attachment

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• He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose.

  Jim Elliot

  Inspirational, Motivational, Christian

  "Blessed are the Persecuted". Sermon by Pastor Jason Lim, gospellight.sg. July 09, 2017.

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