Greed Quotes - Page 33

• Animals are neither gods nor fiends, but men in their way without the lust and greed of man.

  Robert E. Howard

  Animal, Men, Lust

  Robert E. Howard (2006). “Kull: Exile of Atlantis”, p.27, Del Rey

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• The man who sailed around his soul From East to West, from pole to pole With ego as his drunken captain Greed, the mutineer, had trapped all reason in the hold

  Andy Partridge

  Men, Ego, Soul

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• Not in the name of a necessary protection of the white race did the European break into China, but for the benefit of the Jewish-mercantile greed for profit. He thus dishonored himself, destroying a whole civilization, provoking justified indignation. China fights for its myth, for its race, and its ideals, as does the renewal-movement in Germany against the mercantile race that rules all stock markets and the actions of most governments.

  Alfred Rosenberg

  Fighting, Civilization, Names

  "The Myth of the Twentieth Century". Book by Alfred Rosenberg, 1930.

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• I think it's a shame when the arts have to suffer because of corporate greed. People will always strive to make film, and the only important thing is that we keep trying to make ourselves heard and keep making our films, no matter what the climate is.

  Paddy Considine

  Art, Thinking, People

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• Riots born out of political issues aren't the same as those born out of personal greed.

  Ross Kemp

  Issues, Political, Born

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• As we get older it is our short term memory that fades rather than our long term memory. Perhaps we have evolved like this so that we are able to tell the younger generation about the stories and experiences that have formed us which may be important to subsequent generations if they are to thrive.I worry though, about what might happen to our minds if most of the stories we hear are about greed, war, and atrocity

  Philippa Perry

  Memories, War, Worry

  Philippa Perry, The School of Life (2012). “How to Stay Sane”, p.75, Pan Macmillan

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• Suckers think that you cure greed with money, addiction with substances, expert problems with experts, banking with bankers, economics with economists, and debt crises with debt spending

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Thinking, Addiction, Bankers

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2010). “The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms”, p.88, Penguin UK

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• Meditation may require a lifetime to master, but it will have been a lifetime well spent. ... If you want to judge your progress, ask yourself these questions: Am I more loving? Is my judgment sounder? Do I have more energy? Can my mind remain calm under provocation? Am I free from the conditioning of anger, fear, and greed? Spiritual awareness reveals itself as eloquently in character development and selfless action as in mystical states.

  Eknath Easwaran

  Spiritual, Character, Judging

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• I may say that I think greed about poetry is the only permissible greed - it is, indeed, unavoidable.

  Edith Sitwell

  Thinking, Poetry, May

  Edith Sitwell (Dame), John Lehmann, Derek Parker (1970). “Selected letters”, MacMillan

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• Cruelty was the devil, and most people were, in one way or another, cruel. Tyranny, suppression, persecution, torture, slavery, war, neglect - all were cruel. The world was acid and sour with hate, fat with greed, yellow with the triumph of the strong and the rich.

  Rose Macaulay

  Strong, Hate, War

  Rose Macaulay (Dame.) (1940). “And No Man's Wit”

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• No, I most certainly do not think advertising people are wonderful. I think they are horrible, and the worst menace to mankind, next to war; perhaps ahead of war. They stand for the material viewpoint, for the importance of possessions, of desire, of envy, of greed. And war comes from these things.

  Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

  War, Thinking, People

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• jewels have played a colorful part in the evolution of world affairs. Because precious stones tend to inspire both admiration and greed, leaders have found convenient excuses for seeking them and have used them to impress crowds, reward friends, deprive foes, forge alliances, and justify war. Jewels may find their highest expression in the decorative arts, but they have also earned a place in the art of the possible.

  Madeleine Albright

  Art, War, Expression

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• The mark of genius is an incessant activity of mind. Genius is a spiritual greed.

  V. S. Pritchett

  Spiritual, Mind, Genius

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• Greed is at the bottom of most of the wrong-doing with which government has to deal.

  William Jennings Bryan

  Government, Deals, Bottom

  William Jennings Bryan (1922). “In His Image: By William Jennings Bryan”

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• The party which is out sees nothing but graft and incapacity in the party which is in; and the party which is in sees nothing but greed and animosity in the party which is out.

  Agnes Repplier

  Party, Political, Incapacity

  Agnes Repplier (1924). “Under dispute”

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• A big man is always accused of gluttony, whereas a wizened or osseous man can eat like a refugee at every meal, and no one ever notices his greed.

  Robertson Davies

  Men, Meals, Bigs

  Robertson Davies (1949). “The Table Talk of Samuel Marchbanks”, Clarke, Irwin

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• avarice is especially, I suppose, a disease of the imagination.

  Sara Coleridge

  Imagination, Disease, Avarice

  Sara Coleridge Coleridge (1873). “Memoir and Letters of Sara Coleridge”, p.131

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• In these times gain is not only a matter of greed, but of ambition.

  Joseph Joubert

  Ambition, Matter, Riches

  Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

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• The price of peace is to abandon greed and replace it with giving, so that none will be spiritually injured by having more than they need while others in the world still have less than they need.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Peace, Giving, Needs

  Peace Pilgrim (1992). “Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words”, p.110, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

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• Chicago's downtown seems to me to constitute, all in all, the best-looking twentieth-century city, the city where contemporary technique has best been matched by artistry, intelligence, and comparatively moderated greed. No doubt about it, if style were the one gauge, Chicago would be among the greatest of all the cities of the world.

  Jan Morris

  Cities, Doubt, Style

  Jan Morris (1993). “Locations”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Greed can be very dangerous because you sacrifice your soul for the sake of something material, and then you start sacrificing people in order to keep that which is material.

  Eartha Kitt

  Sacrifice, Order, People

  "Kitt takes down-to-Eartha approach to her finances". usatoday30.usatoday.com. July 16, 2001.

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• People always should know better. People don't get - they don't get smarter about things that get as basic as greed.

  Warren Buffett

  People, Should, Knows

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• What in the rising man was industry and economy, becomes in the rich man parsimony and avarice.

  Sarah Josepha Hale

  Men, Rising, Rich

  Sarah Josepha Buell Hale (1832). “Ladies' Magazine and Literary Gazette”, p.156

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• having too much is never enough.

  Arianna Huffington

  Too Much, Enough

  Arianna Huffington (2009). “Pigs at the Trough: How Corporate Greed and Political Corruption Are Undermining America”, p.4, Crown

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• Clarity and perseverance are difficult in American society because the basis of capitalism is greed and dissatisfaction.

  Natalie Goldberg

  Perseverance, Clarity, Difficult

  Natalie Goldberg (1990). “Wild Mind: Living the Writer's Life”, Bantam

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