Greedy Quotes

Do we ignore the needyto spite the greedy?Or share and defenddespite those who pretend?

Greed is a little bit more than enough.

Let us be greedy together; let us hoard. Let us hit each other with birch branches and lock each other in dungeons; let us drink each other's blood in the night and betray each other in the sun. Let us lie and lust and take hundreds of lovers; let us dance until snow melts between us. Let us steal and eat until we grow fat and roll in the pleasures of life, clutching each other for purchase.

Don't rush your legs to feed your greed. They will rush to judge you as the greedy one.

Leave the quarters of the close-fisted selfishness and live in the edifice of an open-handed generosity. God gives to you, so you can share when it's required of you! Give out; conquer greed!

Greed is a contagious mental illness without which civilization as we know it would not have been possible.

Beware of those who are always hungry, for they will feed you to the wolves just to get paid.

The best I can do is to ‘pretend’ that I’m my own god. But in the pretending I have to pretend that I’m not pretending, and somehow that doesn’t sound very god-like to me.

Any system that values profit over human life is a very dangerous one indeed.

I believe this; "When you have a needy person in your neighbourhood, it's an opportunity for you to become a wealthy and healthy person!" Giving time is blessing time!

We can assume that those who ‘have it all’ and express an arrogant and greedy attitude, appears to be unthankful.

The shortest short-term investment is to serve ourselves.

The devil would be powerless if he couldn't entice people to do his work. So as long as money continues to seduce the hungry, the hopeless, the broken, the greedy, and the needy, there will always be war between brothers.

We cherish reprobates, not for their cruelty, but for their little show of patronage.

The problem: If you've an antique for sale, then, sad to relate, the world isn't your oyster. It's not that easy. Even if somebody gives you the National Gallery, your options are still very, very limited. Okay, you can sell the Old Masters, set up a trust, buy your favorite brewery. But that's strictly it. You're limited by honesty on one hand and law - that hobble of sanity - on the other.

If it has anything to do with me, it has nothing to do with sacrifice.

If it’s about me, I can be assured that there will be a bunch of empty chairs in the auditorium of my life; save the one I’m sitting in.

Greed squeezes your dreams into a portable size, so that failure can easily carry them to dump somewhere.

One of the fastest ways to dispel greed is for a person to realize how blessed he already is.

As utterly irrational as it might seem, the greed within me has the most limited vision I can possibly imagine as it has eyes only for the few things it doesn’t have, and it is completely blind to all the many remarkable things that it does.

You can dress up greed, but you can’t stop the stench.