Quotes about Greed

All envy is proportionate to desire.

Does it follow, then, that progressives and socialists are entirely wrong when they say that there are rich people in the top 1 percent who are greedy selfish leeches, who don't deserve their money and who have gotten it by contributing little or nothing to society? Actually, no! Such people do exist, and they can be found among the ranks of the progressives and socialists themselves. Let's consider a few notorious examples.

In Obama's America, the wealth creators are greedy, selfish, and materialistic while the wealth stealers are the most morally wonderful people in the country.

Blessed are you when you pray for others. Shame on you when you pray out of selfishness and greed.

Greedily they plucked The fruitage fair to sight, like that which grew Near that bituminous lake where Sodom flamed; This more delusive, not the touch, but taste Deceived. They, fondly thinking to allay Their appetite with gust, instead of fruit Chewed bitter ashes

America is an enormous frosted cupcake in the middle of millions of starving people.

The universe does not favour the greedy, the dishonest, the vicious, although on the mere surface it may sometimes appear to do so; it helps the honest, the magnanimous, the virtuous.

Self-seeking is self-destruction

Anger has great strength, but no brains. Greed has a great appetite, but no heart.Pride has a great spirit, but no soul.

Pray for your needs, not your greed.

The covetous man pines in plenty, like Tantalus up to the chin in water, and yet thirsty.

That's just the point: an honest and sensitive man opens his heart, and the man of business goes on eating - and then he eats you up.