Quotes about Greed
I did not know that mankind was suffering for want of gold.
— Henry David Thoreau
True it is that covetousness is rich, modesty starves.
— John Milton
When a man says money can do anything, that settles it: he hasn't got any.
— George Bernard Shaw
There are two things men have never been able to satisfy: their curiosity and their greed.
— George Lucas
Money, we know, will fetch anything and command the service of any man.
— George Washington
Human beings may well be unable to break free of the dictatorship of greed that spreads like a miasma over the world, but no longer will we be an inarticulate and ignorant humanity, confused by our enslavement to superior cruelty and weaponry.
— Alice Walker
I guess if people couldn't profit from war I don't think there would be war.
— Lily Tomlin
Beware of greed and remain pure and just. Restrain yourself from every vice. He who cannot restrain himself, how will he be able to teach others restraint?
— Polycarp
The biggest human temptation is... to settle for too little.
— Thomas Merton
Every evil, harm and suffering in this life comes from the love of riches.
— Catherine of Siena
When all a man has is worldly wealth, he is poor indeed.
— Alistair Begg
Who is the covetous man? One for whom plenty is not enough.
— St. Basil