Quotes about Greed
The love of money is the root of all evil. It blinds the vision and prevents people from discerning their obligations to God or to their neighbors.
- Ellen White
We are a puny and fickle folk. Avarice, hesitation, and following are our diseases.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is one thing to be judgmental; it is entirely different to say greed is wrong or that sexual sins are wrong, and saying so is not judgmentalism.
- Scot McKnight
For the children with their greedy little mouths represent the future, which like time itself will devour all now alive.
- Margaret Atwood
A fortune for one man that was more than he needed should not be build on ten thousand ruined men who were left without the means of life.
- Arthur Conan Doyle
Run for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That sentence is the leper's bell of an approaching looter.
- Ayn Rand
Money is the barometer of society's virtue.
- Ayn Rand
Worry soils, even the purest mind.Envy poisons, even the purest heart.Greed sullies, even the purest soul.
- Matshona Dhliwayo
Charity is fortune, avarice is poverty, peace is treasure, and happiness is wealth.
- Matshona Dhliwayo
the Devil]... stands waiting for them, like greedy hungry lions that see their prey, and expect to have it...
- Jonathan Edwards
The result is that it has become humanly impossible for many around the globe to hear the good news as good. Instead, because of its kingdom-of-the-world associations, they hear the gospel as bad news, as American news, exploitive capitalistic news, greedy news, violent news, and morally decadent news. They can't see the beauty of the cross because everything the American flag represents to them is in the way.
- Gregory Boyd
As to the Seven Deadly Sins, I deplore Pride, Wrath, Lust, Envy and Greed. Gluttony and Sloth I pretty much plan my day around.
- Robert Brault