Quotes about Greed

If you love peace, then hate injustice, hate tyranny, hate greed ? but hate these things in yourself, not in another.

The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.

We may love money without having it, just as we may have money without loving it.

False riches, consisting of money, houses and lands, acquired by selfish means at cost to others and thereafter used selfishly, are almost always used for the oppression of other persons.

What is described in Scripture as the basic sin, the sin of taking things into your own hands, being your own god, grabbing what is there while you can get it, is now described as basic wisdom: improve yourself by whatever means you are able; get ahead regardless of the price, take care of me first.

When you grab all you can get, that's what happens: the more you get, the less you are.

Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world...would do this, it would change the earth.

Unless the exchange be in love and kindly justice, it will but lead some to greed and others to hunger.

Greed is not defined by what something costs; it is measured by what it costs you. If anything costs you your faith or your family, the price is too high. Such is the point Jesus makes in the parable of the portfolio.

Who can satisfy Madison Avenue? No one can. For that reason Jesus warns, "Be careful and guard against all kinds of greed" (Luke 12:15). from Cure for the Common Life

Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.

Whether we were in the mines of South Africa, or the liberal New York theater, nothing changed. Whites wanted everything. They thought they deserved everything. That they wanted to possess all the materials of the earth was in itself disturbing, but that they also wanted to control the souls and the pride of people was inexplicable.