Quotes about Greed
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
If you think that someone is out to steal everything you have, you're either paranoid or a member of the middle class.
— Robert Brault
We people aren't too different from the cows, are we? Never content with what we have, always leaning through the fence in search of more.
— Lauraine Snelling
Short is the way from need to greed.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
The Woman and Her Hen A WOMAN possessed a Hen that gave her an egg every day. She often pondered how she might obtain two eggs daily instead of one, and at last, to gain her purpose, determined to give the Hen a double allowance of barley. From that day the Hen became fat and sleek, and never once laid another egg.
— Aesop
The covetous are poor givers.
— Aesop