Quotes about Greed
Poverty wants some, luxury many, and avarice all things.
— Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Attachment to money will always create insecurity no matter how much money you have in the bank.
— Deepak Chopra
Karma means always wanting more of what won't get you anywhere in the first place.
— Deepak Chopra
You are a dog in the manger, Cathy, and desire no one to be loved but yourself!
— Emily Bronte
It is strange people should be so greedy when they are alone in the world!
— Emily Bronte
It is so strange people should be so greedy, when they are alone in the world!
— Emily Bronte
The man who dies thus rich dies disgraced.
— Andrew Carnegie
They stopped their ears and refused to listen to their ministers, and they ceased to correct and admonish one another and their children, choosing instead, greed, privacy, independence, and idolatry.
— Peter Marshall
Who touches money touches dirt; and the less religion has to do with it, the better.
— Philip Schaff
It seems like a lot of people seek their peace in things. And most of us are not even satisfied with the things we have... we always want more.
— Joyce Meyer
They have seen in his [Senator Stephen A. Douglas's] round, jolly, fruitful face, post offices, land offices, marshalships, and cabinet appointments, chargeships and foreign missions, bursting and sprouting out in wonderful exuberance ready to be laid hold of by their greedy hands. . . . Nobody has ever expected me to be President. In my poor, lean, lank face nobody has ever seen that any cabbages were sprouting out.
— Abraham Lincoln
A world in the hand is worth two in the bush.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson