Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction.
Capitalism has been called a system of greed – yet it is the system that raised the standard of living of its poorest citizens to heights no collectivist system has ever begun to equal, and no tribal gang can conceive of.
Selfish persons are incapable of loving others, but they are not capable of loving themselves either.
Republicans stand for raw, unbridled evil and greed and ignorance smothered in balloons and ribbons.
Immense wealth, and its lavish expenditure, fill the great house with all that can please the eye, or tempt the taste. Here, appetite, not food, is the great desideratum.
If you ask for too much, you lose even that which you have.
The twin killers of success are impatience and greed.
If I have to build a big company by mistreating other people then the Bible says WOE to me. I don’t know what that is, but I don’t want any of it.
What kind of society isn’t structured on greed?
I want an Oompa-Loompa!? screamed Veruca.
People’s lives are forever controlled by two emotions: fear and greed.
Greed makes man blind and foolish, and makes him an easy prey for death.
We are in danger of destroying ourselves by our greed and stupidity. We cannot remain looking inwards at ourselves on a small and increasingly polluted and overcrowded planet.
The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.
Greed’s worst point is its ingratitude.
How shrunk, how dwindled, in our times Creation’s mighty seed – For Man has broke the Fellowship With murder, lust, and greed.
There is no force more potent in the modern world than stupidity fueled by greed.