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The best parenting strives to educate children in how to live
enthusiastically, compassionately, without greed, striving for a better world. — David R. Wommack

So while our art cannot, as we wish it could, save us from wars, privation, envy, greed, old age, or death, it can revitalize us amidst it all. — Ray Bradbury

The poor people are stupid from poverty, and the rich from greed. — Maxim Gorky

As the nation at last confronts global warming, it is no time for denial, greed, cynicism or pessimism. — Bernie Sanders

As long as there is greed (desire) for even a single situation, one will have to come back into the world and wandering will continue until then. — Dada Bhagwan

Money certainly brings out the best in you, doesn't it? — Mark Hanna

Some wear greed as a fine suit of clothes. But you, my son, bear its stamp ever more poorly. — Patrick DeWitt

People of old deemed freedom from greed precious, and this is how they got beyond the world. — Zicheng Hong

Day and night - ruthlessly apply key lessons of mankind such as leaving greed, fear and lust to improve the efficiency & effectiveness of life. — V.V. Rao

Abundance is rooted in community, not individualism. Abundance is what is before our eyes, but we cannot see when we are blinded by greed. — Terry Tempest Williams

The things we love the most are the most disfiguring. Such is our greed for them. — Nathan Hill

Fascinated by the glitter of gain, man gazes at the Medusa-like face of greed and stands petrified. — Manly P. Hall

Greed is at the bottom of most of the wrong-doing with which government has to deal. — William Jennings Bryan

Life is easy, life is delightful. It's only hard on your illusions, your ambitions, your greed, your cravings. — Anthony De Mello

Greed is a fat demon with a small mouth and whatever you feed it is never enough. — Janwillem Van De Wetering

I don't hate religion, I try not to hate religion. I hate the terrible things that religion makes people do, and I hate the greed that comes from it. — Hutch Harris

I'm a joker who has understood his epoch and has extracted all he possibly could from the stupidity, greed and vanity of his contemporaries. — Pablo Picasso

We forget the nature of true power. The power within is abundance. The power without is greed. — Terry Tempest Williams

The Master said, "The gentleman does not serve as a vessel."
(Analects 2.12) — Confucius

The role of government is to create responsible greed to keep boundaries around what people do. — Rebecca M. Blank

Avarice is rarely the vice of youth ... — Sophia Lee

Love is responsible for nearly every kind of insanity in the world though greed, vanity, and pure meanness contribute their portion to general misery. — P.N. Elrod

There are men who dig for gold; [Monseigneur Bienvenu] dug for compassion. — Victor Hugo

Who has fear? The one who has greed has fear. — Dada Bhagwan

We need to learn how to separate need from greed. — Thomas S. Monson

There was a time when our greed had not yet surpassed our imaginations as our greatest asset. — Thomas Warfield

The boy caught an almost imperceptible movement, the insatiable greed of maggots crawling inside human flesh. — Elif Shafak

Human beings are very complex creatures. This desire, this greed, this love is very complex. — Yash Chopra

I vote far-left. I am frequently angered by corporate greed and think education ought to be free and teachers paid well. — Eleanor Catton

Greed, the desire to incorporate, is magnified and fed back to produce the pretan realms, just as hate creates the hells. — Robert Thurman

Mr. Right' is usually two or eight men. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Large corporations, of course, are blinded by greed. The laws under which they operate require it - their shareholders would revolt at anything less. — Aaron Swartz

All too often those who extol most loudly the virtues of selflessness turn out to be motivated by greed and ambition. — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

I think there's just too much greed in the world today [and] that's why we have problems. — Robert Kiyosaki

The earth provides enough to satisfy every person's need, but not every person's greed. — Mahatma Gandhi

Question: What do you get the man who has everything? Answer: a concious. That guy is so greedy. — Demitri Martin

There is a collision course between the greed and rationalizations of the West and the force of nature; science and the planet are the casualties. — Eric Mann

Purity means lack of hatred, jealousy, fear, greed and lust - the absence of anything that can stain consciousness. — Frederick Lenz

The human heart is greedy; it will use religion, color, or any other excuse to justify its greed. Blame the human heart. — Bono

The market is a very emotional place that appeals to fear and greed. — Walter Schloss

Always somewhere there is fire or smoke, insistent reminders of the greed consuming the world — Sy Montgomery

prophet. Trying to protect me from this life of greed. How — James Patterson

As we grow up, we are exposed to hate and greed and anger and jealousy and peanut brittle and all kinds of things, our subtly body erodes. — Frederick Lenz

All that meets me, all that floods over me are but feelings - greed of life, love of home, yearning for the blood, intoxication of deliverance. — Erich Maria Remarque

Things joined by profit, when pressed by misfortune and danger, will cast each other aside. — Zhuangzi

Because thankfulness is the tonic that always cures the cancers of greed, envy and jealously, it should be taken in liberal doses daily. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

Understanding spirituality means that every day anger, pride, deceit and greed continue to decrease, will not increase. — Dada Bhagwan

I could not possibly count the gold-digging ruses of women, Not if I had ten mouths, not if I had ten tongues. — Ovid

The world has enough for everyone's need, but not enough for everyone's greed. - GANDHI T — Matthieu Ricard

Whoever that came up with the idea of people having to have 'a dream' sure knew how to keep these creatures called human beings preoccupied. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

My greed for agonies has made me die so many times that it strikes me as indecent to keep on abusing a corpse from which I can get nothing more. — Emil M. Cioran

It's all about greed and money and it's the driving force in Hollywood. — Robert Redford

When a man becomes old, his greed becomes young: sleep grows heavy at the time of morning. — Saib Tabrizi

He was seized and dragged off to King Philip, and being asked who he was, replied, A spy upon your insatiable greed . — Diogenes

If men could fit stars in their pockets, the sky would be empty. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Greed is a basic part of animal nature. Being against it is like being against breathing or eating. It means nothing. — Ben Stein

The avarice person is ever in want; let your desired aim have a fixed limit. — Horace

Democracy, frequently defined as Individual greed, moderated by an efficient but not too zealous government. — Arthur C. Clarke

Koch's youthful idealism about libertarianism had largely devolved into a rationale for corporate self-interest. — John Charles Chasteen

I read with the pure, exhilarating greed of readers sixteen, seventeen years old; — Annie Dillard

No thank you to all the bustas, cowards, and FAKE HOMIES who showed me the depths of jealousy, envy and greed. — Tupac Shakur

Hoarding kings are to be pitied in their lifetime
when they can't take their riches
to the grave.

- Gwallawg is Other — Taliesin

It was not curiosity that killed the goose who laid the golden egg, but an insatiable greed that devoured common sense. — E.A. Bucchianeri

What can defeat greed, technological superiority, and legal lawlessness ... is discipline, consciousness, and unity. — Toni Cade Bambara

Corporate greed is killing America, and that's what we battling at Boeing. — Bill Johnson

Dragon kind was no less cruel than mankind. The Dragon, at least, acted from bestial need rather than bestial greed."
~ A thought by Lessa ~ — Anne McCaffrey

Fraud is the daughter of greed. — Jonathan Gash

If I give $1,000 dollars I deserve to get back $100,000 because I am just, that's not greed! — Jesse Duplantis

Nothing, not love, not greed, not passion or hatred, is stronger than a writer's need to change another writer's copy. — Arthur Evans

Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell. — Edward Abbey

Life without money seems to be incomplete,but money without life is absolutely useless — ABC

The top two ways to destroy success are greed and impatience — Phil Harding

I was Amazement
I was Desire
I was Ecstasy and Rapture and the slightest bit of Greed. — Sharon Shinn

Greed, in the end, fails even the greedy. — Cathryn Louis

God is in heaven, and we all want what's his. But power and greed and corruptible seed seem to be all that there is. — Bob Dylan

A covetous man's penny is a stone. — Bill Vaughan

Fear, greed and hope have destroyed more portfolio value than any recession or depression we have ever been through. — James O'Shaughnessy

Remember, the goal is to take emotion out of investing because emotion is what so often destroys investing success, whether it's greed or fear. — Anthony Robbins

The greed to be loved is a fearful thing. Some of those who say that they live only for love come to live in incessant resentment. — C.S. Lewis

A system is corrupt when it is strictly profit-driven, not driven to serve the best interests of its people, but those of multinational corporations. — Suzy Kassem

Greed says there is never enough. Abundance says there is more than enough. Greed closes the door behind itself. Abundance opens the door for others. — Terry Tempest Williams

Riots born out of political issues aren't the same as those born out of personal greed. — Ross Kemp

Lust and greed are more gullible than innocence. — Mason Cooley

When everyone covets something, they are easily annoyed by it. — Baltasar Gracian

Send me the half that's got my keys. — Harry Graham

There are two things men have never been able to satisfy: their curiosity and their greed. — George Lucas

There is no wealth but life. — John Ruskin

I'm fat because I'm greedy, and if my mind is fat it's because I'm curious. — Stephen Fry

There is no force more potent in the modern world than stupidity fueled by greed. — Edward Abbey

Greed is the fast-track to poverty. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

I think greed is a critical problem - the gap between the poor and the rich. The gap between the top 10 percent and the bottom 10 percent. — Richard Rogers

Two down, a million more to go." She wiped the green blood off her face with the hem of her shirt and glanced around. — A.O. Peart

Mr. Greed, why do you have to own everything that you see? — John Fogerty

I want an Oompa-Loompa!' screamed Veruca. — Roald Dahl

The covetous man pines in plenty, like Tantalus up to the chin in water, and yet thirsty. — Thomas Adams

Greed is really the religion of vulgarity. — Massimo Vignelli

In these times gain is not only a matter of greed, but of ambition. — Joseph Joubert

Fear, greed, and ego are very expensive monkeys to have on your back while trading. — Steve Burns

There are 6 reasons that a person does anything: Love, faith, greed, boredom, fear ... revenge. — Ally Carter

Politicians never accuse you of 'greed' for wanting other people's money - only for wanting to keep your own money. — Joseph Sobran