quotations about greed
In a society governed passively by free markets and free elections, organized greed always defeats disorganized democracy.
MATT TAIBBI
Griftopia: Bubble Machines, Vampire Squids, and the Long Con That Is Breaking America
Watch out! Be on your guard against all kinds of greed; life does not consist in an abundance of possessions.
JESUS
Luke 12:15
The remoteness of greed from our private life doesn't simply make it easy to condemn, it makes it easy to defend. That's what explains the slogan "greed is good." That phrase was originally supposed to evoke the audience's repugnance when Michael Douglas uttered it in the movie Wall Street, taking it in turn from an actual remark of the financier Ivan Boesky. But the champions of the market system have adopted it as a defiant way of praising untrammeled acquisitiveness as the source of economic growth and all the good things it brings with it.
GEOFFREY NUNBERG
Going Nucular
Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction.
ERICH FROMM
Escape from Freedom
Greed is merely a species of nearsightedness.
HENRY FORD
introduction, My Life and Work
When greed is present in your life, your definition of life becomes twisted. How you define life will determine how you live life.
ANN MARIE ALMAN
The Power of the Cross
The Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's need but not for every man's greed.
MAHATMA GANDHI
attributed, Mahatma Gandhi: The Last Phase
The pronouns "my" and "mine" look innocent enough in print, but their constant and universal use is significant. They express the real nature of the old Adamic man better than a thousand volumes of theology could do. They are verbal symptoms of our deep disease. The roots of our hearts have grown down into things, and we dare not pull up one rootlet lest we die. Things have become necessary to us, a development never originally intended. God's gifts now take the place of God, and the whole course of nature is upset by the monstrous substitution.
A. W. TOZER
The Pursuit of God