The ignorant mind, with its infinite afflictions, passions, and evils, is rooted in the three poisons. Greed, anger, and delusion. – Bodhidharma
Fear and greed are potent motivators. When both of these forces push in the same direction, virtually no human being can resist. – Andrew Weil
We can’t allow any war for imperialism or greed to be fought in our names. This is what we need to keep fighting for. – Cindy Sheehan
We didn’t become the most prosperous country in the world just by rewarding greed and recklessness. We didn’t come this far by letting the special interests run wild. We didn’t do it just by gambling and chasing paper profits on Wall Street. We built this country by making things, by producing goods we could sell. – Barack Obama
Greed is a basic part of animal nature. Being against it is like being against breathing or eating. It means nothing. – Ben Stein
Deregulation created this epidemic of greed which according to the rules of capitalism was OK. Beyond that there was criminal behaviour. There have been no repercussions and it’s hard to make your peace with. – Brad Pitt
I certainly understand that we’re all trying to make a living, but I’m not thinking about that when I’m making it. And if that’s your sole motivation, it’s going to reflect that narcissistic greed, and you’re going to hear it in the music. – Aimee Mann
During periods of extreme fear or greed, you don’t have the proper balance between those two to generate market efficiency and you get extremes in behavior. – Andrew Lo
The everyday kindness of the back roads more than makes up for the acts of greed in the headlines. – Charles Kuralt
The ethos on Wall Street has not changed, and that’s not going to come from the corner office. That’s going to come, for better or worse, from Washington, and the whole idea of greed is still good, that is still pervasive. – Andrew Ross Sorkin
People always ask me for my secret. There isn’t one. You’ve just got to keep a level head and stay away from greed, which is the worst thing that can happen to a successful person. – Dennis Washington
What I loathe is the multi-national conglomerates who must take responsibility for the degradation and pollution of so much of our landscape with their factory farming and greed. – Fay Godwin
The curse of the romantic is a greed for dreams, an intensity of expectation that, in the end, diminishes the reality. – Marya Mannes
What the advertisers are trying to do by eliminating residuals is the most appalling form of greed that I cry thinking about it. – Diane Ladd
Even in a time of elephantine vanity and greed, one never has to look far to see the campfires of gentle people. – Garrison Keillor
Wall Street is broken for sure because it succumbed to greed and corruption and pure speculation with no values. – Deepak Chopra
If you talk to most businessmen, they’ll say that what they do is for the public good, but you know they’re just greedy, and consumers are just consuming for the sake of their own greed. – P. J. O’Rourke
I vote far-left. I am frequently angered by corporate greed and think education ought to be free and teachers paid well. – Eleanor Catton
Take care, and be on your guard against all covetousness, for one’s life does not consist in the abundance of his possessions. – The Bible Luke 12:15
Calm self-confidence is as far from conceit as the desire to earn a decent living is remote from greed. – Channing Pollock
Greed is a sin because humans are social creatures. And they simply cannot survive without the opposite of greed, which is cooperation. – Nick Hanauer
The actions of my government are not bearable. They devastate our natural resources and deprive our people. The politicians speak piously while practicing greed and divisiveness. They care nothing for the nation. I want to do more than withdraw my support. I want to tar and feather them. – Donella Meadows
We all seem to be about aggression and greed. It’s a massive pressure that affects us all. – Eric Cantona
If we weren’t born with anti-social passions – narcissism, envy, lust, meanness, greed, hunger for power, just to name the more obvious – why the need for so many laws, whether religious or secular, that govern behavior? – Dennis Prager
The banking collapse was caused, more than anything, by bad government policy and the total failure of bad regulation, rather than by greed. – Nigel Farage
