Famous Quotes & Sayings

The owners, as cantankerous as some of them are, and as singled-minded as some of them are and as greedy as some of them are, ultimately have respect for who Tagliabue is and what he has accomplished.

Adrienne Rich

We may feel bitterly how little our poems can do in the face of seemingly out-of-control technological power and seemingly limitless corporate greed, yet it has always been true that poetry can break isolation, show us to ourselves when we are outlawed or made invisible, remind us of beauty where no beauty seems possible, remind us of kinship where all is represented as separation.

Brian Lee

Rising prices are not just greedy people lining their pockets,

Sathya Baba

Peace can only be won the hard way, by eliminating violence and greed from the hearts of individual.

If there was a simple acronym for greed, I'd use that. There's a lot of money at stake.

It's had everything to do with personal greed and how much money they were going to make on the fishery.

Jose Marti

But love, like the sun that it is, sets afire and melts everything. what greed and privilege to build up over whole centuries the indignation of a pious spirit, with its natural following of oppressed souls, will cast down with a single shove.

Jonathan Swift

There is no vice which humankind carries to such wild extremes as that of avarice.

Jake Roberts

A victim of your own greed..wallowing in the muck of avarice.

Jacque Fresco

We found out that you can't pass on acquired things like bigotry, prejudice, greed. That's all learned in your culture or your sub-culture

Mahatma Gandhi

The world is big enough to satisfy everyones needs, but will always be too small to satisfy everyones greed

Mahatma Gandhi

There are sufficient resources on this planet to answer the needs of all, but not enough to satisfy everyone's greed.

Mahatma Gandhi

The saving of labour of the individual should be the object and honest humanitarian considerations, and not greed, the motive.

Louis MacNeice

It's no go the merry-go-round, it's no go the rickshaw All we want is a limousine and a ticket for the peepshow.

Oliver Stone

There is nothing inherently wrong with greed as a human motivator-greed motivating evolution.

Joe Biden

When the stock market crashed, Franklin Roosevelt got on the television and didn't just talk about the princes of greed. He said, 'Look, here's what happened.'

Logan Pearsall Smith

The lusts and greeds of the body scandalize the Soul; but it has to come to heel.

Jonathan Ive

As consumers we are incredibly discerning, we sense where has been great care in the design, and when there is cynicism and greed.

John Denver

If as an environmentalist we are against anything... it is against the arrogance of power and the most obcene ways it shows up, which is in greed.

Mahatma Gandhi

The earth has enough resources for our need, but not for our greed.

Mahatma Gandhi

The earth has everything for all human needs, but nothing for his greed.

Mahatma Gandhi

There is enough for the need of everyone in this world, but not for the greed of everyone.

Fridtjof Nansen

The whole plan of extermination was nothing less than a cold blooded, calculated political measure, having for its object the annihilation of a superior element in the population, which might prove troublesome, and to this must be added the motive of greed.

James Surowiecki

It's a familiar truism that at any one moment, financial markets are dominated by either fear or greed. But the healthiest markets are those that are animated by both fear and greed at the same time.

Henry Spencer

Altruism is a fine motive, but if you want results, greed works much better.

Henry Ford

Greed is merely a species of nearsightedness.

Deb Caletti

I long for books; I am utterly greedy about them.

David Mamet

How can I be secure? Through amassing wealth beyond all measure? No. And what's beyond measure? That's a sickness. That's a trap. There is no measure. Only greed.

Cornel West

We want to bear witness today that we know the relation between corporate greed and what goes on too often in the Supreme Court decisions.

Vandana Shiva

The agrarian crisis [in India] is an unnecessary tragedy, resulting directly from an economics of greed and a politics driven by the economies of greed.

Pearl S. Buck

Purposeless activity may be a phase of death.

Terry Tempest Williams

Greed is a deprivation of abundance, a hoarding, a constriction of energy.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Want is a growing giant whom the coat of have was never large enough to cover.