192 quotes found
“Pillars are fallen at thy feet Fanes quiver in the air A prostrate city is thy seat And thou alone art there.”
“On what strange stuff Ambition feeds!”
“The greedy man is incontent with a whole world set before him.”
“For greed all nature is too little.”
“Greed's worst point is its ingratitude.”
“There is more in you of good than you know, child of the kindly West. Some courage and some wisdom, blended in measure. If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be ...”
“Most of the mess that is called history comes about because kings and presidents cannot be satisfied with a nice chicken and a good loaf of bread.”
“Money is like a child—rarely unaccompanied. When it disappears, look to those who were supposed to be keeping an eye on it while you were at the grocery store. You might also look for someone who h...”
“-Money? in a voice that rustled.”
“Saying of the ProphetDesireDesire not the world, and God will love you. Desire not what others have, and they will love you.”
“Poor greedy one, wherever he runs He's after food, and death is after him.(Saadi)”
“We always want what is not ours. It’s intriguing. We think if we can just get that, we’ll finally be happy. The lure of what we do not have is deceptive.True freedom, however, is found in being con...”
“What’s interesting is that most free-marketers don’t seem to want a free market at all, but a status quo market. The market in the United States is anything but free. If it were, big business would...”
“Wealth is neither an ends nor a means, it is a symptom.”
“It’s time to step back and reexamine our hatred and let wrath subside. Are we striking out against the real problems: ignorance, fear, want, greed, and political disenfranchisement or just trying t...”
“It is strange people should be so greedy when they are alone in the world!”
“The Utopians wonder how any man should be so much taken with the glaring doubtful lustre of a jewel or a stone, that can look up to a star or to the sun himself; or how any should value himself bec...”
“Pride is an expensive vice, for it is wedded to Greed whose hunger is never sated”
“Why can a Grisha possess but one amplifier? I will answer this question instead: What is infinite? The universe and the greed of men.”
“… human needs are finite, but human greed is not …”
