Then the liars and swearers are fools, for there are liars and swearers enough to beat the honest men and hang up them.

That something so small could be so beautiful. Worth so much. Only the strongest people can turn away from feelings like that.

The amount of gold someone has is never the issue, but rather the love of it and the want of more for personal gain that consumes the hearts of many good people.

I don’t wanna take my time going to work, I got a motorcycle and a sleeping bag and ten or fifteen girls. What the hell I wanna go off and go to work for? Work...

And what, O Queen, are those things that are dear to a man? Are they not bubbles? Is not ambition but an endless ladder by which no height is ever climbed till the last unreachable...

No one would argue that we owe a debt of gratitude to the Goliath Corporation. They helped us to rebuild after the Second War and it should not be forgotten. Of late, however, it seems...

I will not serve God like a labourer, in expectation of my wages. Rabia

The events of the Titanic disaster can be seen as a symbol of what happens through overconfidence in technology, complacence, and a mindset of profits over people’s safety.

Ayn Rand’s ‘philosophy’ is nearly perfect in its immorality, which makes the size of her audience all the more ominous and symptomatic as we enter a curious new phase in our society…. To justify and...

Avarice is opposed to nobility.It believes that by robbing many of all they have, that it (greed) is cloaked in the nobility that is the birthmark of the people.

There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it.

Extreme emotions could be lethal. If I can’t have you nobody will, and so forth. Death could set in.

To do what you imply would require nothing short of divine intervention. you must change man, not systems. Can you and our vapouring friends of the Literary Chamber of Rennes, or any other learned society...

But if you were any different you wouldn’t be human.

Love that wants only to get, to possess, is a monstrous thing

Those that much covet are with gain so fond,For what they have not, that which they possessThey scatter and unloose it from their bond,And so, by hoping more, they have but less;Or, gaining more, the...

Pah…commoners, traders.” Ergus made a disparaging gesture.Traders with money, Ergus. Money they put at the disposition of young Tanahkos,” Lmachdan said in a dry tone. “Money that turns into soldiers. Soldiers who are used to...

Whenever success and fame override our senses with greed, arrogance and delusion; it is a time to pause and reflect.

To be blessed and yet permit gluttony to blind me to the blessings is to banish myself to a life of unrelenting poverty even though I might be utterly engulfed in the embrace of a...

Oral Roberts is a greed-crazed white-trash lunatic who should have been hung upside down from a telephone pole on the outskirts of Tulsa 44 years ago, before he somehow transmogrified into the money-sucking animal that...

If your conduct is determined solely by considerations of profit you will arouse great resentment.

The cycle of optimism and euphoria leading to greed, fear and capitulation, giving way to hope and building back to optimism, drives the expansion and contraction of our financial world in a market cycle of...

The world says: “You have needs — satisfy them. You have as much right as the rich and the mighty. Don’t hesitate to satisfy your needs; indeed, expand your needs and demand more.” This is...

Need’ now means wanting someone else’s money. ‘Greed’ means wanting to keep your own. ‘Compassion’ is when a politician arranges the transfer.

Greed:Your own lies make you sick.

If you are not selfish and greedy, you picked up riches along the street.

In the immediate nearness of the gold, all else had been forgotten […], and I could not doubt that he hoped to seize upon the treasure, find and board the Hispanola under cover of night,...

The world is on fire with hate- everyone is blaming one another saying that religion is responsible for it!In all honesty, hate has no fate. But greed does it needs money, its faith.

When all the trees have been cut down and all the animals have been hunted to extinction, when all the waters are polluted and the air is unsafe to breathe, only then will you discover...

Diamonds and pearls are earth’s treasures, love is the greatest treasure of life in the physical and life in Spirit.

Or can it be thought that they who heap up an useless mass of wealth, not for any use that it is to bring them, but merely to please themselves with the contemplation of it,...

Some people take what they need from the orchard, and other people pick the orchard clean.”From – “The Mind Game Company – The Players

Much wants more and loses all.

The God I believe in isn’t short on cash, mister.

Nothing is sufficient for the person who finds sufficiency too little

, one should ask oneself when was the last time one heard of a billionaire buying an army of tanks and a set of nuclear weapons.

In an effort to eliminate the possibility of any rival growing up, some monopolists would sacrifice democracy itself.

New York City is a great monument to the power of money and greed… a race for rent.

In a society governed passively by free markets and free elections, organized greed always defeats disorganized democracy.

It’s true: greed has had a very bad press. I frankly don’t see anything wrong with greed. I think that the people who are always attacking greed would be more consistent with their position if...

There,” she said, waving her hands at the corridor. The expression of delight on her face was a very bad thing to see.”You’re wrong! You don’t know where your parents are, do you?” she turned...

Your actions are catalysts to another’s actions. One could last a second, another could last to the end of mankind. Share kindness, plant the seed, help humanity overcome their greed.

There was somewhere, if you knew where to find it, some place where money could be made like drawing water from a well, some Big Rock Candy Mountain where life was effortless and rich and...

My Oneness will stop the machine that overtakes people’s minds. Do we really need new clothes, or new cars, or new TVs? Should we really ingest food made from chemicals not of this earth? Should...

There is thy gold, worse poison to men’s souls,Doing more murder in this loathsome world,Than these poor compounds that thou mayst not sell.

Don’t rush your legs to feed your greed. They will rush to judge you as the greedy one.

Life’s stress is less on getting less by craving more, but more by feeling less on getting more.

Beware of destructive individuals whose spirits breathe every day the worst toxic oxygen of the soul, “SALIGIA” Superbia, Avaritia, Luxuria, Invidia, Gula, Ira, Acedia.No matter how much goodness, patience, understanding, assistance, forgiveness and letting go...

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...

Wouldn’t it be nice, for once, to find a world which was at peace with itself. No matter how always those few wanted more than others. Those not satisfied with running their own lives but...