You can have it all,Luxury and wealth,A lot of friends and a good health,And own everything on earth.However, if you have greed,Jealousy, bitter and want not to see anyone get ahead in life.A dumping site...

Recently I keep thinking that this isn’t about the survival of a species. It’s about why we’re never satisfied with what we need, why we always take a bit more.

There are three wants which can never be satisfied: that of the rich, who wants something more; that of the sick, who wants something different; and that of the traveler, who says, “Anywhere but here

(aside) Oh, you are well tuned now,But I’ll set down the pegs that make this music,As honest as I am.

It’s like a bunch of hookers advertising their cellulite/ stretch- mark infested bodies to the highest bidder, and then claiming they deserve respect. Crawling on their hands and knees, pupils dilated on the high of...

There are 6 reasons that a person does anything: Love, faith, greed, boredom, fear… revenge.

I cannot calculate nor attempt to manage sacrifice, for to do so is to attempt to sacrifice comfortably. And it is in the attempt to sacrifice comfortably that I begin to realize that the desire...

You were the only one I saw,” she whispered back, making my heart burst.

The gentleman understands what is right, whereas the petty man understands profit.”(Analects 4.16)

he who is greedy is always in want

What the advertisers are trying to do by eliminating residuals is the most appalling form of greed that I cry thinking about it.

If necessity is the mother of invention, then surely greed must be the father. Children of this odd couple are named: Laziness, Envy, Greed, Jr., Gluttony, Lust, Anger and Pride.

It does seem as if the more one gets the more one wants

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.

Take taking from those that give & nobody anywhere will need any more such gifts.

We are all born to love people and use things. Unfortunately, we grow to love things and use people…

That which is physical wears out and returns to mother nature; but the soul we sacrifice in the process of taking from mother nature we cannot get back.

I am chaos eternal. I desire everything this world and the next offers. I am greed, I am hunger. Oh how I hunger… I want the pathetic mortals of this world to bow before me....

Yesterday I got a credit card application from a major bank with a variable rate of 12.99% to 20.99%. Such a deal. And what if I fall on hard times and lose my job? So,...

Gold conjures up a mist about a man, more destructive of all his old senses and lulling to his feelings than the fumes of charcoal.

To make a deliberate falsification for personal gain is the last, worst depth to which either scholar or artist can descend in work or life.(Letter to Muriel St. Clare Byrne, 8 September 1935)

The difference between greed and ambition is a greedy person desires things he isn’t prepared to work for.

if… says: ‘Do not be greedy, be generous’, you may inwardly interpret this in such a manner that you will develop a greed for generosity

The angry men know that this golden age (of fossil fuels) has gone; but they cannot find the words for the constraints they hate. Clutching their copies of Atlas Shrugged, they flail around, accusing those...

I fear we face a new kind of man along with this new kind of affluence. When lands meant wealth, men could perhaps have enough. Too much land was difficult to govern. But with paper...

Why can’t we say ‘When!’ about money the way we say ‘When!’ about coffee?

The happiest people are not the ones with the best or the most things, but those who most appreciate what they have.

These temple destroyers, devotees of ravaging commercialism, seem to have a perfect contempt for Nature, and, instead of lifting their eyes to the God of the mountains, lift them to the Almighty Dollar.

You want Paradise, you gotta build it on war, on blood, on envy and naked greed.

Genuflection before the idol or the dollar destroys the muscles which walk and the will that moves.

There is only one right way to eat a steak – with greed in your heart and a smile on your face.

Socialism is politicized envy.

The greedy bastard, thought Weintî. He knows perfectly well that twenty shekels is the going rate for a female household slave of my age.

Where there is desire, the means to fulfill it are endless.

Loan sharking may mean investment and immediate solutions but desperate loan sharks, who are short of cash, abuse your rights and attack other people’s home. ~ Odyssey of a Heart, Home of a Soul

The town is mobbed out with Saturday shoppers looking for Christmas bargains. You can almost breathe in the raw greed which hangs in the air like vapour. As the late afternoon darkness falls, the lights...

Private Latimer had become a monster, and he must have guessed this was so. Did a girl love him before? Could she continue to?

Those who try to juggle wisdom, power and greed, drop one of the balls, every time.”—Zarost

CREEPOther people have written about war. About how one plane sweeps over and the whole place is ablaze in minutes. About how a young man may kill another young many with perfect legality. I prefer...

God is not glorified when we keep for ourselves (no matter how thankfully) what we ought to be using to alleviate the misery of unevangelized, uneducated, unmedicated, and unfed millions. The evidence that many professing...

believers” because they want God to give them things; a thrill, money, spiritual gifts etc. but they never think twice about what THEY can give to God. They are Christian parasites, always wanting more, rather...

When he thought about how he had been slighted, condescended to, manipulated and deceived, he became angry. Obedience was a monastic virtue, but outside the cloisters it had its drawbacks, he thought bitterly. The world...

Alderic, Knight of the Order of the City and the Assault, hereditary Guardian of the King’s Peace of Mind, a man not unremembered among the makers of myth, pondered so long upon the Gibbelins’ hoard...

Choose altruism, because selfishism is a lonely, cold, dark hole.

Things joined by profit, when pressed by misfortune and danger, will cast each other aside.

They can talk shit about each other behind the others’ backs, but when it comes down to it, money is the one true race and everyone down here is the color of greenbacks and as...

How stand I, then,That have a father killed, a mother stained,Excitements of my reason and my blood,And let all sleep, while to my shame I seeThe imminent death of twenty thousand menThat for a fantasy...

A character began to speculate whether the incessant drive to have things over again might be the root of all evil.

There are six reasons anyone does anything: Love. Faith. Greed. Boredom. Fear…” he said, ticking them off on his fingers; but he lingered on the last, drawing a deep breath before he said, “Revenge.

I would entertain the apparently fading idea that patriotism that serves the self is greed dressed in the garments of liberty and adorned with the fashion accessories of other associated patriotic notions.