GREED QUOTES III

quotations about greed

When greed is present in your life, your definition of life becomes twisted. How you define life will determine how you live life.

ANN MARIE ALMAN

The Power of the Cross


Greed is easy to hide--from ourselves. But the people around us know. Because although it maybe difficult to spot greed in the mirror, it isn't difficult at all to see in the people around us.

ANDY STANLEY

Enemies of the Heart


Watch out! Be on your guard against all kinds of greed; life does not consist in an abundance of possessions.

JESUS

Luke 12:15

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To justify and extol human greed and egotism is to my mind not only immoral, but evil. For one thing, it is gratuitous to advise any human being to look out for himself. You can be sure that he will. It is far more diflicult to persuade him to help his neighbor to build a dam or to defend a town or to give food he has accumulated to the victims of a famine. But since we must live together, dependent upon one another for many things and services, altruism is necessary to survival.

GORE VIDAL

Esquire, 1961

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

MATT TAIBBI

Griftopia: Bubble Machines, Vampire Squids, and the Long Con That Is Breaking America


The Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's need but not for every man's greed.

MAHATMA GANDHI

attributed, Mahatma Gandhi: The Last Phase


The pronouns "my" and "mine" look innocent enough in print, but their constant and universal use is significant. They express the real nature of the old Adamic man better than a thousand volumes of theology could do. They are verbal symptoms of our deep disease. The roots of our hearts have grown down into things, and we dare not pull up one rootlet lest we die. Things have become necessary to us, a development never originally intended. God's gifts now take the place of God, and the whole course of nature is upset by the monstrous substitution.

A. W. TOZER

The Pursuit of God


It is greed that appears before any of the other great heralds to see if there is something in you to exploit.

D. E. PHOENIX

Revelations of the Fallen: The Blasphemy of Astrial Belthromoto