quotations about greed
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
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
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
Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction.
ERICH FROMM
Escape from Freedom
Watch out! Be on your guard against all kinds of greed; life does not consist in an abundance of possessions.
JESUS
Luke 12:15
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
Greed is merely a species of nearsightedness.
HENRY FORD
introduction, My Life and Work
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