Top Greed Quotes
The basis of tragedy is man's helplessness against disease, war and death; the basis of comedy is man's helplessness against vanity (the vanity of love, greed, lust, power).
Dawn Powell
There is a sufficiency in the world for man's need but not for man's greed.
Mohandas Gandhi
Greed, like the love of comfort, is a kind of fear.
Cyril Connolly
I didn't do it because of the underlying greed that's prevailing, but it is about greed, doing the right thing at the right time using your clout when you have it and what for and what reason.
Danny DeVito
Fifa cannot sit by and see greed rule the football world. Nor shall we.
Sepp Blatter
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Greed probably figures in my intellectual life as well, as I attempt to absorb a massive amount of information with consequent mental indigestion.
Etty Hillesum 
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In our daily life, we encounter people who are angry, deceitful, intent only on satisfying their own needs. There is so much anger, distrust, greed, and pettiness that we are losing our capacity to work well together.
Margaret J. Wheatley
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New York City is a great monument to the power of money and greed... a race for rent.
Frank Lloyd Wright
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Greed is the inventor of injustice as well as the current enforcer.
Julian Casablancas
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There are a lot of people who are doing wonderful things, quietly, with no motive of greed, or hostility toward other people, or delusions of superiority.
Charles Kuralt
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Rulers do not reduce taxes to be kind. Expediency and greed create high taxation, and normally it takes an impending catastrophe to bring it down.
Charles Adams
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From the first day to this, sheer greed was the driving spirit of civilization.
Friedrich Engels
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As time goes on we get closer to that American Dream of there being a pie cut up and shared. Usually greed and selfishness prevent that and there is always one bad apple in every barrel.
Rick Danko
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Do not follow vain desires; for verily he who prospers is preserved from lust, greed and anger.
Abu Bakr
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