quotations about greed
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
Greed bows to me. It is my servant and my lever.
LEIGH BARDUGO
Six of Crows
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 they refused their next salary increase. I don't see even the most Left-Wing scholar in this country scornfully burning his salary check. In other words, "greed" simply means that you are trying to relieve the nature-given scarcity that man was born with. Greed will continue until the Garden of Eden arrives, when everything is superabundant, and we don't have to worry about economics at all.
MURRAY N. ROTHBARD
Economic Controversies
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
He who wishes to grow rich in a day will be hanged in a year.
LEONARDO DA VINCI
Thoughts on Art and Life
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
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
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