Riots born out of political issues aren't the same as those born out of personal greed.

Peace is a virtual, mute, sustained victory of potential powers against probable greeds

At the end of the day, anybody who thinks there's a reward for nothing, ends up losing.

I don't like greed, I don't like ignorance. I really don't like anger. But I love love.

Time! Joyless emblem of the greed of millions, robber of the best which earth can give.

Wars and revolutions and battles are due simply and solely to the body and its desires.

Nature can provide for the needs of people; [she] can't provide for the greed of people.

Power, greed, and perhaps more than anything, ego, are powerful emotions and motivators.

If there was a university degree for greed, you cunts would all get first-class honours.

I was Amazement--I was Desire--I was Ecstasy and Rapture and the slightest bit of Greed.

The man who pets a lion may tame it, but the man who coddles the body makes it ravenous.

We have to knock down the barriers erected by greed, special interests, powerful forces.

Privacy is not for sale, and human rights should not be compromised out of fear or greed.

The covetous man pines in plenty, like Tantalus up to the chin in water, and yet thirsty.

I think there's just too much greed in the world today [and] that's why we have problems.

Spinning yarns is a protection against the nuttiness... the greed, the hate all around us.

There is enough for the need of everyone in this world, but not for the greed of everyone.

We all seem to be about aggression and greed. It's a massive pressure that affects us all.

Man is oftentimes weak-minded enough to be caught in the snare of greed and honeyed words.

It's not competition and greed that makes the world go around, it's cooperating and caring

The must have it now mentality, was man's first step into the gorging of his natural home.

The reason why we have to acquire wealth is the body, because we are slaves in its service.

We're all basically made of the same stuff: generosity and selfishness, goodness and greed.

If I give $1,000 dollars I deserve to get back $100,000 because I am just, that's not greed!

Animals are neither gods nor fiends, but men in their way without the lust and greed of man.

Foolish people are never harmless. Stupidity accounts for as many crimes as anger and greed.

Human beings are very complex creatures. This desire, this greed, this love is very complex.

The enjoyment of power inevitably corrupts the judgment of reason, and perverts its liberty.

The evil in our desires typically does not lie in what we want, but that we want it too much.

One of the key problems of the business world is that greed has become culturally acceptable.

We've been raised to compete, to want more! More! More! It's a way of life. It's about greed.

Become more watchful and anger will be less and greed will be less and jealousy will be less.

All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.

You have to remove your human sentiment when it comes to greed and the accumulation of wealth.

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

We forget the nature of true power. The power within is abundance. The power without is greed.

When you cast away all your greed and fixation in adversity, you can find unexpected strength.

...people of old deemed freedom from greed precious, and this is how they got beyond the world.

What we're seeing now is that greed is still alive and kicking, and banks are bigger than ever.

What in the rising man was industry and economy, becomes in the rich man parsimony and avarice.

The role of government is to create responsible greed to keep boundaries around what people do.

Do not follow vain desires; for verily he who prospers is preserved from lust, greed and anger.

People who are greedy have extraordinary capacities for waste-they must, they take in too much.

If we do not cling to riches, selfishness or greed - then I believe we are getting closer to God.

You're not a road comic till you've watched Real Sex and American Greed alone in your hotel room.

For total greed, rapacity, heartlessness, and irresponsibility there is nothing to match a nation.

The everyday kindness of the back roads more than makes up for the acts of greed in the headlines.

Corporately contrived art product replaces inspired intellectual property with ineffectual poperty.

We must learn to separate need from greed...We must not allow our yearnings to exceed our earnings.

It's sundown on the union And what's made in the USA Sure was a good idea 'Til greed got in the way.

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