quotations about greed
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
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
Greed is merely a species of nearsightedness.
HENRY FORD
introduction, My Life and Work
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
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
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
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