quotations about greed
No one can serve two masters. Either you will hate the one and love the other, or you will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money.
JESUS
Matthew 6:24
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
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 bows to me. It is my servant and my lever.
LEIGH BARDUGO
Six of Crows
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
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