Quotes On and About Greed

These inspirational quotes on and about greed explain some of the underlying issues that have faced human beings for centuries. Why does greed seem to be predominant in the human experience? Is it because of the failings of child rearing or the nature of society to seek prominence. "Greed is evidence only because of the void in human spirit."

The ideals which have lighted me on my way and time after time given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Truth, Goodness, and Beauty. The ordinary objects of human endeavour - property, outward success, luxury - have always seemed to me contemptible.
Albert Einstein

To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.
Bertrand Russell

Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's need, but not every man's greed .
Mahatma Gandhi

The greed of gain has no time or limit to its capaciousness. Its one object is to produce and consume. It has pity neither for beautiful nature nor for living human beings. It is ruthlessly ready without a moment's hesitation to crush beauty and life out of them, molding them into money.
Rabindranath Tagore

All human suffering springs from unbridled desire. Unless one extricates oneself from the clutch of greed, one will not free himself from the fetters of sorrow.
Vellupillai Pirapakaran

What does labor want? We want more schoolhouses and less jails; more books and less arsenals; more learning and less vice; more leisure and less greed; more justice and less revenge; in fact, more of the opportunities to cultivate our better natures, to make manhood more noble, womanhood more beautiful, and childhood more happy and bright.
Samual Gompers

Oh, the jealousy, the greed is the unraveling. It's the unraveling and it undoes all the joy that could be.
Joni Mitchell

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