All hardships in life arise from greed and desire.

Giving opens the way for receiving.

Greed is normally balanced by fear.

When greed, selfishness, and personal pleasure supersede, any society is subject to collapse.

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

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

If your desires be endless, your cares and fears will be so too.

Greed has the ability to blind a person, making wrong seem right, and vice versa.

I believe greed is actually measured by what it costs you, not by what you have.

Greed is the pursuit of money, wealth and power at the expense of others.

Money is not the root of all evil, greed is.

Fear, greed and hope have destroyed more portfolio value than any recession or depression we have ever been through.

Happy the man who has learned the cause of things and has put under his feet all fear, inexorable fate, and the noisy strife of the hell of greed.

Greed alters our sense of priorities.

Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing.

Fear and greed are potent motivators. When both of these forces push in the same direction, virtually no human being can resist.

We live in a system that espouses merit, equality, and a level playing field, but exalts those with wealth, power, and celebrity, however gained.

The hypocrisy of some is that we like to think of ourselves as sophisticated and evolved, but we’re still also driven by primal urges like greed and power.

It didn’t occur to me until later that there´s another truth, very simple: greed in a good cause is still greed.