Lust and greed are more gullible than innocence.

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.

There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it.

The lack of money is the root of all evil.

New York City is a great monument to the power of money and greed… a race for rent.

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

Selfish persons are incapable of loving others, but they are not capable of loving themselves either.

We shall have to practise to lead our life on the basis of our needs, not under the influence of our greed.

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

You have succeeded in life when all you really WANT is only what you really NEED.

Greed is the inventor of injustice as well as the current enforcer.

Our labor preserves us from three great evils — weariness, vice, and want.

A healthy desire for wealth is not greed. It’s a desire for life.

Ignorance, hatred and greed are killing nature.

Greed is the lack of confidence of one’s own ability to create.

Callous greed grows pious very fast.