“If we go on the way we have, the fault is our greed — if we are not willing — we will disappear from the face of the globe, to be replaced by the insect.”— Jacques Cousteau, en.wikiquote.org
“I think the doctors would especially like to keep one in bed. The love of money, is the root of all evil.”— Mary Todd Lincoln, amazon.com
“But I do know we're deficient in some way. We are too involved in materialistic things, and they don't satisfy us. The loving relationships we have, the universe around us, we take these things for granted.”— Mitch Albom, amazon.com
“Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction.”— Erich Fromm, amazon.com
“It doesn’t matter what we want. Once we get it, we want something else.”— Bryan Cogman, Petyr Baelish, Aidan Gillen, imdb.com
“Where do you draw the line, between love and greed? We never did know, we always wanted more. We want to take it all in, for one last time, we want to eat the world with our eyes. Better than the mouth, my darling. Better than the mouth.”— Margaret Atwood, amazon.com
“It has always seemed strange to me…The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of…”— John Steinback, amazon.com
“If it weren't for greed, intolerance, hate, passion and murder, you would have no works of art, no great buildings, no medical science, no Mozart, no Van Gough, no Muppets and no Louis Armstrong.”— Jasper Fforde, amazon.com
“Allah does not bless usury, and He causes charitable deeds to prosper, and Allah does not love any ungrateful sinner.”— 02:276 (Surah al-Baqarah), amazon.com
“We not only wish to be pleased, but to be pleased in that particular way in which we have been accustomed to be pleased.”— William Wordsworth, amazon.com
“Dad, don't do anything stupid! You haven't updated your will yet.”— Leslie Ray, David Steven Simon, Carlton Banks, Alfonso Ribeiro, amazon.com
“Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed.”— Mahatma Gandhi, amazon.com
“We are in danger of destroying ourselves by our greed and stupidity. We cannot remain looking inwards at ourselves on a small and increasingly polluted and overcrowded planet.”— Stephen Hawking, books.google.com
“Millions of dollars later, and neither of them were happy. Money is wasted on the rich.”— Gillian Flynn, amazon.com
“It has always seemed strange to me... The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits…”— John Steinbeck, amazon.com
“If you were wise enough to know that this life would consist mostly of letting go of things you wanted, then why not get good at the letting go, rather than the trying to have?”— Miranda July, amazon.com