As a result of this greed for power, the poor is not only silenced but also oppressed.

Greed is an excessive desire for something more than one's proper share.

Ungodliness is confronting the society and everyone seems to be at its mercy because of greed for pleasure.

When greed is enthroned, be it in a community or nation, ungodliness is celebrated at the altar of human pleasure.

At the root of every form of ungodliness, injustice, nepotism, selfishness, every rivalry and competitive jealousy, is the monster called greed.

Individuals with greed for power see others as elements to be oppressed.

Men hate the individual whom they call avaricious only because nothing can be gained from him.

Though statisticians in our time have never kept the score, Man wants a great deal here below and Woman even more.

Greed's worst point is its ingratitude.

For greed all nature is too little.

Nothing destroys one's respect in the hearts of others more than greed.

Riches have made more covetous men than cov-etousness hath made rich men.

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

He is not poor that hath not much, but he that craves much.

Want is a growing giant whom the coat of Have was never large enough to cover.

The avarice of the miser may be termed the grand sepulchre of all his other passions, as they successively decay.

It is not greedy to enjoy a good dinner, any more than it is greedy to enjoy a good concert. But I do think there is something greedy about trying to enjoy the dinner and the concert at the same time.

Greed makes man blind and foolish, and makes him an easy prey for death.

The beauty was in the waking of the powerless. Is it always to be true that it is impossible to have things strong and at the same time beautiful? The famished men need not stay famished. But to gorge themselves in this heartbreaking way consuming, utterly destroying the common promise of their greed, was that ever necessary?

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