I thought of sharing some very interesting quotes by famous people or/ in popular books . The point to be noticed here is the peculiar way how greed has a negative impact on people.
1.For greed all nature is too little. - Seneca
2.Greed has taken the whole universe, and nobody is worried about their soul. - Little Richard
3.Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction. - Erich Fromm, Escape From Freedom
4.Greed is the inventor of injustice as well as the current enforcer. - Julian Casablancas
5.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. - Rabindranath Tagore
6.The covetous man is always in want. - Horace
7.Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, "What's in it for me?" - Brian Tracy
8.There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it. - Maya Angelou
9.There is no fire like passion, there is no shark like hatred, there is no snare like folly, there is no torrent like greed. - Siddhartha Gautama
10.In his love for the world, the greedy is like the silkworm: the more it wraps in its cocoon, the less it has of escaping from it, until it dies of grief. - Imam Muhammad al-Baqir
11.It didn´t occur to me until later that there´s another truth, very simple: greed in a good cause is still greed. - Stephen King, Wolves of the Calla
12.This avarice Strikes deeper, grows with more pernicious root.
- William Shakespeare, Macbeth
13.One of the weaknesses of our age is our apparent inability to distinguish our needs from our greeds. - Don Robinson
14. Greed's worst point is its ingratitude. - Seneca
15.There are three gates to self-destructive hell: lust, anger, and greed. - Bhagavad Gita16:21
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