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

An intriguing paradox of the 1990s is that it isn't called a decade of greed.
Paul Samuelson

Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power.
P. J. O'Rourke

As time goes on we get closer to that American Dream of there being a pie cut up and shared. Usually greed and selfishness prevent that and there is always one bad apple in every barrel.
Rick Danko

At a time when unbridled greed, malignant aggression, and existence of weapons of mass destruction threatens the survival of humanity, we should seriously consider any avenue that offers some hope.
Stanislav Grof

But at a certain point, and I don't really know... people have asked me this. I don't know exactly what it was that pushed me towards directing, but I think it was a naive notion that if I directed I would be able to play all the roles. A kind of greed.
Peter Bogdanovich

But love, like the sun that it is, sets afire and melts everything. what greed and privilege to build up over whole centuries the indignation of a pious spirit, with its natural following of oppressed souls, will cast down with a single shove.
Jose Marti

But men are so full of greed today, they'll sell anything for a little piece of money.
Little Richard

Calm self-confidence is as far from conceit as the desire to earn a decent living is remote from greed.
Channing Pollock

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

Even in a time of elephantine vanity and greed, one never has to look far to see the campfires of gentle people.
Garrison Keillor

Fear tends to manifest itself much more quickly than greed, so volatile markets tend to be on the downside. In up markets, volatility tends to gradually decline.
Philip Roth

Fifa cannot sit by and see greed rule the football world. Nor shall we.
Sepp Blatter

For greed all nature is too little.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

From the first day to this, sheer greed was the driving spirit of civilization.
Friedrich Engels

Greed and globalization aren't just America's fault.
Arlo Guthrie

Greed has driven the world crazy. And I think I'm lucky that I have a place over here that I can call home.
Nina Simone

Greed has taken the whole universe, and nobody is worried about their soul.
Little Richard

Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction.
Erich Fromm

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