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The writer's greed is appalling. He wants, or seems to want, everything and practically everybody, in another sense, and at the same time, he needs no one at all. (Quote by - James Baldwin)

Pillars are fallen at thy feet Fanes quiver in the air A prostrate city is thy seat And thou alone art there. (Quote by - Lydia M. Child)

The point is that you can't be too greedy. (Quote by - Donald Trump)

He who is greedy is always in want. (Quote by - Horace)

Hell has three gates: lust, anger, and greed (Quote by - Bhagavad Gita)

You can stand tall without standing on someone. You can be a victor without having victims. (Quote by - Harriet Woods)

All human suffering springs from unbridled desire. Unless one extricates oneself from the clutch of greed, one will not free himself from the fetters of sorrow. (Quote by - Vellupillai Pirapakaran)

It is greed to do all the talking but not to want to listen at all (Quote by - Democritus)

Oh, the jealousy, the greed is the unraveling. It's the unraveling and it undoes all the joy that could be. (Quote by - Joni Mitchell)

Greed lessens what is gathered. (Quote by - Arab proverb)

To greed, all nature is insufficient. (Quote by - Seneca)

A greedy person and a pauper are practically one and the same. (Quote by - Swiss Proverb)

Rulers do not reduce taxes to be kind. Expediency and greed create high taxation, and normally it takes an impending catastrophe to bring it down. (Quote by - Charles Adams)

Curst greed of gold, what crimes thy tyrant power has caused (Quote by - Virgil)

The greedy man is incontent with a whole world set before him. (Quote by - Sa'di)

There is enough in the world for everyone's need, but not enough for everyone's greed. (Quote by - Frank Buchman)

Urst greed of gold, what crimes thy tyrant power has caused (Quote by - Virgil)

We risk all in being too greedy. (Quote by - Jean de la Fontaine)

The lusts and greeds of the body scandalize the Soul; but it has to come to heel. (Quote by - Logan Pearsall Smith)

Greed, like the love of comfort, is a kind of fear. (Quote by - Cyril Connolly)

What kind of society isn't structured on greed? The problem of social organization is how to set up an arrangement under which greed will do the least harm; capitalism is that kind of a system. (Quote by - Milton Friedman)

It's time for greatness -- not for greed. It's a time for idealism -- not ideology. It is a time not just for compassionate words, but compassionate action. (Quote by - Marian Wright Edelman)

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 out of them, molding them into money. (Quote by - Rabindranath Tagore)

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