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There is enough in the world for everyone's need, but not enough for everyone's greed.

A greedy person and a pauper are practically one and the same.

Greed is all right, by the way I think greed is healthy. You can be greedy and still feel good about yourself.

Give him an inch and he'll take a yard.

To greed, all nature is insufficient.

You show me a capitalist, and I'll show you a bloodsucker.

The point is that you can't be too greedy.

This war has been motivated by pride or arrogance, by a desire to control oil wealth, by a desire to implant our programs. on the Diane Rehm Show.

The most pitiful human ailment is a birdseed heart.

Worse than traitors in arms are the men who pretend loyalty to the flag, feast and fatten on the misfortunes of the Nation while patriotic blood is crimsoning the plains of the South and their countrymen moldering the dust.

The covetous man pines in plenty, like Tantalus up to the chin in water, and yet thirsty.

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.

There is no fire like passion, there is no shark like hatred, there is no snare like folly, there is no torrent like greed.