Leadership is a privilege to better the lives of others. It is not an opportunity to satisfy personal greed.

The constitution is the ultimate custodian of social will and its making should be accorded all due diligence.

May hard work, and justice, always cement our bonds of unity that we may get our country back to production.

Leadership is a privilege to better the lives of others. It is not an opportunity to satisfy personal greed.

Let us reject violence and selfishness which could destroy our country's unity.

What I loathe is the multi-national conglomerates who must take responsibility for the degradation and pollution of so much of our landscape with their factory farming and greed.

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

We have seen that in this country in the last few years, particularly on Wall Street, with the rise of the old human frailty of greed. This occurs when people begin to serve only their own needs to the detriment of everyone else.

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

It has always seemed strange to me... the things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second.

The everyday kindness of the back roads more than makes up for the acts of greed in the headlines.

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

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

What I would like to be remembered for is that Walter Washington changed the spirit of the people of this city, that he came in as mayor when there was hate and greed and misunderstanding among our people and the races were polarized.

Greed, like the love of comfort, is a kind of fear.

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

John will never send a boy or girl in a uniform anywhere in the world because of our need and greed for oil.

I certainly understand that we're all trying to make a living, but I'm not thinking about that when I'm making it. And if that's your sole motivation, it's going to reflect that narcissistic greed, and you're going to hear it in the music.

For greed all nature is too little.

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

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

I think war is based in greed and there are huge karmic retributions that will follow. I think war is never the answer to solving any problems. The best way to solve problems is to not have enemies.

The music industry's actions at the time of 9/11 and since have been actions driven by patriotism in most instances, and greed and stupidity to a lesser degree. Sounds like real life doesn't it?

There is a sufficiency in the world for man's need but not for man's greed.

Nothing makes us more vulnerable than loneliness, except greed.

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.

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.

I didn't do it because of the underlying greed that's prevailing, but it is about greed, doing the right thing at the right time using your clout when you have it and what for and what reason.

The organization and constant onward sweep of this movement exemplifies the resentment of the many toward the selfishness, greed and the neglect of the few.

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.

The ignorant mind, with its infinite afflictions, passions, and evils, is rooted in the three poisons. Greed, anger, and delusion.

New York City is a great monument to the power of money and greed... a race for rent.

The curse of the romantic is a greed for dreams, an intensity of expectation that, in the end, diminishes the reality.

Most of the time common stocks are subject to irrational and excessive price fluctuations in both directions as the consequence of the ingrained tendency of most people to speculate or gamble... to give way to hope, fear and greed.

Time! Joyless emblem of the greed of millions, robber of the best which earth can give.

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

Greed probably figures in my intellectual life as well, as I attempt to absorb a massive amount of information with consequent mental indigestion.

We've been raised to compete, to want more! More! More! It's a way of life. It's about greed.

We didn't become the most prosperous country in the world just by rewarding greed and recklessness. We didn't come this far by letting the special interests run wild. We didn't do it just by gambling and chasing paper profits on Wall Street. We built this country by making things, by producing goods we could sell.

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

Microsoft is not about greed. It's about innovation and fairness.

In our daily life, we encounter people who are angry, deceitful, intent only on satisfying their own needs. There is so much anger, distrust, greed, and pettiness that we are losing our capacity to work well together.

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

There is a lesson there about greed and it is a lesson I am willing to learn as well. Has it made me a distrustful person? I don't think so. But we probably look a bit more carefully at our financial situation now.

Lust and greed are more gullible than innocence.

My head can get to murder and rape for profit because I can understand greed as a human motive, but I cannot understand the voyeuristic desire to watch such a film. I can comprehend one and I cannot comprehend the other.

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

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.

We did not find it difficult to deal with Bush and his administration, because it is similar to regimes in our countries - both types include many who are full of arrogance and greed.