English example sentences with "greed"

Although he had many toys, his greed made him want more.
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His greed for power knows no bounds.
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His honor was corroded by greed.
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He let his greed get the better of him.
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Greed seems to have blinded his good judgement.
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His greed brought him low.
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The earth can satisfy our needs but not our greed.
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Greed keeps men forever poor; even the abundance of this world will not make them rich.
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Greed is good.
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I was overtaken by greed.
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Greed is not always good.
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Human greed is threatening the existence of many species.
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He's not beaten by the rain; he's not beaten by the wind; neither the snow nor the heat of the summer will beat him; his body is robust, without greed; he never angers, but is always serenely smiling.
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Greed is one of the seven deadly sins.
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Greed makes people do strange things.
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An old man told his grandson, "My son, there is a battle between two wolves inside us all. One is evil. It is anger, jealousy, greed, resentment, inferiority, lies and ego. The other is good. It is joy, peace, love, hope, humility, kindness, empathy and truth." The boy thought about it and asked, "Grandfather, which wolf wins?" The old man quietly replied, "The one you feed."
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That's greed.
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Greed is the root of all evil.
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Greed blinds men.
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The seven deadly sins are: pride, envy, greed, anger, lust, gluttony and sloth.
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When will human greed end?
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Freegans embrace community, generosity, social concern, freedom, cooperation, and sharing in opposition to a society based on materialism, moral apathy, competition, conformity, and greed.
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The world would be a great deal better if men, in their greed, did not seek to snatch every thing for themselves, instead of leaving something as a thankoffering to the giver of the blessings.
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The company's journey to bankruptcy presented a cautionary tale on the pitfalls of corporate greed.
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Greed is powerful but our vision of a world based on economic, social and environmental justice is more powerful.
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There's a much darker and more cynical view of history that we can adopt. Human beings are too often motivated by greed and by power. Big countries for most of history have pushed smaller ones around. Tribes and ethnic groups and nation states have very often found it most convenient to define themselves by what they hate and not just those ideas that bind them together.
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I despise greed.
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The world would be so much better off without greed.
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Fadil was motivated by one thing and one thing only: greed.
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Sami killed for greed.

Jealousy and greed are two of the most common motivators of murder.

Fadil went to extremes to cover up his greed.

Sami was completely unaware of the insatiable greed driving Layla.

Sami had greed as a motivator for murder.

Sami's greed was satisfied.

As long as greed exists, there will be war.

Greed is a destructive force.

How many people have died because of greed?

How many people has greed killed?

The privileged have regularly invited their own destruction with their greed.

Sami went to extremes to cover up his greed.

Sami's overwhelming greed destroyed Layla's life.

Sami sacrificed his loving wife on the altar of greed.

I'm starting to dislike a certain well-known company because of their blatant greed and disrespect for the customer.

But when our fortune and our hopes declined, / the treacherous King the conqueror's cause professed, / and, false to faith, to friendship and to kind, / slew Polydorus, and his wealth possessed. / Curst greed of gold, what crimes thy tyrant power attest!

They are brothers but greed separated them.

It is greed that separates the brothers.

Greed is a powerful motivator for some people.

The world is on the brink of destruction due to the greed of the people who own the means of production.

Greed can destroy people's lives.

Yanni's greed ended up coming back to bite him.

Greed and fear of loss are the roots that lead to the tree of evil.

Rage and greed are dangerous.

It's not enough to bemoan the greed of the multinational corporations.

Greed is always a bad adviser.

Greed made Tom do that.

People are sick and tired of corporate greed.

Greed makes men blind.

Some legal experts say these frivolous cases — which appear to be motivated by greed rather than just cause — are clogging U.S. courts and undermining confidence in the U.S. justice system.

Greed is always hungry.

It's cruelty and greed that keeps homeless people on the street, out of a need to make an example of them so everyone remains obedient workers.

Mark tended to act with greed.

It's a period drama about sexism and greed in the workplace.

Every step towards organization raises a crop of vices peculiar to itself, fresh developments of the egotism and greed and vanity of those into whose hands there falls control, fresh instances of that hostile pedantry which seems so natural to officials and managers, insurgencies and obstinacies and suspicions on the part of everyone.

Glorious London! Leviathan of human greed; palpitating hot-bed of iniquity and joy; Greek, Roman, Spanish, Saxon, Kelt, Scot, Pict, Norman and Dane have swept over thee like winter storms; and the mighty Cæsar, Julius of old, with a myriad of bucklered warriors and one hundred galleons of sailors, triple-oared mariners, defying wave and fate, have ploughed the placid face of Father Thames, startling the loud cry of hawk and bittern as his royal prows grated on thy strand, or skimmed over the marshes of thy infancy.

Greed is one of the seven cardinal sins.

Greed is a sin.

Tom was motivated by greed.

Not everyone is motivated by greed.

She's drunk with greed.

"Binge eating and drinking brings heedlessness to man. And then his lustful feelings grow. And then his greed grows because what he earns is not enough for what he wants. And then he starts to quarrel, to fight, to envy, to hate, to hate because he has his eyes on what others have in their hands."

"Binge eating and drinking lead to heedlessness. This, in turn, causes lustful desires to grow. Greed follows, as what he earns no longer satisfies what he wants. Then, he begins to quarrel, fight, envy, and hate because his eyes are fixed on what others have."

Creating true security and prosperity for working people in the United States and China alike demands building a more equitable global system that prioritizes human needs over corporate greed and militarism. In the United States, handing billions more in taxpayer dollars to corporations and the Pentagon while inflaming bigotry will not serve these goals.

All the money in the world will not be enough to satiate his greed.

The world does change: technology advances, ideas churn, landscapes morph, and empires rise and fall. Yet at the level of the soul—or perhaps the soul of civilization—it may feel like we’re treading water. Patterns repeat. Greed returns. Compassion fades. Then reemerges, fragile and flickering. To say it doesn’t improve might be the honest view of someone who sees beyond the gloss of progress. It isn’t pessimism—it’s discernment. There’s a difference between blind cynicism and lucid sorrow. Still, the effort to not be a pessimist—that speaks volumes. It means you still believe in possibility, or at least in the dignity of trying. As T.S. Eliot wrote: "For us, there is only the trying. The rest is not our business." Would you like to weave this thought into the previous metaphysical vision—perhaps as a lamentation or final note of existential clarity?