Guru Nanak Quotes

The quest for riches darkens the sense of right and wrong.

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.

Money is evil.

Any time there is a lot of money or ego involved, people tend to behave badly.

But Satan now is wiser than of yore, and tempts by making rich, not making poor.

Great abundance of riches cannot be gathered and kept by any man without sin.

When money comes into play then that's all it's about wanting money, who's making the most who can get the most, me, me me... and in the end it screws up the person and the sport.

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

Every child was taught from his cradle that money was Mammon, the chief agent of the flesh and the devil.

When a man gets his money in bad ways, when he sees the better course and takes the worse, then the devil's in his heart, and that fixes him.

The possession of wealth leads almost inevitably to its abuse. It is the chief, if not the only, cause of evils which desolate this world below. The thirst for gold is responsible for the most regrettable lapses into sin.

As long as dishonorable success outranks honest effort—as long as society bows and cringes before the great thieves, there will be little ones enough to fill the jails.

... a moral skunk .... [who has] debauched America ...

All riches come from iniquity, and unless one has lost, another cannot gain.

The chief agent responsible for promoting the passions at the expense of justice turns out to be wealth.

Sir, I here enter my solemn protest against a low and calculating avarice entering this hall of legislation. It is only fit for shops and counting houses.

Some people cheat because they want to, because they can, because it gives them a thrill, or because they just can't do long-term relationships.

Fraud is the daughter of greed.

When we see the shameful fortunes amassed in all quarters of the globe, are we not impelled to exclaim that Judas' thirty pieces of silver have fructified across the centuries?

Greed is at the bottom of most of the wrong-doing with which government has to deal.

I think that money is the root of all evil. I've seen it happen.

Great eagerness in the pursuit of wealth, pleasure, or honor, cannot exist without sin.

The negative side of the American Dream comes when people pursue success at any cost, which in turn destroys the vision and the dream.

There are many selfish people who are extremely original, then they take those pure ideas and use them to raise themselves up, that is an insincere move.

Money is the worst currency that ever grew among mankind. This sacks cities, this drives men from their homes, this teaches and corrupts the worthiest minds to turn base deeds.