Excessive desire for wealth, profit, etc. is greediness.
Someone wants to become very prosperous. Some are desirous of having power and riches. Some want to earn name and fame. Some students get greedy to earn more and more knowledge. Some leaders have strong desires to win elections and get a place in the cabinet. Some families want to have an upper hand in the village. Some persons are greedy to learn more and more so that they may do something great. Some persons want to become rich and great overnight. Greediness is always there in all these persons. To be greedy for worldly possessions is not always good as one has to deviate from the right path in order to satisfy one’s greediness. But to be greedy for virtues and knowledge is always good. In the Mahabharata the great sage Vyaas says: ‘ Greediness, anger, envy, jealousy, malice, shamelessness, and harsh words spoken against each other—these different evils/weaknesses pierce into the body of human-beings.’ As we are human-beings, not gods, we bear these evils . But at the same time we have a unique mind that helps us to get rid of these evils or to mitigate them.
There are some people who are known to have put their family in a very precarious condition only because they have been unable to resist their avaricious desire. A greedy person becomes self-centred and from every angle he tries his best to satisfy his greediness. The greedier he is, the more problems he creates for himself. To satisfy his greediness he commits blunder after blunder. There runs a story that clarifies how greediness leaves a person to repent and remorse all his/her life. There lived an old woman who had a few hens. One of them gave her a golden egg daily. One day an idea struck her mind that if she cut the stomach of the hen off, she would get so many golden eggs. She killed the hen but got no egg. She was left in remorse all her life. So greedy was she. Some persons’ mouth begins to water, when they see others eat sweetmeats or other delicacies. Children are very susceptible to chocolates, toffees, etc. But it is but natural for the children. We all know very well that some of us grow greedy and greedy after every gain. However rich a person may be, he has to run after money shamelessly and blindly if he is overpowered by avariciousness. As his greediness is never fulfilled, he becomes a poor fellow in the eyes of the people. A greedy person is a poor person as he greedily craves for what he has had not.
By the way, this thing is copied from a blog and I was just checking how this system works.
jfnrf
i am greedy for all good things in life. i want all the food, the money, the women, and the power possible. i lie in bed and think about how much more I can get and how I can get it. I will never be able to stop. Some days I think i would like to, and some days, I just want more.
Alex Wagner
Greediness is one of the biggest flaws of the western society. The idea that people would rather gain more then give from their overflowing plentifulness is sickening and morally wrong. We should learn to share our wealth to those more in need.
Matias
I want it all and I want it now. I wish that I wouldn’t have to try or work so hard, and laziness consumes me. I procrastinate and never achieve, lay in bed and I can’t have all that they have because of it. Maybe another non existent life.
IGB
The merchants were always a bit greedy, but as time went by the greed in their eyes overcame the morality they once held onto dearly. They became what we know now as Republicans.
Jayme
I filled my pockets with every last bit of gold i could see. Finally! I made it through all the traps, all the horrors, I lost everyone else on the expedition but it doesn’t matter at all
*click*
What was that?
*crunch*
Nick Swain
Greed is one of the seven deadly sins. That’s what they say anyway. How is it a sin to want something for yourself though? I spend all my life giving, helping. “Can I carry your bags?”
“Let me help you cross the road.”
So what if I took it? It’s about time someone gave something to me, it’s not my fault if it’s a sin to give to myself…
Luke Eastman
He’s always greedy. Greedy with his hands, greedy with his mouth, greedy in his loins. He hungered for affection and any woman would do. This made him dangerous.
Anna
People are often greedy. They don’t have to, but it is a basic part of human nature — to want something for themselves, not caring about the others, outside of “inner circle” of family and friends. Civilization has created a counterbalances for this human trait.
xx
Well, for me, there was always a hunger. A feeling that could never quite be fulfilled. So, one day, when the chance finally presented itself to me to sate that feeling, I took it.
Oh, it was glorious. The feeling of the blood running down your throat was simply indescribable.
But once I had finished, I knew that my hunger would never be sated. I wanted more.
I wanted more.
Nabeeh
Why am I so greedy when it comes to you, greedy of wanting to know of things which might not be true.
Ain MC
the greed man stood in front of the door and looked inside, seeing the pots and pans dangling in the dark shop, reflecting light onto the dusty tables. as he looked, he saw another man enter from the back of the building, and jumped behind a wall. this was his chance, he thought, to save himself from never having what he wanted. as he walked around the building, he could hear the rumbling of various utensils as the crook rummaged through drawers.
Ned Whitten
most of the people in this world is greedy, there are certain levels of greed which defines people. For basic existence people have to be greedy, but it should be in an optimum level.
adf
Stupid people who think the world revolves around nothing but money and over look the efforts made by the ‘little guy’. People who don’t know how to share – what a world we could live in if there was no greed. In saying that though, I’m pretty dang greedy.
Megs
One of the worst possible qualities of a person. It is ignorant to think that oneself deserves more than others do. In reality, we can only but feel sorry for these people.
Owen H
Perhaps I am being too greedy. I’m going for the first chance I get, but then my mind questions: should I wait and be patient? What will she take me for if I rush this?
But then I’m struck by another fear: what if I act too late? What if the spell abates?
Iceman
I don’t know if it’s greedy to want this. Selfish is the word my mother uses. Unfair on the poor innocent masses who don’t have half as much as us. But I want. I want to sing in front of an audience of ten thousand, or ten. I want to sing all of the classics, loudly and brashly on a spotlit stage, with a handsome male lead singing by my side. And I want to sing in bars that are tight and crowded, where I’m only half-head over the din. I want all of that, but I can’t have it. Because it’s greedy to want more than what I already have – which is so much. But I do. Sometimes, at night. Often in the day. Always in the shower or the bath or when the radio plays and every time we go to an opera I know it could be me on that stage. But it isn’t. And can never be.
This greedy as cat, always asking meowing when I get milk for my cereal like “meow meow I want some fuckin milk” I give the dumb cat some but its never enough. Stupid greedy cat
jon
Many top corporations are led by greedy people. Comcast for example seeks only to exploit its customers for their money. Some people aren’t as greedy for example, founder of Microsoft Bill Gates. He has the Gates and Melinda Foundation (I think that is what it’s called) and donates to many charities.
Brandon Nguyen
my mind is greedy. it wont let my body sleep. it constantly forces it awake due to over thinking about anything and nothing at all. i hate my mind. i wish it would shut the fuck up for once.
james
I always felt that I was greedy. Did I actually need much? Not by a long shot. But let me tell you, and I can tell you that most Americans will agree with you: we have a tendency to feel greedy at least once in our lives. Let me tell you about the tale that ended up with me in a coma, in the hospital, right now. All started with greeed. Yoyu listeniing? ALrihgt
98plus
There was a greedy man named John. He was scheming on how to be much more greedy. “My greedy levels are low…” John said.
He thought and thought about how he could become more greedy but the time is running out and he has to go to sleep now.
Goodnight, John
a
Sometimes people feel not content. and in order to fulfill their need they trample over others. This is what we call greed. it is looking in your neighbors bowl.
Mike
America is the first word that comes to mind when I think of greedy. Capitalism more or less, the 1 percent, but are the 1% really greedy…? I’m not sure…………..
Martin
Corporate wealth, tax evasion. Taking more than one should – ethically. Lack of sharing? No distribution of wealth? Does this sound like socialism? It might be. Greedy? Fat, gluttony.. Stop eating all the cakes, greedy bastard. Won the lottery?
Sean
I hate people who are greedy.
Greed is dumb, but people are programmed into greed.
With more greed comes more greed.
Lol.
I may be predisposed to hating greed because of certain people.
But that is okay, because greed is stupid anyway.
I hate greed.
having the most for yourself is irrelevant to anything.
If noone else holds value in your life, what is your life really worth?
seriously though, greed fucking sucks ass
Thanks reddit for this one. Good stuff.
Dylan Stevens
Too many people look out for themselves only. We are hardwired to be this way, so it is difficult to break the habit of being greedy. However, greed will destroy us.
Matt
All I want is just a happy family and my brother to be cured of computer addiction and my family to be safe and be healthy always. Am I being too greedy?
This all consuming idiotic thing that just seems to take the most beautiful of objects and make them shitty.
Greed has claimed many a victim and I wish it would just leave everyone alone because sometimes it’s OKAY to want things, even in excess, people who want things in excess tend to be the people with the most interesting stories to tell. It’s impossible to like someone who’s entire existence is just a string of boring possessions.
maya
A man walks in with 1000 dollars in tow. He says he wants a watch. The shopkeeper gets him a watch and asks him if it’s this one. He says yes, takes the watch, and disappears. It is later revealed that this man was a stingy crab.
Ian Wise
He was so greedy, with those eyes. Always looking around. Gulping in what he had not seen for days and days. What else was he suppose to do? Shut them off? Not look at anything ever again?
Gabby
There is no getting around it. No point dancing around racial tolerance and political correctness. The people in this country are fat, lazy and greedy. Facts are facts.
Together we form an alliance to withstand all greed from this point on in our nations society. We must hold true to our voices and unprejudiced beings and instead of feeling with our pockets, feel with our hearts. Together, we defeat evil. Together.
Zach
The man looked around in the shop. All the items on display seemed to whisper to him: “Me, take me! I am the one you want, and take my brother too! Take ALL OF US”. He stumbled forward in blind motion, mind-numbed by the treasure around him. All he could think was that he wanted all.
Sacha
Derek pushed Stiles into the bedroom with a slamming force that almost made the younger man topple to the carpet. But he regained his footing quickly and met Derek’s body halfway, their lips colliding in a hungry competition for the upper hand. His hands claw at Derek’s shirt.
“Greedy, much?” the older man chuckles low in his mouth, going for the belt buckle at Stiles crotch.
Tiana
the greedy snail walked through the park. as he walked he spied all the lose change scattered across the grass and path he picked them up with his slimy trail. he went directly to the fountain and swallowed not only the pennies thrown in there but the water as well.
the water filled up his stomach and so did the pennies until they tore a hole straight through him when he died the park onlookers saw nothing but a pile of pennies and couldnt see the snail burried beneath it all
syd
Greed is interesting because it is dependent upon us as beings, as beings who relate to one another, who connect to form a society, holding tightly to a rather exclusive definition of property. Why can’t everyone just have everything?
Noam Momsky
The man in the store was so greedy that he decided he was going to hold up the place and make everyone empty their pockets, and make the cashier empty his pockets and the register and the man stole everyones money and the money in the cash register
Connor
Nana sat on her bed, crying. She wasn’t being greedy, she just wanted her family to be together. Wasn’t that what a family was supposed to be? If they couldn’t be together, then at least she wanted to be able to spend time with both her mother and her father, and the same for her brother. Shouldn’t they have that choice?
Gangstar are greedy. Politics use to be greedy
Excessive desire for wealth, profit, etc. is greediness.
Someone wants to become very prosperous. Some are desirous of having power and riches. Some want to earn name and fame. Some students get greedy to earn more and more knowledge. Some leaders have strong desires to win elections and get a place in the cabinet. Some families want to have an upper hand in the village. Some persons are greedy to learn more and more so that they may do something great. Some persons want to become rich and great overnight. Greediness is always there in all these persons. To be greedy for worldly possessions is not always good as one has to deviate from the right path in order to satisfy one’s greediness. But to be greedy for virtues and knowledge is always good. In the Mahabharata the great sage Vyaas says: ‘ Greediness, anger, envy, jealousy, malice, shamelessness, and harsh words spoken against each other—these different evils/weaknesses pierce into the body of human-beings.’ As we are human-beings, not gods, we bear these evils . But at the same time we have a unique mind that helps us to get rid of these evils or to mitigate them.
There are some people who are known to have put their family in a very precarious condition only because they have been unable to resist their avaricious desire. A greedy person becomes self-centred and from every angle he tries his best to satisfy his greediness. The greedier he is, the more problems he creates for himself. To satisfy his greediness he commits blunder after blunder. There runs a story that clarifies how greediness leaves a person to repent and remorse all his/her life. There lived an old woman who had a few hens. One of them gave her a golden egg daily. One day an idea struck her mind that if she cut the stomach of the hen off, she would get so many golden eggs. She killed the hen but got no egg. She was left in remorse all her life. So greedy was she. Some persons’ mouth begins to water, when they see others eat sweetmeats or other delicacies. Children are very susceptible to chocolates, toffees, etc. But it is but natural for the children. We all know very well that some of us grow greedy and greedy after every gain. However rich a person may be, he has to run after money shamelessly and blindly if he is overpowered by avariciousness. As his greediness is never fulfilled, he becomes a poor fellow in the eyes of the people. A greedy person is a poor person as he greedily craves for what he has had not.
By the way, this thing is copied from a blog and I was just checking how this system works.
i am greedy for all good things in life. i want all the food, the money, the women, and the power possible. i lie in bed and think about how much more I can get and how I can get it. I will never be able to stop. Some days I think i would like to, and some days, I just want more.
Greediness is one of the biggest flaws of the western society. The idea that people would rather gain more then give from their overflowing plentifulness is sickening and morally wrong. We should learn to share our wealth to those more in need.
I want it all and I want it now. I wish that I wouldn’t have to try or work so hard, and laziness consumes me. I procrastinate and never achieve, lay in bed and I can’t have all that they have because of it. Maybe another non existent life.
The merchants were always a bit greedy, but as time went by the greed in their eyes overcame the morality they once held onto dearly. They became what we know now as Republicans.
I filled my pockets with every last bit of gold i could see. Finally! I made it through all the traps, all the horrors, I lost everyone else on the expedition but it doesn’t matter at all
*click*
What was that?
*crunch*
Greed is one of the seven deadly sins. That’s what they say anyway. How is it a sin to want something for yourself though? I spend all my life giving, helping. “Can I carry your bags?”
“Let me help you cross the road.”
So what if I took it? It’s about time someone gave something to me, it’s not my fault if it’s a sin to give to myself…
He’s always greedy. Greedy with his hands, greedy with his mouth, greedy in his loins. He hungered for affection and any woman would do. This made him dangerous.
People are often greedy. They don’t have to, but it is a basic part of human nature — to want something for themselves, not caring about the others, outside of “inner circle” of family and friends. Civilization has created a counterbalances for this human trait.
Well, for me, there was always a hunger. A feeling that could never quite be fulfilled. So, one day, when the chance finally presented itself to me to sate that feeling, I took it.
Oh, it was glorious. The feeling of the blood running down your throat was simply indescribable.
But once I had finished, I knew that my hunger would never be sated. I wanted more.
I wanted more.
Why am I so greedy when it comes to you, greedy of wanting to know of things which might not be true.
the greed man stood in front of the door and looked inside, seeing the pots and pans dangling in the dark shop, reflecting light onto the dusty tables. as he looked, he saw another man enter from the back of the building, and jumped behind a wall. this was his chance, he thought, to save himself from never having what he wanted. as he walked around the building, he could hear the rumbling of various utensils as the crook rummaged through drawers.
most of the people in this world is greedy, there are certain levels of greed which defines people. For basic existence people have to be greedy, but it should be in an optimum level.
Stupid people who think the world revolves around nothing but money and over look the efforts made by the ‘little guy’. People who don’t know how to share – what a world we could live in if there was no greed. In saying that though, I’m pretty dang greedy.
One of the worst possible qualities of a person. It is ignorant to think that oneself deserves more than others do. In reality, we can only but feel sorry for these people.
Perhaps I am being too greedy. I’m going for the first chance I get, but then my mind questions: should I wait and be patient? What will she take me for if I rush this?
But then I’m struck by another fear: what if I act too late? What if the spell abates?
I don’t know if it’s greedy to want this. Selfish is the word my mother uses. Unfair on the poor innocent masses who don’t have half as much as us. But I want. I want to sing in front of an audience of ten thousand, or ten. I want to sing all of the classics, loudly and brashly on a spotlit stage, with a handsome male lead singing by my side. And I want to sing in bars that are tight and crowded, where I’m only half-head over the din. I want all of that, but I can’t have it. Because it’s greedy to want more than what I already have – which is so much. But I do. Sometimes, at night. Often in the day. Always in the shower or the bath or when the radio plays and every time we go to an opera I know it could be me on that stage. But it isn’t. And can never be.
This greedy as cat, always asking meowing when I get milk for my cereal like “meow meow I want some fuckin milk” I give the dumb cat some but its never enough. Stupid greedy cat
Many top corporations are led by greedy people. Comcast for example seeks only to exploit its customers for their money. Some people aren’t as greedy for example, founder of Microsoft Bill Gates. He has the Gates and Melinda Foundation (I think that is what it’s called) and donates to many charities.
my mind is greedy. it wont let my body sleep. it constantly forces it awake due to over thinking about anything and nothing at all. i hate my mind. i wish it would shut the fuck up for once.
I always felt that I was greedy. Did I actually need much? Not by a long shot. But let me tell you, and I can tell you that most Americans will agree with you: we have a tendency to feel greedy at least once in our lives. Let me tell you about the tale that ended up with me in a coma, in the hospital, right now. All started with greeed. Yoyu listeniing? ALrihgt
There was a greedy man named John. He was scheming on how to be much more greedy. “My greedy levels are low…” John said.
He thought and thought about how he could become more greedy but the time is running out and he has to go to sleep now.
Goodnight, John
Sometimes people feel not content. and in order to fulfill their need they trample over others. This is what we call greed. it is looking in your neighbors bowl.
America is the first word that comes to mind when I think of greedy. Capitalism more or less, the 1 percent, but are the 1% really greedy…? I’m not sure…………..
Corporate wealth, tax evasion. Taking more than one should – ethically. Lack of sharing? No distribution of wealth? Does this sound like socialism? It might be. Greedy? Fat, gluttony.. Stop eating all the cakes, greedy bastard. Won the lottery?
I hate people who are greedy.
Greed is dumb, but people are programmed into greed.
With more greed comes more greed.
Lol.
I may be predisposed to hating greed because of certain people.
But that is okay, because greed is stupid anyway.
I hate greed.
having the most for yourself is irrelevant to anything.
If noone else holds value in your life, what is your life really worth?
seriously though, greed fucking sucks ass
Thanks reddit for this one. Good stuff.
Too many people look out for themselves only. We are hardwired to be this way, so it is difficult to break the habit of being greedy. However, greed will destroy us.
All I want is just a happy family and my brother to be cured of computer addiction and my family to be safe and be healthy always. Am I being too greedy?
This all consuming idiotic thing that just seems to take the most beautiful of objects and make them shitty.
Greed has claimed many a victim and I wish it would just leave everyone alone because sometimes it’s OKAY to want things, even in excess, people who want things in excess tend to be the people with the most interesting stories to tell. It’s impossible to like someone who’s entire existence is just a string of boring possessions.
A man walks in with 1000 dollars in tow. He says he wants a watch. The shopkeeper gets him a watch and asks him if it’s this one. He says yes, takes the watch, and disappears. It is later revealed that this man was a stingy crab.
He was so greedy, with those eyes. Always looking around. Gulping in what he had not seen for days and days. What else was he suppose to do? Shut them off? Not look at anything ever again?
There is no getting around it. No point dancing around racial tolerance and political correctness. The people in this country are fat, lazy and greedy. Facts are facts.
Together we form an alliance to withstand all greed from this point on in our nations society. We must hold true to our voices and unprejudiced beings and instead of feeling with our pockets, feel with our hearts. Together, we defeat evil. Together.
The man looked around in the shop. All the items on display seemed to whisper to him: “Me, take me! I am the one you want, and take my brother too! Take ALL OF US”. He stumbled forward in blind motion, mind-numbed by the treasure around him. All he could think was that he wanted all.
Derek pushed Stiles into the bedroom with a slamming force that almost made the younger man topple to the carpet. But he regained his footing quickly and met Derek’s body halfway, their lips colliding in a hungry competition for the upper hand. His hands claw at Derek’s shirt.
“Greedy, much?” the older man chuckles low in his mouth, going for the belt buckle at Stiles crotch.
the greedy snail walked through the park. as he walked he spied all the lose change scattered across the grass and path he picked them up with his slimy trail. he went directly to the fountain and swallowed not only the pennies thrown in there but the water as well.
the water filled up his stomach and so did the pennies until they tore a hole straight through him when he died the park onlookers saw nothing but a pile of pennies and couldnt see the snail burried beneath it all
Greed is interesting because it is dependent upon us as beings, as beings who relate to one another, who connect to form a society, holding tightly to a rather exclusive definition of property. Why can’t everyone just have everything?
The man in the store was so greedy that he decided he was going to hold up the place and make everyone empty their pockets, and make the cashier empty his pockets and the register and the man stole everyones money and the money in the cash register
Nana sat on her bed, crying. She wasn’t being greedy, she just wanted her family to be together. Wasn’t that what a family was supposed to be? If they couldn’t be together, then at least she wanted to be able to spend time with both her mother and her father, and the same for her brother. Shouldn’t they have that choice?