2006-07-09 07:19:40 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Holding on to material things and not wanting anyone else to prosper.
2006-07-09 07:25:26 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
There's a a fine line between Greed and Desire. Desire carries no ill intent to other people, it becomes Greed when you don't want anybody else to have it.
2006-07-09 07:27:56 · answer #2 · answered by C_Bass 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Master Yoda said: "Attachment leads to jealously; the shadow of greed, that is."
That quote from Star Wars EP3 rang true with me. The seed of greed exists as a fear of loss. The fear grows until it become a trait of one's personality to want more, and more, and more. The more of you "have" the less risk there is that you will lose something.
All my opinion, of course!
2006-07-09 07:27:03 · answer #3 · answered by BPMWare 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
"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." (John Steinbeck, Cannery Row)
"Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's need, but not every man's greed” Mahatma Gandhi
“He who is greedy is always in want.” Horace
One of the weaknesses of our age is our apparent inability to distinguish our need from our greed.
It is not the man who has little, but he who desires more, that is poor. Seneca
2006-07-09 07:31:54 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Greed is being selfish. Always wanting more than you than you need.
2006-07-09 07:27:58 · answer #5 · answered by Belle 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
greed is the natural desire to want gone ha-wire.
Without the understanding of your spiritual self , your carnal self takes control and the carnal knows no end, until it self destruct. The destruction of self and others is were the sin lies.
2006-07-09 07:31:35 · answer #6 · answered by Urntrede frdtrut 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
wanting to earn money honestly,
wanting the money that one has honestly earned,
wanting to earn an honest profit,
wanting to enjoy the pleasures of ones honestly earned successes
not a bad thing
there is nothing inherently evil about "greed"
Who lives only by what they NEED?
Who's to be the judge of what you NEED?
2006-07-09 07:26:18 · answer #7 · answered by My Big Bear Ron 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Greed is being selfish. You want everything for yourself. You don"t want anyone else to prosper. You want it all. You don"t share anything.
2006-07-09 09:37:22 · answer #8 · answered by concerned 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Being self concerned, wanting things for self with no thought for others.
2006-07-09 07:29:25 · answer #9 · answered by Mamma mia 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Excessive desires for things you dont need.To much of anything is not good for you.
2006-07-09 07:29:55 · answer #10 · answered by mrimprovize59@verizon.net 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋