Greed Quotes - Page 11

• My mother was a tremendous woman. I was just cleaning up old trunks and I found a book with her notes written during the war years, in the 1940s. She was studying in Lahore, which became Pakistan. She was writing about how women alone could bring peace to the world, that the men with all their greed and egos were creating all these tensions and violence. I always knew she was a feminist, ahead of her time.

  Vandana Shiva

  Mother, War, Book

  Interview with David Barsamian, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. September 29, 2011.

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• European and American companies companies do create jobs for some people but what they're mainly going to do is make an already wealthy elite wealthier, and increase its greed and strong desire to hang on to power. So immediately and in the long run, these companies - harm the democratic process a great deal.

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  Running, Strong, Jobs

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• I really feel like if everyone listened to their angels the world which shift. We wouldn't see any kind of greed or competition - it would really be the world of kindness .

  Doreen Virtue

  Kindness, Angel, Competition

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• I think what the secretary Hillary Clinton has recognized is the American people are extremely angry about the power of Wall Street, the greed, the illegal behavior of Wall Street.

  Bernie Sanders

  Wall, Thinking, People

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• I don't hate religion, I try not to hate religion. I hate the terrible things that religion makes people do, and I hate the greed that comes from it.

  Hutch Harris

  Hate, People, Trying

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• You can see it in terms of the obsession on Wall Street with not just profits but greed, more profit, more profit.

  Cornel West

  Wall, Obsession, Profit

  "Cornel West Reconsiders President Obama". "Talk of the Nation" with Tony Cox, www.npr.org. August 2, 2010.

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• It's a spiritual malnutrition tied to a moral constipation, where people have a sense of what's right and what's good. It's just stuck, and they can't get it out because there's too much greed. There's too much obsession with reputation and addiction to narrow conceptions of success.

  Cornel West

  Spiritual, Addiction, People

  "Cornel West Reconsiders President Obama". "Talk of the Nation" with Tony Cox, www.npr.org. August 2, 2010.

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• Very unfairly, there's a negative image of the kid, which really stems from the greed and selfishness of the NBA and NCAA. They're forcing these kids to go to school.

  Sonny Vaccaro

  School, Kids, Nba

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• It is a feeble compassion that pulls up short where self-interest begins.

  Norm Phelps

  Buddhist, Compassion, Self

  Norm Phelps (2004). “The Great Compassion: Buddhism and Animal Rights”, p.14, Lantern Books

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• Farmed animals are not future Buddhas donating their flesh out of compassion for those of us who have developed a craving for it. They are victims of our greed from whom we steal the most precious gift any of us has: life.

  Norm Phelps

  Buddhist, Compassion, Animal

  Norm Phelps (2004). “The Great Compassion: Buddhism and Animal Rights”, p.110, Lantern Books

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• We care about equality and democracy within the band and outside the band. For us life is about cooperation and solidarity, not about egotism, greed, or competition. This means that we prefer to work with people and bands that have a similar sort of mentality and attitude.

  G.W. Sok

  Attitude, Mean, People

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• ...people of old deemed freedom from greed precious, and this is how they got beyond the world.

  Zicheng Hong

  People, Taoism, World

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• One of the popular views in the liberal circles of the West is that we are actually 'all victims of capitalism'. I disagree. This savage global capitalism is only one of the most terrible bi-products of the dominant Western culture of racism, greed, brutality and unbridled desire to control the world.

  Andre Vltchek

  Circles, Views, Racism

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• If you're really going to uncover something as an artist, you're going to come into access with parts of your personality and your psyche that are really uncomfortable to face: your own ambition, your own greed, your own avarice, your own jealousies, and anything that would get in the way of the purity of your own artistic voice.

  Billy Corgan

  Ambition, Artist, Voice

  "A Conversation with Billy Corgan of the Smashing Pumpkins". Interview with Sharon London, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• We have become so addicted to our greed-driven habits that we have lost our moral compass and don't know what is right and wrong.

  Sharon Gannon

  Moral, Compass, Habit

  "Sharon Gannon on Veganism". jivamuktiyoga.com. November 16, 2016.

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• The raising of animals for food and all that it entails is the single most destructive force impacting our planet's fragile ecosystems. Our planet simply cannot sustain the greed of billions of human beings who are eating other animals.

  Sharon Gannon

  Animal, Ecosystems, Eating

  "Sharon Gannon on Veganism". jivamuktiyoga.com. November 16, 2016.

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• Throughout most of our history, nothing - not flood, famine, plague, or new weapons - has endangered humanity one-tenth as much as the narcissistic ego, with its self-aggrandizing presumptions and its hell-hound spawn of fear and greed.

  Tom Robbins

  Self, Humanity, Ego

  "The Syntax of Sorcery". Interview with Tony Vigorito, realitysandwich.com. June 6, 2012.

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• No great advancement has ever been kept at bay because of ideology, nor greed. Eventually progress moves us forward.

  Mark Ruffalo

  Moving, Progress, Advancement

  "ORIGIN Interview: Mark Ruffalo on Climate Change, the Monopoly on Our Energy Systems, Fighting Fracking, the True Cost of Fossil Fuel Pollution, Showing Compassion, and Being Who You Say You Are". Interview with Leilani Münter, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. April 27, 2016.

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• As humans try to evolve out of greed, let's put aside some wild places, protected lands, protected farms, things like that, since we may not evolve fast enough to protect nature.

  Elizabeth Lesser

  Land, Wild Places, Trying

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. August 4, 2013.

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• You can't take anything with you. So I don't understand this whole psychotic area of greed, I don't get it.

  Chuck D

  Psychotic, Areas, Whole

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. May 12, 2012.

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• I'm against American corporations buying politicians to remove limits to greed, capitalizing on other people's misery, actively creating misery on which to capitalize, "financializing" every moment of our enslaved lives. Then when China or somebody takes over, then it will be [them] doing those things that I'll be against.

  Greg Saunier

  Creating, People, Corporations

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• A little more kindness, A little less speed, A little more giving, A little less greed, A little more smile, A little less frown, A little less kicking, A man while he's down, A little more "We", A little less "I", A little more laugh, A little less cry, A little more flowers, On the pathway of life, And fewer on graves, At the end of the strife.

  Mark Twain

  Kindness, Flower, Men

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• After the strike, I lost interest. In reality, neither players nor owners care in the least about the fans. The greed of both factions has destroyed baseball's credibility, at least for the present.

  W. P. Kinsella

  Baseball, Reality, Player

  Interview with Rob Darnell, robdarnell.com. August 21, 2015.

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• [Mid-list writers are now] less greed on the part of both publishers and chain booksellers. It is easier for them to publish and sell only blockbusters and leave the real work to small presses.

  W. P. Kinsella

  Real, Lists, Easier

  Interview with Rob Darnell, robdarnell.com. August 21, 2015.

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• I think most people are very, very much motivated by sex - greed, sex, and hunger.

  Truman Capote

  Sex, Thinking, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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