Greed Quotes - Page 13

• I always like to remain a fan, put it that way: and I like to hold the idealised version of what these artists are like. Greed is one of those components of human nature that's inherent in everyone, and sometimes it is an unpleasant thing to engage in.

  DJ Shadow

  Artist, Sometimes, Human Nature

  Source: thequietus.com

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• Our country, our economy - don't doubt me on this - our economy is based on capitalism. Barack Obama's stated reason for being inspired by Reverend Wright was his speech, 'White man's greed runs a world in need.' That inspired Obama, 'White man's greed runs a world in need.' That's the real American dream. Working hard you will get ahead. But you can't have that if you want to create a permanent underclass. You simply cannot have people getting ahead. It destroys the whole notion of a permanent underclass.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Country, Running, Dream

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• We've got to start also holding people accountable, and we've got to reward people who succeed. But somehow in Washington today - and I'm afraid on Wall Street - greed is rewarded, excess is rewarded, and corruption - or certainly failure to carry out our responsibility is rewarded.

  John McCain

  Wall, Responsibility, People

  Source: www.nytimes.com

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• Community after community is rising up, ranchers, developers, environmentalists, and local commissioners, all saying this is not the best use of our public lands. It is a story that is largely unknown in the rest of the country. It is a disturbing and community-destroying example of domestic imperialism being waged against people in places deeply connected to the public lands that are our public commons. The Bush energy policy is a short-term strategy based on corporate greed instead of a sustainable vision of what best supports local economies and healthy ecosystems.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Country, People, Support

  Source: progressive.org

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• This is an incredibly creative time. It is a difficult time. It is a disparaging time. A time of cultural and global transitions based on the realization that the Earth cannot support nonsustainable practices anymore. I believe capitalism will eventually be replaced by a communitarian ethic where the rights and care of all beings will be taken into consideration, not just the greed of a corporate few.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Believe, Taken, Support

  Source: progressive.org

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• You do just have to go back to moral philosophy and you've got to say, okay, there is greed, people do want more and more, but then what restrains them and what restrained them in the past was a view of life in which one's satisfaction wasn't the most important thing, that you just, you needed enough and you could say, "Enough is enough." Maybe religion will get you there, maybe just classic moral philosophy, but you have to have some of that, or else you're always on the gravy train.

  Robert Skidelsky, Baron Skidelsky

  Philosophy, Past, People

  Source: bigthink.com

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• The subject matter of Entitlement remains relevant. Entitlement is an attitude: it is the assumption, I am owed what I get. It's a nasty attitude because people are not grateful for what they get. Instead, greed prevails and is expressed as, What have you done for me lately?

  Judith M Bardwick

  Attitude, Grateful, People

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• As conscious adult women, if we really do care about the state of girls and women worldwide, we need to train this next generation of girls because they are going to be the ones taking over and they are going to be the ones that shift this paradigm. Unfortunately for our generation, we've been raised in a society where greed trumps all. In other words, where the bottom line is money...where money affects how we perceive each other, and how we perceive ourselves and our value. We need to break that now with this younger generation.

  Kamala Lopez

  Girl, Care, Break

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• It's really hard to have a fair discussion when you're faced with militarism, aggression, and greed. The militarists do not want dialogue. They want what they want. They're psychotic. They're greedy, they're narcissistic, and they're dangerous.

  Carolee Schneemann

  Narcissistic, Psychotic, Dangerous

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Donald Trump ran for office complaining that at $19 trillion, the US debt was completely out of control, and yet what he's planning to do is throw trillions of dollars more onto that debt. If the proposed tax plan cuts upon the wealthiest Americans is enacted, 10 years from now America's debt will be over $30 trillion. And so, he's contradicting, his own stated positions. And that's because, to Donald, none of this is about policy. It's not about sound economics. It's about greed and the glorification of the great leader.

  David Cay Johnston

  Cutting, Office, Leader

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• The whole Ireland was taken over by greed and materialism. It was extraordinary. The price of every house had skyrocketed. If you were a small farmer and you had two fields outside, if you built 17 bungalows on them all, you become a millionaire, that kind of thing. It was extraordinary to see how rapidly that kind of ethic takes over a whole culture, but that's what's happened to us since the year 1998, about. It's completely extraordinary how little regard the culture had for the landscape. The country is now full of these half-built industrial parks and hotels.

  Neil Jordan

  Country, Taken, House

  Source: film.avclub.com

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• Sitting with a deck of cards in your hand all day is an obsession. Visiting print shops and bookstores and libraries is an obsession. And writing about this is an obsession. I think, in general, most collectors are obsessed. I think the only form of a rationalized greed is when you're collecting something you are supposedly serious about.

  Ricky Jay

  Writing, Thinking, Library

  Source: film.avclub.com

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• People often grudge others what they cannot enjoy themselves.

  Aesop

  Relationship, People, Fables

  Aesop (2015). “Aesop's Fables”, p.41, Pelekanos Books

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• Do not follow vain desires; for verily he who prospers is preserved from lust, greed and anger.

  Abu Bakr

  Anger, Lust, Desire

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• When the stock market crashed, Franklin Roosevelt got on the television and didn't just talk about the princes of greed. He said, 'Look, here's what happened.'

  Joe Biden

  Looks, Television, Franklin

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• The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.

  William Blake

  Life, Experience, Excess

  The Marriage of Heaven and Hell "Proverbs of Hell" (1790 - 1793)

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• It has been said that the love of money is the root of all evil. The want of money is so quite as truly.

  Samuel Butler

  Love, Money, Roots

  Erewhon (1872) ch. 20

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• We all seem to be about aggression and greed. It's a massive pressure that affects us all.

  Eric Cantona

  Pressure, Aggression, Massive

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• If you eat junk, you look like junk. People say, 'It's not my fault, it's my glands.' It's not; it's greed!

  Joan Collins

  People, Junk, Looks

  "HELLO! Exclusive: Joan Collins opens the doors to her London home for the first time". www.hellomagazine.com. October 11, 2010.

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• The number-one job of the hedge-fund manager is not to make sure that you can retire with a smile on your face - it's for him to retire with a smile on his face.

  Mark Cuban

  Smile, Jobs, Selfish

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• He who distinguishes the true savor of his food can never be a glutton; he who does not cannot be otherwise.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Food, Cooking, Doe

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Citizen Thoreau: Walden, Civil Disobedience, Life Without Principle, Slavery in Massachusetts, A Plea for Captain John Brown”, p.133, Graphic Arts Books

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• When I say it's you I like, I'm talking about that part of you that knows that life is far more than anything you can ever see or hear or touch. That deep part of you that allows you to stand for those things without which humankind cannot survive. Love that conquers hate, peace that rises triumphant over war, and justice that proves more powerful than greed.

  Fred Rogers

  Love, Powerful, Hate

  Fred Rogers (2006). “Wisdom from the World According to Mister Rogers: Important Things to Remember”, p.94, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

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• Rejoice for those around you who transform into the Force. Mourn them, do not. Miss them, do not. Attachment leads to jealousy. The shadow of greed, that is. Train yourself to let go of everything you fear to lose

  George Lucas

  Letting Go, Attachment, Missing

  George Lucas (2005). “Revenge of the Sith: Illustrated Screenplay: Star Wars: Episode III”, p.54, Del Rey

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• Evil conquered?' said Gwydion. 'You have learned much, but learn this last and hardest of lessons. You have conquered only the enchantments of evil. That was the easiest of your tasks, only a beginning, not an ending. Do you believe evil itself to be so quickly overcome? Not so long as men still hate and slay each other, when greed and anger goad them. Against these even a flaming sword cannot prevail, but only that portion of good in all men's hearts whose flame can never be quenched.

  Lloyd Alexander

  Hate, Believe, Heart

  Lloyd Alexander (2014). “The High King: The Chronicles of Prydain”, p.164, Usborne Publishing Ltd

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• The world is being run by people my age, men my age, with falling-out hair and health worries, and it frightens me. When the leaders were older than me I could believe in their wisdom, I could believe they had transcended rage and malice and the need to be loved. Now I know better. I look at the faces in newspapers, in magazines, and wonder: what greeds, what furies drive them on?

  Margaret Atwood

  Running, Believe, Fall

  Margaret Atwood (1989). “Cat's Eye”, Bantam

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