Greed Quotes - Page 10

• We associate the North Atlantic with cod. The motto of Newfoundland used to be 'In cod we trust.' It was a joke, but it was essentially true. But there is no cod anymore. And that's extraordinary. It's all because of either greed or politics - Canadian politics.

  Simon Winchester

  Motto, Used, Extraordinary

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• The greed and envy of the nonproducer is insatiable, so that eventually nothing short of 100% taxation will appease him.

  Robert Ringer

  Envy, Taxation, Insatiable

  Robert J. Ringer (1983). “How you can find happiness during the collapse of Western civilization”, Harpercollins

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• Greed has replaced religion as the national religion, and with greed comes envy.

  Wesley Pruden

  Envy, Replaced

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• Pride is the king of vices...it is the first of the pallbearers of the soul...other vices destroy only their opposite virtues, as wantonness destroys chastity; greed destroys temperance; anger destroys gentleness; but pride destroys all virtues.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Kings, Pride, Opposites

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• The bad consequences of a government program usually don't show up immediately. And the delay may be long enough to hide the connection between the program and its results. So government never has to say it's sorry - never has to take responsibility for ht misery it causes. Instead it can blame everything on personal greed, profit-hungry corporations, and the 'private sector.' And the government's cure for the problems is to impose bigger programs, more regulation and higher taxes.

  Harry Browne

  Sorry, Responsibility, Government

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• Unrestrained greed means the ruin of the great woods and the drying up of the sources of the rivers.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Mean, Rivers, Woods

  Theodore Roosevelt (1899). “The Rough Riders: An Autobiography”, p.568, Library of America

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• But in the financial markets, without proper institutional rules, there's the law of the jungle - because there's greed! There's nothing wrong with greed, per se. It's not that people are more greedy now than they were 20 years ago. But greed has to be tempered, first, by fear of losses. So if you bail people out, there's less fear. And second, b prudential regulation and supervision to avoid certain excesses.

  Nouriel Roubini

  Loss, Years, Law

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• Liberals cling to the idea that critics of welfare are motivated by greed or callous disregard for the less fortunate. In fact, during the twenty-five years that followed Lyndon Johnson's declaration of war on poverty, U.S. tax payers spent $3 trillion providing every conceivable support for the poor, the elderly, and the infirm. Private foundations spent scores of billions more, and private and religious charities even more. Nevertheless, as Ronald Raegan later quipped, 'in the war on poverty, poverty won.'

  Mona Charen

  Religious, War, Elderly

  Mona Charen (2006). “Do-Gooders: How Liberals Hurt Those They Claim to Help and the Rest of Us”, Sentinel

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• Aren't you tired of these career politicians on the left side of the aisle moralizing about the greed of the 'wealthy' when these same politicians habitually buy votes with borrowed dollars? Who are they to lecture those who actually produce and contribute to the economy?

  David Limbaugh

  Tired, Careers, Dollars

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• This isn't about fans, greed or money. It's about being morally right or wrong. Nobody is governing the way music gets from artists to fans. It's all running amok.

  Lars Ulrich

  Running, Artist, Fans

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• You're not a road comic till you've watched Real Sex and American Greed alone in your hotel room.

  Iliza Shlesinger

  Sex, Real, Rooms

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• The powerful have no monopoly on greed, hatred, fear, or ignorance.

  Cornel West

  Powerful, Ignorance, Hatred

  Source: genius.com

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• Let me, if not by birth, have lands by wit;
  All with me's meet that I can fashion fit.

  William Shakespeare

  Fashion, Land, Politics

  William Shakespeare, Jonathan Bate, Eric Rasmussen (2009). “King Lear”, p.43, Palgrave Macmillan

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• Get-rich-quick thinking leads to three basic errors: (1) Getting involved with things you cannot understand; (2) Risking funds you cannot afford to lose, that is, borrowed funds; and (3) Making hasty decisions. Each of these actions violates one or more biblical principles... Together they constitute a sin called greed.

  Larry Burkett

  Biblical, Thinking, Errors

  Larry Burkett (1990). “Business by the Book: The Complete Guide of Biblical Principles for Business Men and Women”, Thomas Nelson Incorporated

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• It's time for the wealthy to pay their fair share before the middle class becomes the forgotten class.- And it's time for the banks to give back what they were given. There are those in politics, particularly those on the conservative side, who can't get enough of telling people that the wealthy one per cent must not be taxed because doing so kills jobs. The real job-killers are corporate greed and political expediency. It's time for working people in Maine and all across the country to take back the American dream.

  Stephen King

  Dream, Country, Jobs

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• Since in every European country between 1870 and 1914 there was a war party demanding armaments, an individualist party demanding ruthless competition, an imperialist party demanding a free hand over backward peoples, a socialist party demanding the conquest of power and a racialist party demanding internal purges against aliens - all of them, when appeals to greed and glory failed, invoked Spencer and Darwin, which was to say science incarnate.

  Jacques Barzun

  Country, War, Party

  Jacques Barzun (1958). “Darwin, Marx, Wagner: critique of a heritage”, Doubleday Books

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• If everybody's behavior can be explained by simple stupidity and greed, there's no point in assuming a conspiracy.

  P. J. Plauger

  Simple, Stupidity, Assuming

  P. J. Plauger (1994). “Programming on purpose III: essays on software technology”, Prentice Hall

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• Be fearful when there is greed and be greedy when there is fear.

  Warren Buffett

  Greedy, Fearful

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• Ambition is at the very core of success and extraordinary achievement. Unlike greed, it's a powerful, creative and constructive force.

  Jim Rohn

  Powerful, Ambition, Achievement

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• If greed were not the master of modern man, how could it be that the frenzy of economic activity does not abate as higher standards of living are attained, and that it is precisely the richest societies which pursue their economic advantage with the greatest ruthlessness?

  E. F. Schumacher

  Men, Doe, Ruthlessness

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• Wall Street is broken for sure because it succumbed to greed and corruption and pure speculation with no values.

  Deepak Chopra

  Wall, Broken, Corruption

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• Each of us needs to eliminate our anger, fear and greed. The roots of social conflicts and political tensions are in personal anger, fear and greed.

  Satish Kumar

  Roots, Political, Needs

  Interview with Frank Lipman, www.drfranklipman.com. April 14, 2009.

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• We honor ambition, we reward greed, we celebrate materialism, we worship acquisitiveness, we commercialize art, we cherish success and then we bark at the young about the gentle arts of the spirit. The kids know that if we really valued learning, we would pay our teachers what we pay our lawyers and stockbrokers. If we valued art, we would not measure it by its capacity to produce profits. If we regarded literature as important, we would remove it from the celebrity sweepstakes and spend a little money on our libraries.

  Russell Baker

  Teacher, Art, Ambition

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• In the 1980s and 1990s, Jack Welch, the CEO of General Electric, laid off over 100,000 employees. His reward? When he retired from GE, he received a golden parachute of over $400 million dollars. This is the kind of corporate greed and irresponsibility that is destroying the middle class and must be ended.

  Bernie Sanders

  Class, Rewards, Golden

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• If I give $1,000 dollars I deserve to get back $100,000 because I am just, that's not greed!

  Jesse Duplantis

  Giving, Dollars, Get Back

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