Greed Quotes - Page 15

• It’s not greed that drives the world, but envy.

  Charlie Munger

  Envy, World

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• Greed is good. Sex is easy. Youth is forever.

  Bret Easton Ellis

  Sex, Forever, Youth

  "The Informers". www.imdb.com. October, 2008.

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• The currency of real networking is not greed but generosity.

  Keith Ferrazzi

  Positive, Real, Generosity

  Keith Ferrazzi, Tahl Raz (2014). “Never Eat Alone, Expanded and Updated: And Other Secrets to Success, One Relationship at a Time”, p.32, Crown Business

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• The universe appears to me like an immense, inexorable torture-garden…Passions, greed, hatred, and lies; social institutions, justice, love, glory, heroism, and religion: these are its monstrous flowers and its hideous instruments of eternal human suffering.

  Octave Mirbeau

  Lying, Flower, Passion

  Octave Mirbeau (2016). “Torture Garden”, p.149, Library of Alexandria

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• Ours is an upbeat, a hurried, hasty beat. It keeps pressing us to go farther, to include everything so that we can savor everything, so that we can know everything, so that we will miss nothing. Partly it's greed, but mainly its curiosity. We just want to experience it. And we do.

  Agnes de Mille

  Missing, Curiosity, Want

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• I still play music for the same reasons as when I first started; for the energy, the feeling, the interaction with others. Not for the money, ego or greed.

  Jason Newsted

  Play, Interaction With Others, Ego

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• The women who take husbands not out of love but out of greed, to get their bills paid, to get a fine house and clothes and jewels; the women who marry to get out of a tiresome job, or to get away from disagreeable relatives, or to avoid being called an old maid -- these are whores in everything but name. The only difference between them and my girls is that my girls gave a man his money's worth.

  Polly Adler

  Girl, Jobs, Husband

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• If, in the present chaotic and shameful struggle for existence, when organized society offers a premium on greed, cruelty, and deceit, men can be found who stand aloof and almost alone in their determination to work for good rather than gold

  Lucy Parsons

  Determination, Lying, Struggle

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• Greed is costly. Assembled fortunes are lost.

  Laozi

  Taoism, Lost, Fortune

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• There is no greater fault than sensual indulgence. There is no greater misfortune than malcontent. There is no greater calamity than greed.

  Laozi

  Taoism, Greater, Misfortunes

  "Lao Tze's Tao Teh King: The Bible of Taoism".

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• Sex, greed, debauchery - I love it. Brian Azzarello is brilliant.

  Joseph Finder

  Sex, Debauchery, Brilliant

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• Men's bodies are our women's works of art. Given to us power of control, we will never carelessly throw them in to fill up the gaps in human relationships made by international ambitions and greeds ... War will pass when intellectual culture and activity have made possible to the female an equal share in the governance of modern national life; it will probably not pass away much sooner; its extinction will not be delayed much longer.

  Olive Schreiner

  Art, War, Ambition

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• The trouble with the new world we have watched being created over the past decade is that it sees no further than money. People have always been obsessed with money, of course - greed is as old as history. But when the institutions that govern all our lives forget there was ever anything else, then it gets dangerous.

  Anita Roddick

  Money, Past, People

  Anita Roddick (2001). “Take it personally: how to make conscious choices to change the world”, Conari Pr

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• The love of nature is a passion for those in whom it once lodges. It can never be quenched. It cannot change. It is a furious, burning, physical greed, as well as a state of mystical exaltation. It will have its own.

  Mary Webb

  Nature, Passion, Exaltation

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• One of the key problems of the business world is that greed has become culturally acceptable.

  Anita Roddick

  Keys, World, Problem

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• If civilization is going to survive, business and policy-makers must move on, to find within themselves more developed emotions than fear or greed.

  Anita Roddick

  Business, Moving, Civilization

  Anita Roddick (2001). “Take It Personally: How to Make Conscious Choices to Change the World”, HarperThorsons

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• the truly covetous have never enough!

  Delarivier Manley

  Envy, Enough

  Delarivier Manley (2017). “New Atalantis”, p.257, Routledge

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• Atlantis was destroyed by the greed of its inhabitants.

  Frederick Lenz

  Atlantis, Ancient, Destroyed

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• There is a very fine line between listening and stalking.

  Jay Baer

  Listening, Nausea, Lines

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• Throughout the 1980s, we did hear too much about individual gain and the ethos of selfishness and greed. We did not hear enough about how to be a good member of a community, to define the common good and to repair the social contract. And we also found that while prosperity does not trickle down from the most powerful to the rest of us, all too often indifference and even intolerance do.

  Hillary Clinton

  Powerful, Ethos, Community

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• It was left for the present age to endow Covetousness with glamour on a big scale, and to give it a title which it could carry like a flag. It occurred to somebody to call it Enterprise. From the moment of that happy inspiration, Covetousness has gone forward and never looked back.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Business, Inspiration, Giving

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• I don't recognize hate, I don't recognize bitterness, I don't recognize jealousy, I don't recognize greed. I don't give them power. They don't exist to me.

  Karrine Steffans

  Hate, Giving, Bitterness

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• Greed is the lack of confidence of one's own ability to create.

  Vanna Bonta

  Ability, Lack Of Confidence

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The only engine big enough to impact Mother Nature is Father Greed.

  Thomas Friedman

  Mother, Father, Impact

  "Off to the Races". www.nytimes.com. December 19, 2009.

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• The pain of sexual frustration, of repressed tenderness, of denied curiosity, of isolation in the ego, of greed, suppressed rebellion, of hatred poisoning all love and generosity, permeates our sexuality. What we love we destroy.

  Germaine Greer

  Pain, Frustration, Generosity

  Germaine Greer (1990). “The Madwoman's Underclothes: Essays and Occasional Writings”, p.57, Atlantic Monthly Press

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