Greed Quotes - Page 16

• 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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• Mysticism has often been misunderstood as the attempt to escape this simple, phenomenal world to a more pure existence in heaven beyond. This is not mysticism, but Gnosticism. Biblical mysticism is the attempt to exit 'this world' to an alternative reality that pervades the old order. Its goal is to jettison the mind-set that says 'greed is good,' selfishness is normal,' and 'killing is necessary.' Mysticism in biblical terms is not escapism, as so many have caricatured it, but a fight for ethics and social change.

  Walter Wink

  Biblical, Fighting, Simple

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• Ignorance, hatred and greed are killing nature.

  Masanobu Fukuoka

  Ignorance, Hatred, Killing

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• That is what is so marvelous about Europe; the people long ago learned that space and beauty and quiet refuges in a great city, where children may play and old people sit in the sun, are of far more value to the inhabitants than real estate taxes and contractors' greed.

  Ilka Chase

  Children, Real, Long Ago

  Ilka Chase (1967). “Fresh from the Laundry”

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• The source of peace is within us; so also the source of war. And the real enemy is within us, and not outside. The source of war is not the existence of nuclear weapons or other arms. It is the minds of human beings who decide to push the button and to use those arms out of hatred, anger or greed.

  Dalai Lama

  Real, War, Anger

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• Well-being is possible to the degree to which one has overcome one's narcissism; to the degree to which one is open, responsive, sensitive, awake, empty.... Well-being means, finally, to drop one's Ego, to give up greed, to cease chasing after preservation and the aggrandizement of the Ego, to be and to experience one's self in the act of being, not in having, preserving, coveting, using.

  Erich Fromm

  Giving Up, Mean, Self

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• The bounty of nature is too little for the greedy person.

  Seneca the Younger

  Littles, Persons, Bounty

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• What keeps faith cheerful is the extreme persistence of gentleness and humor. Gentleness is everywhere in daily life, a sign that faith rules through ordinary things: through cooking and small talk, through storytelling, making love, fishing, tending animals and sweet corn and flowers, through sports, music, and books, raising kids-all the places where the gravy soaks in and grace shines through. Even in a time of elephantine vanity and greed, one never has to look far to see the campfires of gentle people. Lacking any other purpose in life, it would be good enough to live for their sake.

  Garrison Keillor

  Sports, Sweet, Flower

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• She had been so wicked that in all her life she had done only one good deed-given an onion to a beggar. So she went to hell. As she lay in torment she saw the onion, lowered down from heaven by an angel. She caught hold of it. He began to pull her up. The other damned saw what was happening and caught hold of it too. She was indignant and cried, "Let go-it's my onion," and as soon as she said, "my onion," the stalk broke and she fell back into the flames.

  E. M. Forster

  Letting Go, Angel, Flames

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• Care clings to wealth: the thirst for more Grows as our fortunes grow.

  Horace

  Care, Wealth, Fortune

  Horace (1936). “Complete Works”

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• There is no vice which mankind carries to such wild extremes as that of avarice.

  Jonathan Swift

  Vices, Extremes, Humankind

  "The Works. Containing Interesting and Valuable Papers, Not Hitherto Published. With Memoir of the Author, by Thomas Roscoe".

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• It's been fascinating over the last few years, watching the high and mighty in business and politics fall precipitously-not because their plans didn't work, but because their character flaws undercut those plans. Whether the microphone caught them making racist comments or their greed overcame their common sense, who they were as people made all the difference-more than their résumés, their degrees, or even their past successes. If you fail at the art of being human and staying human, you recklessly court disaster.

  Marianne Williamson

  Art, Fall, Character

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• The only way to the top is killing and greed. Okay, I'm kidding. But killing helps.

  Douglas Coupland

  Way, Helping, Killing

  "JPod". Book by Douglas Coupland, May 9, 2006.

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• I could not possibly count the gold-digging ruses of women, Not if I had ten mouths, not if I had ten tongues.

  Ovid

  Gold, Digging, Mouths

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• Our greed comes from our fear that we will not have enough - whether it is money or love that we grasp. Yoga teaches us to let go of these fears and so to realize the abundance around us and within us.

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Letting Go, Yoga, Realizing

  B.K.S. Iyengar (2006). “Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom”, p.93, Rodale

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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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