Greed Quotes - Page 18

• With Napster and the sharing of music, of course, there are going to be people who exploit it. Greed has no end. But there's a lot of good that could happen. We shouldn't let the economic concerns of the major labels infringe on our freedom to share music.

  Ian MacKaye

  People, Labels, Napster

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• Nothing destroys one's respect in the hearts of others more than greed.

  Muhammad Taqi Usmani

  Heart

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• Work should never make me weary If I'm really meant to do it, But it soon becomes exhausting If it's greed that drives me to it.

  Rebecca McCann

  Work, Should, Weary

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• When you cast away all your greed and fixation in adversity, you can find unexpected strength.

  Momofuku Ando

  Adversity, Unexpected, Cast Away

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• We are rich only through what we give.

  Sophie Swetchine

  Giving, Rich

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• Love of the simple is all that I need, I've no time for schism or lovers of greed.

  Van Morrison

  Philosophy, Simple, Needs

  Song: I'm Tired Joey Boy, Album: Avalon Sunset

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• In the race for money some men may come first, but man comes last.

  Marya Mannes

  Men, Race, May

  Marya Mannes (1964). “But Will it Sell?”

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• The ignorant mind, with its infinite afflictions, passions, and evils, is rooted in the three poisons. Greed, anger, and delusion.

  Bodhidharma

  Anger, Passion, Ignorant Masses

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• The principal hindrance to the advancement of the kingdom of God is greed. It is the chief obstacle to heaven-sent revival. It seems that when the back of greed is broken, the human spirit soars into regions of unselfishness. I believe that it is safe to say there can be no continuous revival without 'hilarious' giving. And I fear no contradiction: wherever there is 'hilarious' giving there will soon be revival!

  O. S. Hawkins

  Believe, Heaven Sent, Giving

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• America's not just [about] looking out for yourself, it's not just about greed, it's not just about trying to climb to the very top and keep everybody else down. ... Hard work, that's a value. Looking out for one another, that's a value. The idea that we're all in it together and [that] I'm my brother's keeper and [my] sister's keeper, that's a value.

  Barack Obama

  Brother, Hard Work, America

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• They who in folly or mere greed
  Enslaved religion, markets, laws,
  Borrow our language now and bid
  Us to speak up in freedom's cause.

  Cecil Day-Lewis

  Law, Poetry, Causes

  Cecil Day Lewis (1992). “The Complete Poems of C. Day Lewis”, p.335, Stanford University Press

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• There is a very fine line between love and nausea.

  James Earl Jones

  Nausea, Lines, Fifty Shades

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• This is Wall Street, and today is important. Because tomorrow, July 4th, I intended to make my first million dollars--an excitingday in a man's life. The enterprise was slightly illegal.

  Abraham Polonsky

  Money, Wall, 4th Of July

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• ... not doing what we love in the name of greed is very poor management of our lives.

  Warren Buffett

  Life, Investment Success, Names

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• There are three all-powerful evils: lust, anger and greed.

  Tulsidas

  Powerful, Evil, Lust

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• The market is a very emotional place that appeals to fear and greed.

  Walter Schloss

  Emotional, Investing, Appeals

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• The bourgeoisie is very fond of so-called practical types and novels with happy endings, since they soothe it with the idea that one can both accumulate capital and preserve innocence, be a beast and at the same time be happy...

  Anton Chekhov

  Happiness, Thinking, Bourgeoisie

  "Letters of Anton Chekhov to His Family and Friends: With Biographical Sketch". Book by Anton Chekhov, 1920.

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• When a doctor refuses money, even the most ethical ones, you usually start driving a good bargain with the undertaker.

  Sue Sanders

  Doctors, Dying, Physicians

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• People's lives are filled with vice and the trappings of it. Ambition, greed and selfishness all have to do with vice. Sooner or later, you have to see through it or you don't survive.

  Bob Dylan

  Ambition, People, Selfishness

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• The discovery of America was the occasion of the greatest outburst of cruelty and reckless greed known in history.

  Joseph Conrad

  Discovery, America, Reckless

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• The best way to hate is the worst.
  'Tis to find what the hated need,
  Never mind of what actual worth,
  And wipe that out of the earth.
  Let them die of unsatisfied greed.

  Robert Frost

  Hate, Mind, Needs

  Robert Frost (1936). “A Further Range”

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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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• 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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• In the 24th century there will be no hunger, there will be no greed, and all the children will know how to read.

  Gene Roddenberry

  Children, Hunger, Century

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• If they survive, today's children will inherit a world that our fathers and grandfathers have ravaged, where the seas are acidic cesspools that the whales have fled, where rain forests are Indian memories never to return, and where human greed has plundered Mother Earth's innards and turned human genes into factories for profit. They will inherit a diminished planet where fresh water is increasingly rare, and where fresh air is a commodity... We live in a world that fears and hates its young. How else can one explain the bequest of such a foul, polluted, and hollow inheritance?

  Mumia Abu-Jamal

  Mother, Children, Memories

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