Greed Quotes - Page 19

• We forget the nature of true power. The power within is abundance. The power without is greed.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  True Power, Forget, Abundance

  "Exclusive: Terry Tempest Williams On Sacred Rage, Abundance, and the Upcoming White House Tar Sands Pipeline Action". Interview with Jerry Cope, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 17, 2011.

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• Avoid greed and fear. These are the investor's Achilles heels. Keeping all your money in the bank earning 3% interest is just as foolish as dumping your entire savings into the market thinking you'll make a quick buck.

  Nancy Dunnan

  Thinking, Bucks, Earning

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• Keep your hands clean and pure from the infamous vice of corruption, a vice so infamous that it degrades even the other vices thatmay accompany it. Accept no present whatever; let your character in that respect be transparent and without the least speck, for as avarice is the vilest and dirtiest vice in private, corruption is so in public life.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Character, Hands, Vices

  Lord Chesterfield (1998). “Lord Chesterfield's Letters”, p.418, OUP Oxford

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• Avarice is the vice of declining years.

  George Bancroft

  Years, Vices, Avarice

  George Bancroft (1845). “History of the United States: From the Discovery of the American Continent, to the End of the Late War”, p.130

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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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• One of the most dangerously vicious circles menacing the continued existence of all mankind arises through that grim striving for the highest possible position within the ranked order, in other words, the reckless pursuit of power which combines with an insatiable greed of neurotic proportions that the results of acquired power confer.

  Konrad Lorenz

  Power, Order, Circles

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• For total greed, rapacity, heartlessness, and irresponsibility there is nothing to match a nation.

  Lewis Thomas

  Nations, Heartlessness, Irresponsibility

  Lewis Thomas (1990). “A Long Line of Cells Collected Essays”

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• In 'Tarahumara' land, there was no crime, war or theft. There was no corruption, obesity, drug addiction, greed, wife-beating, child abuse, heart disease, high blood pressure, or carbon emissions. They didn't get diabetes, or depressed, or even old: 50-year-olds outran teenagers.

  Christopher McDougall

  Children, War, Teenager

  Christopher McDougall (2010). “Born to Run: The hidden tribe, the ultra-runners, and the greatest race the world has never seen”, p.14, Profile Books

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• If we got one-tenth of what was promised to us in these acceptance speeches there wouldn't be any inducement to go to heaven.

  Will Rogers

  Acceptance, Keeping Promises, Political

  Will Rogers (1978). “Will Rogers' Daily Telegrams”

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• Avarice is generally the last passion of those lives of which the first part has been squandered in pleasure, and the second devoted to ambition. He that sinks under the fatigue of getting wealth, lulls his age with the milder business of saving it

  Samuel Johnson

  Wall, Passion, Ambition

  Samuel Johnson, Elizabeth Carter, Samuel Richardson, Catherine Talbot (1825). “The Rambler: A Periodical Paper, Published in 1750, 1751, 1752”, p.262

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• In the past, traditional art was based on making manifest what is enduring in man, like love, jealousy, hatred, envy, and greed... . Today art has to look again at these unchanging qualities, because society is no longer unchanging. It is up to art today to show us what has become of these unchanging qualities in a world which is moving and changing.

  Tawfiq al-Hakim

  Art, Moving, Past

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• How could sufferings be relieved through purification? To know the Path is to get lost at the ford. Indeed, sickness comes from worldly love And poverty begins with the pursuit of greed.

  Wang Wei

  Buddhism, Suffering, Path

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• The beauty was in the waking of the powerless. Is it always to be true that it is impossible to have things strong and at the same time beautiful? The famished men need not stay famished. But to gorge themselves in this heartbreaking way consuming, utterly destroying the common promise of their greed, was that ever necessary?

  Ayi Kwei Armah

  Beautiful, Strong, Men

  Ayi Kwei Armah (1988). “The Beautyful Ones are Not Yet Born”, p.85, Heinemann

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• Nothing in the world is so incontinent as a man's accursed appetite.

  Homer

  Men, World, Appetite

  Homer (1983). “The Odyssey”, Outlet

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• Human beings are very complex creatures. This desire, this greed, this love is very complex.

  Yash Chopra

  Love Is, Desire, Humans

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• This America has been the country of greed rather than the country of need.

  Ariel Dorfman

  Country, America, Needs

  "Novelist-playwright Ariel Dorfman". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. November 1, 2011.

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• The first line in the first Gasland is: “I’m not a pessimist. I’ve always had a great deal of faith in people that we won’t succumb to frenzy or rage or greed. That we’ll figure out a solution without destroying the things that we love.” I have not lost that sense.

  Josh Fox

  People, Lines, Firsts

  "“Gasland Part II”: The Fracking Empire Strikes Back". Interview with Brett Brownell, www.motherjones.com. July 8, 2013.

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• I can see the greed and envy in your eyes.

  Nelly

  Eye, Reality, Envy

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• Elevation of today's generation, if I can make them listen. Prisons ain't what we need, no longer stuck in greed.

  Tupac Shakur

  Inspirational, Generations, Today's Generation

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• If there was a university degree for greed, you cunts would all get first-class honours.

  Paul Keating

  University Degrees, Class, Political

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• Sail on, sail on, o' might Ship of State. To the shores of need, past the reefs of greed, through the squalls of hate. Sail on, sail on, sail on.

  Leonard Cohen

  Hate, Past, Needs

  Leonard Cohen (2008). “The Lyrics of Leonard Cohen: Enhanced Edition”, p.66, Omnibus Press

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• We need to move beyond the demonisation of overpaid traders ... In finance and economics, ill-designed policy is a more powerful force for harm than individual greed or error.

  Adair Turner, Baron Turner of Ecchinswell

  Powerful, Business, Moving

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• Market values are fixed only in part by balance sheets and income statements; much more by the hopes and fears of humanity; by greed, ambition, acts of God, invention, financial stress and strain, weather, discovery, fashion and numberless other causes impossible to be listed without omission.

  Gerald M. Loeb

  Fashion, Business, Stress

  Gerald M. Loeb (2007). “Battle for Investment Survival”, p.2, John Wiley & Sons

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• God is in heaven, and we all want what's his. But power and greed and corruptible seed seem to be all that there is.

  Bob Dylan

  Religious, Heaven, Religion

  Song: Blind Willie McTell

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• Obviously you have to make a profit to put out a newspaper. I'm not an idiot. But when the margins are in excess of 25 per cent you're talking about greed.

  Carl Hiaasen

  Talking, Excess, Idiot

  "He's all the rage" by Euan Ferguson, www.theguardian.com. March 17, 2002.

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