Greed Quotes - Page 20

• Only those blinded by greed would refuse to let a friend make a copy.

  Aaron Swartz

  Copies, Refuse, Blinded

  Aaron Swartz (2016). “The Boy Who Could Change the World: The Writings of Aaron Swartz”, p.27, The New Press

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Today, as in the Gilded Age, we live in a world where a morality of personal responsibility rubs shoulders with a culture of greed and of flagrant social irresponsibility. Now as then, business has shed its collective responsibility for employees - just as government has for its citizens.

  Charles Derber

  Responsibility, Government, Age

  Charles Derber (2015). “Sociopathic Society: A People's Sociology of the United States”, p.107, Routledge

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• Most of us have become Ecozombies, desensitized, environmental deadheads. On average, society conditions us to spend over 95% of our time and 99.9% of our thinking disconnected from nature. Nature's extreme absence in our lives leaves us abandoned and wanting. We feel we never have enough. We greedily, destructively, consume and, can't stop. Nature's loss in our psyche produces a hurt, hungering, void within us that bullies us into our dilemmas.

  Michael J Cohen

  Hurt, Loss, Emotional

  Michael J. Cohen (2003). “The Web of Life Imperative: Regenerative Ecopsychology Techniques That Help People Think in Balance with Natural Systems”, p.83, Trafford Publishing

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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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• 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 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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• The notion that a society could be regulated entirely by market forces is a utopian fantasy: an impossible dream generated by imagining what the world would be like if everyone's behavior was utterly consistent with some abstract moral ideal-in this case, economic theories that assume all human action is based on calculating, systematic, (but scrupulously law-abiding), greed.

  David Graeber

  Dream, Law, Abiding

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• Once we were happy in our own country and we were seldom hungry, for then the two-leggeds and the four-leggeds lived together like relatives, and there was plenty for them and for us. But the Wasichus came, and they have made little islands for us and other little islands for the four-leggeds, and always these islands are becoming smaller, for around them surges the gnawing flood of the Wasichu; and it is dirty with lies and greed.

  Black Elk

  Country, Lying, Dirty

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• However destructive may be the policies of the government and the methods and products of the corporations, the root of the problem is always found to be found in private life. We must learn to see that every problem that concerns us as conservationists always leads straight to the question of how we live. The world is being destroyed, no doubt about it, by the greed of the rich and powerful. It is also being destroyed by popular demand.

  Wendell Berry

  Powerful, Government, Roots

  Wendell Berry (1993). “Sex, Economy, Freedom & Community: Eight Essays”, Pantheon

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• You have found that you were more secure before you accumulated so much. See what greed has imposed on you: You have filled your house and now you fear burglars. You have hoarded money and lost sleep. See what greed has commanded you: "Do this!" And you did it.

  Saint Augustine

  Sleep, House, Lost

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• It is not necessity but abundance which produces greed.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Abundance, Produce, Consumerism

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• It is partly to avoid consciousness of greed that we prefer to associate with those who are at least as greedy as we ourselves. Those who consume much less are a reproach.

  Charles Horton Cooley

  Consciousness, Consumerism, Overconsumption

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• Many Christians, though keenly sensitive to the dangers of greed and discontent that come with an economy of continually increasing consumption, nevertheless feel that it is worth risking if only it can end man's physical miseries. The trouble is that it can't. In a finite world, continually increasing consumption is just not possible.

  Joy Davidman

  Christian, Men, World

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• The cause of all these evils was the lust for power arising from greed and ambition; and from these passions proceeded the violence of parties once engaged in contention.

  Thucydides

  Party, Passion, Ambition

  Thucydides, Victor Davis Hanson, Robert B. Strassler (2008). “The Landmark Thucydides”, p.200, Simon and Schuster

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• What is the opposite of abundance? It's not scarcity. It's greed. Greed is the belief that there is not enough for everyone, so you'd better grab yours now. What is the opposite of love? It's not hate. It's fear. Fear is the belief that someone or something can hurt you.

  Robert G. Allen

  Hurt, Hate, Opposites

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• The Enron scandal calls into question the integrity of the entire capitalist system, which previously we assumed was based on honest, straightforward greed.

  Joel Achenbach

  Integrity, Enron Scandal, Honest

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• I'm very much about the environment, I'm very much about health, about being able to, at the very least, eat organic, whole foods that are healthy for us. And then, of course, everyone being able to eat and at least have a humane way to live. There's enough for everybody, but unfortunately, there's a lot of greed and a lot of ego.

  Lenny Kravitz

  Humane Way, Ego, Healthy

  "Lenny Kravitz: Living and Loving Every Moment". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Since time immemorial and pre-industrial, 'greed' has been the accusation hurled at the rich by the concrete-bound illiterates who were unable to conceive of the source of wealth or of the motivation of those who produce it.

  Ayn Rand

  Motivation, Wealth, Rich

  Ayn Rand (1966). “Capitalism, the Unknown Ideal”, Signet Book

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• The law has been perverted through the influence of two very different causes-naked greed and misconceived philanthropy.

  Frederic Bastiat

  Law, Two, Different

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• There are sufficient resources on this planet to answer the needs of all, but not enough to satisfy everyone's greed.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Needs, Answers, Enough

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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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