Greed Quotes - Page 38

• He doesn't have super powers or the biggest, baddest gun. The point isn't how many people you can kill or how you kill them. He is there to fight piracy, greed, and cruelty in all their forms on land and sea

  Billy Zane

  Fighting, Gun, Sea

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• The ultimate consequences of the individualist spirit in economic life are those which you yourselves, Venerable Brethren and Beloved Children, see and deplore: Free competition has destroyed itself; economic dictatorship has supplanted the free market; unbridled ambition for power has likewise succeeded greed for gain; all economic life has become tragically hard, inexorable, and cruel.

  Pope Pius XI

  Children, Ambition, Competition

  Catholic Church. Pope (1922-1939 : Pius XI), Pope Pius XI (1947). “On reconstructing the social order: (Quadragesimo anno)”

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• Our Twentieth Century has proved to be more cruel than preceding centuries, and the first fifty years have not erased all its horrors. Our world is rent asunder by those same old cave-age emotions of greed, envy, lack of control, mutual hostility which have picked up in passing respectable pseudonyms like class struggle, radical conflict, struggle of the masses, trade-union disputes.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Struggle, Class, Our World

  Alexandr Solzhenitsyn's Nobel lecture in literature delivered only to the Swedish Academy, www.nobelprize.org. 1970.

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• The reason the Christians have murdered on such a vast scale and killed anyone and everyone in their way is purely and simply greed.

  Bartolome de las Casas

  Christian, Atheism, Way

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• The role of government is to create responsible greed to keep boundaries around what people do.

  Rebecca M. Blank

  Government, People, Roles

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• You know who's also joining the Wall Street protesters? Kanye West. That's a real good idea -- a guy with diamonds in his teeth protesting greed.

  David Letterman

  Wall, Real, Ideas

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• As we are set free by that love from our own pride and fear, our own greed and arrogance, so we are free in our turn to be agents of reconciliation and hope, or healing and love.

  N. T. Wright

  Healing, Pride, Arrogance

  N. T. Wright (2014). “For All God's Worth: True Worship and the Calling of the Church”, p.56, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• If your desire for 'good' is based on greed, it is not good, but greed.

  Idries Shah

  Desire, Ifs

  Idries Shah (1978). “Learning how to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way”, p.91, Octagon Press Ltd

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• IF YOU WOULD BE FREE OF GREED, FIRST YOU HAVE TO LEAVE EGOTISM BEHIND.
  THE BEST MENTAL EXERCISE FOR RELINQUISHING EGOTISM IS CONTEMPLATING IMPERMANENCE.

  Dogen

  Exercise, Would Be, Firsts

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• I have lived in the pursuit of a vision, both personal and social. Personal: to care for what is noble, for what is beautiful, for what is gentle; to allow moments of insight to give wisdom at more mundane times. Social: to see in imagination the society that is to be created, where individuals grow freely, and where hate and greed and envy die because there is nothing to nourish them. These things I believe, and the world, for all its horrors, has left me unshaken.

  Bertrand Russell

  Beautiful, Hate, Believe

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “Bertrand Russell's Best”, p.125, Routledge

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• We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.

  Aesop

  Witty, Government, Political Will

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The possession of power over others is inherently destructive both to the possessor of the power and to those over whom it is exercised.

  George Davis Herron

  Government, Possession, Power Over Others

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• The enjoyment of power inevitably corrupts the judgment of reason, and perverts its liberty.

  Immanuel Kant

  Liberty, Judgment, Reason

  Immanuel Kant (1932). “Perpetual peace”

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• The covetous man is ever in want.

  Horace

  Men, Want

  Horace (1836). “The works of Horace: translated literally into English prose; for the use of those who are desirous of acquiring or recovering a competent knowledge of the Latin language”, p.235

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• It's a mystery to me;
  We have a greed, with which we have agreed.
  You think you have to want more than you need.
  Until you have it all, you won't be free.

  Eddie Vedder

  Thinking, Needs, Want

  Song: Society, 2007

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• The corporation cannot be ethical, its only responsibility is to make a profit.

  Jim Hightower

  Responsibility, Corporations, Ethical

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• Corporately contrived art product replaces inspired intellectual property with ineffectual poperty.

  Vanna Bonta

  Art, Intellectual, Inspired

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• God knows greed won't vanish. Neither will hatred or chauvanism. Human nature is a stubborn thing. But it isn't beyond control. Even if our core impulses can;t be banished, they can be tempered and redirected.

  Robert Wright

  Hatred, Stubborn, Human Nature

  Robert Wright (2001). “Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny”, p.315, Vintage

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• Technology, including Zaadz, will allow us to evade the jerks far more than we could before. The technology-based social responsibility movement, broadly construed, will allow us to return to some extent to the moral monitoring of small villages.

  Michael Strong

  Responsibility, Technology, Small Villages

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• It's a familiar truism that at any one moment, financial markets are dominated by either fear or greed. But the healthiest markets are those that are animated by both fear and greed at the same time.

  James Surowiecki

  Fear, Financial, Moments

  James Surowiecki (2005). “The Wisdom of Crowds”, p.241, Anchor

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• Greed for enlightenment and immortality is no different than greed for material wealth. It is self-centered and dualistic, and thus an obstacle to true attainment. Therefore these states are never achieved by those who covet them; rather, they are the reward of the virtuous.

  Laozi

  Self, Achievement, Enlightenment

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• There must appear a spiritual and moral leadership rising above economic and political situations. Governments in both their domestic and foreign policies appeal for popular support by promises of material gain. We cannot make peace by mere appeal to greed. We must give the peoples of the world something to live for as well as something to live on.

  John Haynes Holmes

  Leadership, Spiritual, Government

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• TARIFF, n. A scale of taxes on imports, designed to protect the domestic producer against the greed of his consumer.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Tariffs, Scales, Producers

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.217, 谷月社

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• It's impossible to translate Wall Street greed into one or two demands.

  Cornel West

  Wall, Two, Demand

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• Who covets more is evermore a slave.

  Robert Herrick

  Slave, Evermore, Covetousness

  Robert Herrick, Tom Cain, Ruth Connolly (2013). “The Complete Poetry of Robert Herrick”, p.202, Oxford University Press

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