Greed Quotes - Page 8

• There was a time in my life when I thought I had everything - millions of dollars, mansions, cars, nice clothes, beautiful women, and every other materialistic thing you can imagine. Now I struggle for peace.

  Richard Pryor

  Beautiful, Nice, Struggle

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• Our world has grown weary of greed, exploitation and division, of the tedium of false idols and piecemeal responses, and the pain of false promises.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Pain, Our World, Idols

  Pope Benedict XVI (2014). “The Garden of God”, p.26, CUA Press

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• Some men change their party for the sake of their principles; others their principles for the sake of their party

  Winston Churchill

  Leadership, Witty, Party

  Winston Churchill (2001). “The Wicked Wit of Winston Churchill”, Michael O'Mara Books

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• "The ultimate recession": a recession caused not by failed regulation and bankers' greed, but by very high oil prices, food and water shortages, disappearing forests, accelerating climate change, forced migration and mass civil disruption...The long and the short of it, unfortunately, is this: more politicians still believe that economic recovery depends on continuing to live beyond our means (financially and ecologically) than on learning to live within our means. And that's why the ultimate "Perfect Storm" recession still looms on the horizon

  Jonathon Porritt

  Business, Believe, Recovery

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• Our problem mostly in our abuse of each other and the planet is greed. Just the rampant, incredible greed that people have partly because they're empty and they can't get enough because they're - you know, it's that Buddhist thing about the hungry ghost with the little mouth and the big belly.

  Alice Walker

  Buddhist, People, Abuse

  Source: alicewalkersgarden.com

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• ...so much attention is paid to the aggressive sins, such as violence and cruelty, and greed with all their tragic effects, that too little attention is paid to the passive sins, such as apathy and laziness, which in the long run can have a more devastating and destructive effect upon society than the others.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Running, Long, Apathy

  Eleanor Roosevelt (1960). “You Learn by Living”, p.153, Westminster John Knox Press

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• We are identified with the ego, and with the ego there are many things: anger and hatred and jealousy and possessiveness and greed - the whole train. The ego functions like an engine and there are many many compartments following it. Once the ego dies the whole train stops.

  Rajneesh

  Jealousy, Hatred, Ego

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• What thrust us into war were not Hitler's political teachings: the cause, this time, was his successful attempt to establish a new economy. The causes of the war were: envy, greed, and fear.

  J. F. C. Fuller

  War, Teaching, Successful

  "The Second World War, 1939-1945: a strategical and tactical history". Book by J. F. C. Fuller, 1948.

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• When there is firm conquest over covetousness, they who have conquered it wake up to the how and why of life.

  Patanjali

  Money, Wake Up, Investing

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• It's all about greed and money and it's the driving force in Hollywood.

  Robert Redford

  Hollywood, Driving, Force

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• Change that does not lead to liberation from fear, greed and delusion is not wholesome.  Furthermore, any change that does not yield more compassion and loving-kindness for yourself and others is a waste of precious life energy.

  Phillip Moffitt

  Kindness, Compassion, Yield

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• How to forgive a murderer? First, by differentiating his sufferings from his exploitation of death to ease them. For his sufferings - greed, jealousy, frustration - he will need reeducation, support and, compassion. For our outrage about murder, we need to examine deeply our faith in death. As long as we collectively believe that death has power over life, we will spawn deluded, self-appointed little gods who want that power.

  D. Patrick Miller

  Believe, Frustration, Compassion

  D. Patrick Miller (2009). “The Way of Forgiveness: Letting Go, Easing Stress, and Building Strength”, p.30, Fearless Books

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• These are roots of all evil, hatred and greed, for money, for the construction and for the sale of weapons. This should make us all think, who is behind it all?

  Pope Francis

  Thinking, Roots, Evil

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• Many people and companies only have one goal: money, money, and more money. Greed is ok when you let others profit from it, but greed for oneself is bad, it makes you ill.

  Dalai Lama

  People, Goal, Profit

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• There is nothing wrong with being well off as long as money has a social and ethical value and is not the object of one's own greed.

  Aga Khan IV

  Long, Ethical, Social

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• The agrarian crisis [in India] is an unnecessary tragedy, resulting directly from an economics of greed and a politics driven by the economies of greed.

  Vandana Shiva

  Tragedy, India, Unnecessary

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• Original sin, the true original sin, is the blind destruction for the sake of greed of this natural paradise which lies all around us-if only we were worthy of it.

  Edward Abbey

  Lying, Paradise, Sake

  Edward Abbey (1968). “Desert Solitaire”, p.167, Simon and Schuster

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• We found out that you can't pass on acquired things like bigotry, prejudice, greed. That's all learned in your culture or your sub-culture

  Jacque Fresco

  Prejudice, Culture, Found

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• There is enough for the need of everyone in this world, but not for the greed of everyone.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Needs, World, Enough

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• Gordon Gekko was right: greed is good. Because, the potty-trained Republicans have now stepped forward - like the Koch brothers - to say, 'You know what? You yokels stop talking about defaulting on the debt, because I'm going to lose a fortune!'

  Bill Maher

  Brother, Talking, Debt

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• In the 1980s and 1990s, Jack Welch, the CEO of General Electric, laid off over 100,000 employees. His reward? When he retired from GE, he received a golden parachute of over $400 million dollars. This is the kind of corporate greed and irresponsibility that is destroying the middle class and must be ended.

  Bernie Sanders

  Class, Rewards, Golden

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• The first thing, the very very first thing, "Find out what your greatest characteristic is, your greatest undoing, your central characteristic of unconsciousness." Each one's is different. Somebody is sex-obsessed. In a country like India, where for centuries sex has been repressed, that has become almost a universal characteristic; everybody is obsessed with sex. Somebody is obsessed with anger, and somebody else is obsessed with greed. You have to watch which is your basic obsession.

  G. I. Gurdjieff

  Country, Sex, India

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• Pride is the king of vices...it is the first of the pallbearers of the soul...other vices destroy only their opposite virtues, as wantonness destroys chastity; greed destroys temperance; anger destroys gentleness; but pride destroys all virtues.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Kings, Pride, Opposites

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• I would that the healing power of Christ might spread over the earth and be diffused through our society and into our homes, that it might cure men's hearts of the evil and adverse elements of greed and hate and conflict. I believe it could happen. I believe it must happen. If the lamb is to lie down with the lion, then peace must overcome conflict, healing must mend injury.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Hate, Lying, Believe

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• As the nation at last confronts global warming, it is no time for denial, greed, cynicism or pessimism.

  Bernie Sanders

  Denial, Lasts, Global Warming

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