Greed Quotes - Page 9

• The powerful have no monopoly on greed, hatred, fear, or ignorance.

  Cornel West

  Powerful, Ignorance, Hatred

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• I think nonviolence and the mediation of conflict by means of respecting civility must be promoted. But being the kind of beings we [peoplep] are - wrestling with greed, and wrestling with fears and security, anxieties, wrestling with hatred that's shot through all of us - wars are here to stay.

  Cornel West

  War, Mean, Wrestling

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• The silence of the world could not rein back it's greed. Not any longer. Not when it had virtually won.

  Philip K. Dick

  Silence, World, Reins

  Philip K. Dick (2008). “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?”, p.20, Ballantine Books

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• Ambition is at the very core of success and extraordinary achievement. Unlike greed, it's a powerful, creative and constructive force.

  Jim Rohn

  Powerful, Ambition, Achievement

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• Liberation didn't solve anything. It just opened up the doors to greed. Some people mix up sex now as if they were eating or drinking like crazy.

  Jeanne Moreau

  Sex, Crazy, Drinking

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• Let me, if not by birth, have lands by wit;
  All with me's meet that I can fashion fit.

  William Shakespeare

  Fashion, Land, Politics

  William Shakespeare, Jonathan Bate, Eric Rasmussen (2009). “King Lear”, p.43, Palgrave Macmillan

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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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• In this world laws are written for the lofty aim of "the common good" and then acted out in life on the basis of the common greed.

  Saul Alinsky

  Law, World, Common

  Saul Alinsky (2010). “Rules for Radicals: A Pragmatic Primer for Realistic Radicals”, p.13, Vintage

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• It is amazing how many of the intelligentsia call it "greed" to want to keep what you have earned, but not greed to want to take away what somebody else has earned, and let politicians use it to buy votes.

  Thomas Sowell

  Use, Want, Vote

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• We associate the North Atlantic with cod. The motto of Newfoundland used to be 'In cod we trust.' It was a joke, but it was essentially true. But there is no cod anymore. And that's extraordinary. It's all because of either greed or politics - Canadian politics.

  Simon Winchester

  Motto, Used, Extraordinary

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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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• 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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• 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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• Foolish people are never harmless. Stupidity accounts for as many crimes as anger and greed.

  Louise Penny

  People, Stupidity, Foolish

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• Public opinion takes no offense at the endeavors of farmers, workers, clerks, teachers, doctors, ministers, and people from many other callings to earn as much as they can. But it censures the capitalists and entrepreneurs for their greed.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Teacher, Doctors, People

  Ludwig Von Mises, Murray Newton Rothbard (1980). “Planning for freedom, and sixteen other essays and addresses”, Libertarian Press, Incorporated

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• Liberals cling to the idea that critics of welfare are motivated by greed or callous disregard for the less fortunate. In fact, during the twenty-five years that followed Lyndon Johnson's declaration of war on poverty, U.S. tax payers spent $3 trillion providing every conceivable support for the poor, the elderly, and the infirm. Private foundations spent scores of billions more, and private and religious charities even more. Nevertheless, as Ronald Raegan later quipped, 'in the war on poverty, poverty won.'

  Mona Charen

  Religious, War, Elderly

  Mona Charen (2006). “Do-Gooders: How Liberals Hurt Those They Claim to Help and the Rest of Us”, Sentinel

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• Jesus warns people far more often about greed than about sex, yet almost no one thinks they are guilty of it.

  Timothy Keller

  Jesus, Sex, Thinking

  Timothy Keller (2009). “Counterfeit Gods: The Empty Promises of Money, Sex, and Power, and the Only Hope that Matters”, p.40, Penguin

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• The dull, purblind folly of the very rich men, their greed and arrogance, and the corruption in business and politics, have tended to produce a very unhealthy condition.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Men, Arrogance, Dull

  Theodore Roosevelt (1952). “The big stick, 1905-1907”

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• Unrestrained greed means the ruin of the great woods and the drying up of the sources of the rivers.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Mean, Rivers, Woods

  Theodore Roosevelt (1899). “The Rough Riders: An Autobiography”, p.568, Library of America

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• The Internet is light at the end of the tunnel. I don't care if it's being used to peddle pornography, I don't care if it's being trivialized in a thousand ways. Anything can be trivialized. The important point is that it is leveling the playing field of global society. It is creating de-facto an entirely new set of political realities. None of the constipated, oligarchic structures that are resisting this were ever asked. Their greed betrayed them into investing in this in the first place without ever fully grasping what the implications of it were for their larger agenda.

  Terence McKenna

  Reality, Tunnels, Light

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• Aren't you tired of these career politicians on the left side of the aisle moralizing about the greed of the 'wealthy' when these same politicians habitually buy votes with borrowed dollars? Who are they to lecture those who actually produce and contribute to the economy?

  David Limbaugh

  Tired, Careers, Dollars

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