Greedy Quotes - Page 11

• Commerce is greedy. Ideology is blood-thirsty.

  Mason Cooley

  Blood, Thirsty, Commerce

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• The sham engineers of the music industry, who steer the wheels of public opinion, are driving the good features of calypso into the ground. I shudder to think what these greedy men will eventually do to this true art form.

  Harry Belafonte

  Art, Men, Thinking

  New Musical Express Magazine, May 1957.

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• The division of the spoils between the victors will also provide employment for a powerful office, whose doorsteps the greedy adventurers and jealous concession hunters of twenty or thirty nations will crowd and defile.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Powerful, Jealous, Office

  John Maynard Keynes (1929). “The Economic Consequences of the Peace: The classic text on the Treaty of Versailles and post war Europe”, p.47, Harriman House Limited

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• Only a cheap politician, greedy for political gain, would try to single out one individual for blame. The fault lies not with the individual but with the system, and that system is Richard Nixon.

  Pat Paulsen

  Lying, Political, Trying

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• I believe that all of us have gangster proclivities and greedy orientations that need accountability. That's why democracies are necessary. We have to have institutions to try to curtail the use of arbitrary power so that our greedy orientations and gangster-like proclivities don't get out of hand.

  Cornel West

  Believe, Hands, Accountability

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Poor people can be greedy, too. It's just that they don't have any material resources. We need shaping of the souls as well as shaping of our institutions.

  Cornel West

  People, Soul, Needs

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Pleasure, like a kind of bait, is thrown before everything which is really bad, and easily allures greedy souls to the hook of perdition.

  Epictetus

  Soul, Bait, Hook

  Epictetus (1890). “The Discourses of Epictetus: With the Encheiridion and Fragments”

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• The Victorians have been immoderately praised, and immoderately blamed, and surely it is time we formed some reasonable picture of them? There was their courageous, intellectually adventurous side, their greedy and inhuman side, their superbly poetic side, their morally pretentious side, their tea and buttered toast side, and their champagne and Skittles side. Much like ourselves, in fact, though rather dirtier.

  Robertson Davies

  Tea, Facts, Sides

  "The Girl with the Swansdown Seat/Abode of Love/1848". 1956.

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• As for the Republicans -- how can one regard seriously a frightened, greedy, nostalgic huddle of tradesmen and lucky idlers who shut their eyes to history and science, [and] steel their emotions against decent human sympathy.

  H. P. Lovecraft

  Eye, Idlers, Lucky

  Letter to C.L. Moore (August 1936), quoted in "H.P. Lovecraft, a Life" by S.T. Joshi, p. 574,

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• The truly greedy, it seems to me, are those who think they've a right to live well at the expense of others.

  Jack Kelly

  Thinking, Live Well, Expenses

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• Do not accept principal risk while investing short-term cash: the greedy effort to earn a few extra basis points of yield inevitably leads to the incurrence of greater risk, which increases the likelihood of losses and severe illiquidity at precisely the moment when cash is needed to cover expenses, to meet commitments, or to make compelling long-term investments.

  Seth Klarman

  Commitment, Loss, Yield

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• Be fearful when the markets get greedy, be greedy when the markets get fearful.

  Warren Buffett

  Fearful

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• You will have to look a long way before you find a bunch of scum-suckers more greedy, humourless and deserving of death than the suits in the music business.

  Terry Pratchett

  Long, Looks, Scum

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• I'm a greedy old man. Life's been good to me, and I want some more of it.

  John Wayne

  Men, Want, Old Man

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• I eat too much. I drink to much. A greedy selfish such-n-such. But when I wrap my turban on my mind is clear, I'm 'Baba Lon'.

  Lon Milo DuQuette

  Selfish, Mind, Too Much

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• Skeletons of mice are often to be found in coconuts, for it is easier to get in, slim and greedy, than to get out, appeased but fat.

  Viktor Korchnoi

  Skeletons, Coconuts, Chess

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• It is not that people are evil or greedy. The conditions that socially support the system force us to behave in socially offensive ways.

  Jacque Fresco

  People, Evil, Support

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• We in the west are seen as godless, as greedy and as uncaring about the suffering of those in the developing world.

  Silvia Cartwright

  Suffering, World, West

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• There are people who are very greedy, there are people who don't care. But in my opinion, that is a minority. The majority of the people on the face of this earth want peace, and if this is true, then peace on earth is a very achievable objective. People say it's not going to happen. Well, let this time belong to those who believe it can happen, not to the ones who say it cannot.

  Prem Rawat

  Believe, People, Majority

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• I'm greedy; I'd like to keep most of it for myself and a few others, a few of my friends . . . to keep that superlative high, just on the cusp of each day . . . so that I'd radiate sunshine.

  Edie Sedgwick

  Sunshine, Each Day, Superlatives

  "Edie : American Girl". Book by Jean Stein and George Plimpton, 1982.

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• Love is the most practical thing in the world. To love, to be kind, not to be greedy, not to be ambitious, not to be influenced by people but to think for yourself-these are all very practical things, and they will bring about a practical, happy society.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Spiritual, Love Is, Thinking

  Jiddu Krishnamurti (1992). “This Matter of Culture”

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• We should have no more use or regard for money in any of its forms than we have for dust. Those who think it is worth more, or who are greedy for it, expose themselves to the danger of being deceived by the Devil.

  Francis of Assisi

  Thinking, Dust, Should Have

  Saint Francis (of Assisi) (1964). “Writings”

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• These symbolize (Proverbs 30:14) the greedy and usurers whose teeth are swords and knifes which they use to devour the poor and steal their megger possessions. All of them are children of this world who consider the children of light to be stupid and believe themselves to be the prudent ones. Their prudence is their death.

  Anthony of Padua

  Children, Stupid, Believe

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• The evil that men do lives on the front pages of greedy newspapers, but the good is oft interred apathetically inside.

  Brooks Atkinson

  Life, Men, Evil

  Brooks Atkinson (1951). “Once around the sun”

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• Greed is supported by an endless cast of what-ifs. Greedy people can never have enough to satisfy the need they feel in light of every conceivable eventuality.

  Andy Stanley

  Light, People, Greed

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