Corporate Greed Quotes

• Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Nature

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• Greed, for lack of a better word, is good.

  Michael Douglas

  Movie, Great Year, Greed

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  Let us wage a moral and political war against the billionaires and corporate leaders, on Wall Street and elsewhere, whose policies and greed are destroying the middle class of America.

  Bernie Sanders

  Wall, War, America

  FaceBook post by U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders from Jun 10, 2012

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• One step closer to the end of the world. The one-two combo of corporate greed and organised religion apparently proved to be too much for reason, sanity and compassion.

  Trent Reznor

  Compassion, Two, Greed

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• Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works. Greed clarifies and cuts through to the essence of the evolutionary spirit.

  Michael Douglas

  Money, Cutting, Essence

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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, Greed, Rewards

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• Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right, greed works.

  Oliver Stone

  Movie, Great Year, Greed

  "Wall Street". www.imdb.com. 1987.

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• It is greed to do all the talking but not to want to listen at all.

  Democritus

  Inspirational, Communication, Talking

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• It's time for the wealthy to pay their fair share before the middle class becomes the forgotten class.- And it's time for the banks to give back what they were given. There are those in politics, particularly those on the conservative side, who can't get enough of telling people that the wealthy one per cent must not be taxed because doing so kills jobs. The real job-killers are corporate greed and political expediency. It's time for working people in Maine and all across the country to take back the American dream.

  Stephen King

  Dream, Country, Jobs

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• I think it's a shame when the arts have to suffer because of corporate greed. People will always strive to make film, and the only important thing is that we keep trying to make ourselves heard and keep making our films, no matter what the climate is.

  Paddy Considine

  Art, Thinking, People

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• I feel terrible about corporate greed. Growing up in a household that was a little more humble and didn't put so much emphasis on money and material goods, I think I have a pretty good head on my shoulders.

  Chloe Sevigny

  Growing Up, Humble, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Corporate greed is killing America, and that's what we battling at Boeing.

  Bill Johnson

  America, Greed, Boeing

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• We want to bear witness today that we know the relation between corporate greed and what goes on too often in the Supreme Court decisions.

  Cornel West

  Greed, Decision, Goes On

  "Cornel West, A Fighter, Angers Obama Supporters". "All Things Considered" with Melissa Block, Michele Norris, www.npr.org. October 24, 2011.

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• Occupy Wall Street means making Wall Street and the corporate power elite understand that the people affected by the binge of unregulated greed are not going away, and they are not going to give up.

  Dana Spiotta

  Giving Up, Wall, Mean

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• I vote far-left. I am frequently angered by corporate greed and think education ought to be free and teachers paid well.

  Eleanor Catton

  Teacher, Thinking, Greed

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• We may feel bitterly how little our poems can do in the face of seemingly out-of-control technological power and seemingly limitless corporate greed, yet it has always been true that poetry can break isolation, show us to ourselves when we are outlawed or made invisible, remind us of beauty where no beauty seems possible, remind us of kinship where all is represented as separation.

  Adrienne Rich

  Greed, May, Littles

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