Greed Quotes - Page 12

• Adam Smith saw the greed of modern capitalism for what it was - a form of destructive ambition that may have favorable effects on the productive capacities of society, but which is of no direct benefit to anyone - not even to the greedy themselves, whose illusory chase after a will-o-the-wisp leaves them morally bankrupt and unhappy.

  Allen W. Wood

  Ambition, Unhappy, Benefits

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• What are we to think of the shortsightedness of the great mass of people who are content to do nothing about it, and even worse, the greed or venality of the rich and powerful who deliberately bar the way to human survival?

  Allen W. Wood

  Powerful, Thinking, People

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• It is a cause of shame to any member of the human race to be a member of the same species some of whose members could vote for any candidate for president that has been offered by the Republican party. Such people seem to be motivated only by short-sighted greed, ignorance, fear and hatred.

  Allen W. Wood

  Party, Ignorance, Race

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• When it comes to climate change it's all the usual barriers: greed, mendacity, ignorance, short-sightedness and so on, manifest in the extreme power of corporations, the weakness of government, and the indifference of citizens.

  Dale Jamieson

  Ignorance, Government, Corporations

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• The white worker who has been displaced at General Motors has more in common with the displaced black worker than those larger white CEO's, and those Wall Street people who are determining their fate... whose thievery and greed is determining their fate.

  Bell Hooks

  Wall, Fate, White

  Source: nefac.net

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• Mercy Watson is obsessed with toast. What was blocking me was the challenge of trying to understand what she loves, what motivates her. That was the missing piece. Toast became the physical symbol of Mercy's hopefully endearing greed and obsession. Without that element in place, it didn't make sense.

  Kate DiCamillo

  Block, Missing, Challenges

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• Patriarchy is connected to greed, a symptom of a larger force that can only be dispelled through kindness and love. It's basic Buddhism.

  Peter Buffett

  Kindness, Buddhism, And Love

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• We've got to temper anything we say with that. On the other hand, you've got to be serious about what you do. And you've got to understand the price you pay for frivolity or just for greed - it's a very high price, especially if you're involved in this sacred material, which is about the human heart and human desire and human tragedy.

  Leonard Cohen

  Heart, Hands, Tragedy

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Left to my own devices, in the face of the climate change deniers, the madness and the greed-based decision-making, and propaganda that's been floating around, it's hard not to become pessimistic.

  Trent Reznor

  Decision, Climate, Floating

  Source: www.spin.com

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• The world is fed by greed.

  Dick Gregory

  World, Feds

  "Comedian Dick Gregory says the hot-button issues of the '60s haven't cooled down". NewsOK Interview, newsok.com. April 16, 2015.

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• Lyndon Johnson believed the poor deserved a better life than the economy was providing them. He thought private power and greed had to be checked by a vibrant democracy.

  Bill Moyers

  Democracy, Economy, Poor

  Source: progressive.org

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• However, I have a lot of greed. The types of music I want to show are on this side and on that side. Conclusively, if I'm able to make good music and people continue to look for my music, won't this kind of controversy get better... is my thought.

  Kim Nam-joon

  People, Get Better, Looks

  Source: kpopkfans.blogspot.com

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• For Democrats to win, they're going to have to address the needs of working people. They're going to have to address the needs of the middle class. And that means standing up to Wall Street, standing up to the greed of corporate America. Even now and then, standing up to the media. And that means having a candidate who can excite working families, excite young people, bring them into the political process, create a large voter turnout.

  Bernie Sanders

  Wall, Mean, Winning

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• [Donald Trump] has nothing to show for it but fear in every way. To people who are sick, fear, to people who are immigrants, fear, to people who are concerned about the greed on Wall Street taking us back to where we were.

  Nancy Pelosi

  Wall, People, Sick

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• Greed in human nature may now come near to enslaving all humanity by means of the Machine - so fast and far has progress gone with it. This will be evident to anyone who stops to study the modern mechanistic Moloch and takes time to view it in its larger aspects.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Mean, Views, Humanity

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• I don't know what America has really learned. We are too quick to do what's expedient on behalf of our culture of greed and hedonism. We're quite prepared to go to conditions of tyranny in order to sustain that culture, and we do it in the name of democracy, when nothing could be more undemocratic. We do it in the name of saving the values of our society, when the way we behave corrupts those values. We do it in the name of God in whom we believe, when in fact we have corrupted our own vision of the Christian journey.

  Harry Belafonte

  Christian, Believe, Journey

  Source: www.yesmagazine.org

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• I love jazz because it's so American; you know it's our Only Original Art Form. It just goes against the greed of corporate America and the Wall Street Banks that are destroying our economy.

  Bernie Sanders

  Art, Wall, America

  Source: www.goodreads.com

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• I've been working in Hollywood for a long time now in many different aspects in front of the camera, behind the camera, and I've worked with top executives, presidents of networks. I've worked all around. I see energy and what's around these studios and a lot of these offices. You don't get the high positions in these companies if you don't take advantage of other people in some way. I've seen that around. I've seen that around the studios, whether it's producers or whoever. Egos are there. Greed.

  James Van Praagh

  Long, People, Office

  Source: www.cyinterview.com

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• I love fashion and beauty and all those things, I still do but I think that it has changed the shift, that the greed is ruling the planet right now.

  David LaChapelle

  Fashion, Thinking, Planets

  Source: www.kaltblut-magazine.com

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• The matriarchal society 1300 years ago in Egypt was a peaceful society; that's where you had no war for thousands of years! When they switched to patriarchal society, when the male energy ruled, we became obsessed with the greed. Now we are in this time of intense greed!

  David LaChapelle

  War, Egypt, Years

  Source: www.kaltblut-magazine.com

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• The fact is, most people are not going to be rich someday. And we've had a concerted policy of taking money away from the poor and giving it to the rich wholesale, and at the same time, we have the runaway corporations, and the greed.

  Roger Ebert

  People, Giving, Corporations

  Source: progressive.org

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• There are parallels between the 1960s and now, because during the 1960s, people were being slaughtered, their lives were being taken, there was violence, greed, drugs were rising - just all of this. And my uncle was saying, you've got to come back to faith, hope and love. Now, you get the translation and say faith, hope and charity - faith, hope and love.

  Alveda King

  Uncles, Taken, People

  Source: saynsumthn.wordpress.com

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• America has gone crazy with greed. I really have to say that.

  Alveda King

  Crazy, America, Gone

  Source: saynsumthn.wordpress.com

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• Pray daily to be used by God, sacrifice personal needs and so greed has to go out of the window. Because you have to believe God can take care of you so you don't have to worry about that.

  Alveda King

  Believe, Sacrifice, Worry

  Source: saynsumthn.wordpress.com

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• I think the Buddhist ethic is clearer and more systematic in some ways. The Buddhist notion is that our chief problems are greed, hatred and delusion. Well, delusion is not much mentioned in the Christian tradition. In the West, we have underplayed the idea that our moral and spiritual troubles have to do with a lack of clarity or insight because original sin has dominated so much of our thinking. We tend to think that our troubles are caused by insufficient will power.

  Ninian Smart

  Christian, Spiritual, Buddhist

  Source: www.scottlondon.com

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