Greed Quotes - Page 16

• The music industry's actions at the time of 9/11 and since have been actions driven by patriotism in most instances, and greed and stupidity to a lesser degree. Sounds like real life doesn't it?

  Ronnie James Dio

  Real, Stupidity, Patriotism

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The practice of gratitude is incompatible with negative emotions and may actually diminish or deter such feelings as anger, bitterness, and greed.

  Sonja Lyubomirsky

  Gratitude, Practice, Feelings

  Sonja Lyubomirsky (2007). “The How of Happiness: A New Approach to Getting the Life You Want”, p.85, Penguin

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• There are sufficient resources in the world for the needs of everybody, but not enough for the greed of even a significant minority.

  Millard Fuller

  Needs, Minorities, World

  Millard Fuller (1994). “The Theology of the Hammer”, p.38, Smyth & Helwys Publishing, Inc.

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• Avarice, greed, concupiscence and so forth are all based on the mathematical truism that the more you get, the more you have. The remark of that it is more blessed to give than to receive is based on the human truth that the more you give away in love, the more you are. It is not just for the sake of other people that tells us to give rather than get, but for our own sakes too.

  Frederick Buechner

  Blessed, People, Giving

  FaceBook post by Frederick Buechner from Mar 27, 2014

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• The law has been perverted, and the powers of the state have become perverted along with it. The law has not only been turned from its proper function, but made to follow an entirely contrary purpose. The law has become a tool for every kind of greed. Instead of preventing crime, the law itself is guilty of the abuses it is supposed to punish. If this is true, it is a serious matter, and moral duty requires me to call the attention of my fellow-citizens to it.

  Frederic Bastiat

  Law, Political, Abuse

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• The privileged have regularly invited their own destruction with their greed.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Investing, Destruction, Invited

  "The Age of Uncertainty". Book by John Kenneth Galbraith. Chapter 10, p. 293, 1977.

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• We're all basically made of the same stuff: generosity and selfishness, goodness and greed.

  Madeleine M. Kunin

  Generosity, Selfishness, Stuff

  "E Pluribus Unum or Social Darwinism?" by Madeleine M. Kunin, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 26, 2011.

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• If this earth should ever be destroyed, it will be by desire, by the lust of pleasure and self-gratification, by greed of the green frog skin, by people who are mindful of their own self, forgetting about the wants of others.

  John Fire Lame Deer

  Self, People, Lust

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• Ignorance, hatred and greed are killing nature.

  Masanobu Fukuoka

  Ignorance, Hatred, Killing

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• It’s not greed that drives the world, but envy.

  Charlie Munger

  Envy, World

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• Greed is good. Sex is easy. Youth is forever.

  Bret Easton Ellis

  Sex, Forever, Youth

  "The Informers". www.imdb.com. October, 2008.

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• The currency of real networking is not greed but generosity.

  Keith Ferrazzi

  Positive, Real, Generosity

  Keith Ferrazzi, Tahl Raz (2014). “Never Eat Alone, Expanded and Updated: And Other Secrets to Success, One Relationship at a Time”, p.32, Crown Business

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• The universe appears to me like an immense, inexorable torture-garden…Passions, greed, hatred, and lies; social institutions, justice, love, glory, heroism, and religion: these are its monstrous flowers and its hideous instruments of eternal human suffering.

  Octave Mirbeau

  Lying, Flower, Passion

  Octave Mirbeau (2016). “Torture Garden”, p.149, Library of Alexandria

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• Ours is an upbeat, a hurried, hasty beat. It keeps pressing us to go farther, to include everything so that we can savor everything, so that we can know everything, so that we will miss nothing. Partly it's greed, but mainly its curiosity. We just want to experience it. And we do.

  Agnes de Mille

  Missing, Curiosity, Want

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• I still play music for the same reasons as when I first started; for the energy, the feeling, the interaction with others. Not for the money, ego or greed.

  Jason Newsted

  Play, Interaction With Others, Ego

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• The women who take husbands not out of love but out of greed, to get their bills paid, to get a fine house and clothes and jewels; the women who marry to get out of a tiresome job, or to get away from disagreeable relatives, or to avoid being called an old maid -- these are whores in everything but name. The only difference between them and my girls is that my girls gave a man his money's worth.

  Polly Adler

  Girl, Jobs, Husband

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• If, in the present chaotic and shameful struggle for existence, when organized society offers a premium on greed, cruelty, and deceit, men can be found who stand aloof and almost alone in their determination to work for good rather than gold

  Lucy Parsons

  Determination, Lying, Struggle

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• Greed is costly. Assembled fortunes are lost.

  Laozi

  Taoism, Lost, Fortune

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• There is no greater fault than sensual indulgence. There is no greater misfortune than malcontent. There is no greater calamity than greed.

  Laozi

  Taoism, Greater, Misfortunes

  "Lao Tze's Tao Teh King: The Bible of Taoism".

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• Sex, greed, debauchery - I love it. Brian Azzarello is brilliant.

  Joseph Finder

  Sex, Debauchery, Brilliant

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• Mysticism has often been misunderstood as the attempt to escape this simple, phenomenal world to a more pure existence in heaven beyond. This is not mysticism, but Gnosticism. Biblical mysticism is the attempt to exit 'this world' to an alternative reality that pervades the old order. Its goal is to jettison the mind-set that says 'greed is good,' selfishness is normal,' and 'killing is necessary.' Mysticism in biblical terms is not escapism, as so many have caricatured it, but a fight for ethics and social change.

  Walter Wink

  Biblical, Fighting, Simple

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• One’s relationship with money is lifelong, it colors one’s sense of identity, it shapes one’s attitude to other people, it connects and splits generations; money is the arena in which greed and generosity are played out, in which wisdom is exercised and folly committed. Freedom, desire, power, status, work, possession: these huge ideas that rule life are enacted, almost always, in and around money.

  John Armstrong

  Attitude, Ideas, Color

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• The state is concerned with the promotion of outward righteousness arising from the individual being constrained to keep the law. The Gospel alters human nature, whereas the state merely restrains human greed and evil, having no positive power to alter human motivation.

  Alister E. McGrath

  Motivation, Law, Evil

  Alister E. McGrath (2012). “Reformation Thought: An Introduction”, p.217, John Wiley & Sons

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• Make Money a CENTRAL priority.  This has nothing to do with greed and consumption and everything to do with life force and power.

  Danielle LaPorte

  Priorities, Making Money, Force And Power

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• The basis of tragedy is man's helplessness against disease, war and death; the basis of comedy is man's helplessness against vanity (the vanity of love, greed, lust, power).

  Dawn Powell

  War, Men, Vanity

  Dawn Powell (1998). “The Diaries of Dawn Powell: 1931-1965”, Zoland Books

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