Greed Quotes - Page 18

• In 'Tarahumara' land, there was no crime, war or theft. There was no corruption, obesity, drug addiction, greed, wife-beating, child abuse, heart disease, high blood pressure, or carbon emissions. They didn't get diabetes, or depressed, or even old: 50-year-olds outran teenagers.

  Christopher McDougall

  Children, War, Teenager

  Christopher McDougall (2010). “Born to Run: The hidden tribe, the ultra-runners, and the greatest race the world has never seen”, p.14, Profile Books

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• In the past, traditional art was based on making manifest what is enduring in man, like love, jealousy, hatred, envy, and greed... . Today art has to look again at these unchanging qualities, because society is no longer unchanging. It is up to art today to show us what has become of these unchanging qualities in a world which is moving and changing.

  Tawfiq al-Hakim

  Art, Moving, Past

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• How could sufferings be relieved through purification? To know the Path is to get lost at the ford. Indeed, sickness comes from worldly love And poverty begins with the pursuit of greed.

  Wang Wei

  Buddhism, Suffering, Path

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• The beauty was in the waking of the powerless. Is it always to be true that it is impossible to have things strong and at the same time beautiful? The famished men need not stay famished. But to gorge themselves in this heartbreaking way consuming, utterly destroying the common promise of their greed, was that ever necessary?

  Ayi Kwei Armah

  Beautiful, Strong, Men

  Ayi Kwei Armah (1988). “The Beautyful Ones are Not Yet Born”, p.85, Heinemann

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• Nothing in the world is so incontinent as a man's accursed appetite.

  Homer

  Men, World, Appetite

  Homer (1983). “The Odyssey”, Outlet

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• Human beings are very complex creatures. This desire, this greed, this love is very complex.

  Yash Chopra

  Love Is, Desire, Humans

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• This America has been the country of greed rather than the country of need.

  Ariel Dorfman

  Country, America, Needs

  "Novelist-playwright Ariel Dorfman". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. November 1, 2011.

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• The first line in the first Gasland is: “I’m not a pessimist. I’ve always had a great deal of faith in people that we won’t succumb to frenzy or rage or greed. That we’ll figure out a solution without destroying the things that we love.” I have not lost that sense.

  Josh Fox

  People, Lines, Firsts

  "“Gasland Part II”: The Fracking Empire Strikes Back". Interview with Brett Brownell, www.motherjones.com. July 8, 2013.

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• I can see the greed and envy in your eyes.

  Nelly

  Eye, Reality, Envy

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• Elevation of today's generation, if I can make them listen. Prisons ain't what we need, no longer stuck in greed.

  Tupac Shakur

  Inspirational, Generations, Today's Generation

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• If there was a university degree for greed, you cunts would all get first-class honours.

  Paul Keating

  University Degrees, Class, Political

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• Sail on, sail on, o' might Ship of State. To the shores of need, past the reefs of greed, through the squalls of hate. Sail on, sail on, sail on.

  Leonard Cohen

  Hate, Past, Needs

  Leonard Cohen (2008). “The Lyrics of Leonard Cohen: Enhanced Edition”, p.66, Omnibus Press

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• We need to move beyond the demonisation of overpaid traders ... In finance and economics, ill-designed policy is a more powerful force for harm than individual greed or error.

  Adair Turner, Baron Turner of Ecchinswell

  Powerful, Business, Moving

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• Market values are fixed only in part by balance sheets and income statements; much more by the hopes and fears of humanity; by greed, ambition, acts of God, invention, financial stress and strain, weather, discovery, fashion and numberless other causes impossible to be listed without omission.

  Gerald M. Loeb

  Fashion, Business, Stress

  Gerald M. Loeb (2007). “Battle for Investment Survival”, p.2, John Wiley & Sons

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• God is in heaven, and we all want what's his. But power and greed and corruptible seed seem to be all that there is.

  Bob Dylan

  Religious, Heaven, Religion

  Song: Blind Willie McTell

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• Obviously you have to make a profit to put out a newspaper. I'm not an idiot. But when the margins are in excess of 25 per cent you're talking about greed.

  Carl Hiaasen

  Talking, Excess, Idiot

  "He's all the rage" by Euan Ferguson, www.theguardian.com. March 17, 2002.

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• Love of the simple is all that I need, I've no time for schism or lovers of greed.

  Van Morrison

  Philosophy, Simple, Needs

  Song: I'm Tired Joey Boy, Album: Avalon Sunset

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• Mr. Greed, why do you have to own everything that you see?

  John Fogerty

  Philosophy

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• I am guilty of stupidity, arrogance, and greed.

  Steve Madden

  Stupidity, Arrogance, Guilty

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• As we grow up, we are exposed to hate and greed and anger and jealousy and peanut brittle and all kinds of things, our subtly body erodes.

  Frederick Lenz

  Growing Up, Hate, Body

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• The main source of our wealth is goodness. The affections and the generous qualities that God admires in a world full of greed.

  Alfred Armand Montapert

  Generosity, Quality, World

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• We are rich only through what we give.

  Sophie Swetchine

  Giving, Rich

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• I just want people to see what I deem as a war for no reason, but only for greed.

  Robert Cray

  War, People, Want

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• Only those blinded by greed would refuse to let a friend make a copy.

  Aaron Swartz

  Copies, Refuse, Blinded

  Aaron Swartz (2016). “The Boy Who Could Change the World: The Writings of Aaron Swartz”, p.27, The New Press

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• Nothing destroys one's respect in the hearts of others more than greed.

  Muhammad Taqi Usmani

  Heart

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