Greed Quotes - Page 26

• The law has been perverted through the influence of two very different causes-naked greed and misconceived philanthropy.

  Frederic Bastiat

  Law, Two, Different

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• They say 74% of everything you're learning in college is a bunch of bullshit you'll never need 83.4% of everything you've got, you bought to satisfy you're greed Because 91% of the world's population links their pssessions to success Even though 88% of the wealthiest 1% of the population drinks to an alarming excess More money more stress.

  Todd Snider

  Stress, College, Bullshit

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• Altruism is a fine motive, but if you want results, greed works much better.

  Henry Spencer

  Want, Results, Fine

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• Since time immemorial and pre-industrial, 'greed' has been the accusation hurled at the rich by the concrete-bound illiterates who were unable to conceive of the source of wealth or of the motivation of those who produce it.

  Ayn Rand

  Motivation, Wealth, Rich

  Ayn Rand (1966). “Capitalism, the Unknown Ideal”, Signet Book

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• Greed, the desire to incorporate, is magnified and fed back to produce the pretan realms, just as hate creates the hells.

  Robert Thurman

  Hate, Desire, Hell

  Robert Thurman (2011). “Tibetan Book of the Dead: Liberation Through Understanding in the Between”, p.29, Bantam

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• Ignorance and greed are part of the evolutionary process, which is just to say that mistakes are part of learning. There is nothing bad about behaviors or perceptions that do not work; they simply have to be given up and replaced by behaviors or perceptions that do work.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Mistake, Ignorance, Perception

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• Sacrifice, so that you may be saved. You have to sacrifice, not a bleating sheep or a horse or a cow, but your animality, the bestial lust and greed, hate and malice. Sacrifice these and you earn the heaven of unflinching peace.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Horse, Hate, Sacrifice

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• By an increase in anger, warfare arises. By an increase of greed, famine arises. By an increase of stupidity, pestilence arises. Because these three calamities occur, the people's earthly desires grow all the more intense, and their false views thrive and multiply.

  Nichiren

  Views, People, Stupidity

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• The cancer in me became an awareness of the cancer that is everywhere. The cancer of cruelty, the cancer of carelessness, the cancer of greed.

  Eve Ensler

  Cancer, Awareness, Cruelty

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• In the bible homosexuality is condemned, but along with divorce and greed and callousness toward poor people. So its elevation to a highest priority among some religious groups has been very disturbing to me.

  Jimmy Carter

  Religious, Divorce, People

  "Our Endangered Values". Interview with Jeff Fleischer, www.motherjones.com. June 2, 2006.

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• I don't like greed, I don't like ignorance. I really don't like anger. But I love love.

  David Crosby

  Ignorance

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The Fall of the House of Zeus is a riveting American saga of ambition, cunning, greed, corruption, high life and low life in the land of Faulkner and Grisham. These are good ol' boys gone bad with flair, private jets, and lots of cash to carry. Curtis Wilkie, a child of the South and a reporter's reporter, is the perfect match for this wild ride.

  Tom Brokaw

  Children, Fall, Ambition

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• Our incredible bewilderment (wilderness separation) blinds us from seeing that our many personal and global problems primarily result from our assault of and separation from the natural creation process within and around us. Our estrangement from nature leaves us wanting,and when we want there is never enough. Our insatiable wanting is called greed. It is a major source of our destructive dependencies and violence.

  Michael J Cohen

  Want, Violence, Separation

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• Nurture your felt love for nature. Never deny it. That love is the eons, the purifying intelligence, beauty and diversity of nature sustaining us in its perfection. Our disconnection from this love and its advice produces our hurt, greed and destructiveness. We must reconnect and restore its peaceful voice in our thoughts, soul and surroundings.

  Michael J Cohen

  Hurt, Love Is, Voice

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• God can rid your heart of greed, but it's your responsibility to remove yourself from situations that promote greediness.

  Linda Dillow

  Heart, Responsibility, Situation

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• I believe the vulpine greed of the corporate world is cut from the very same cloth as the tyrant of history.

  Adam Nevill

  Believe, Cutting, Tyrants

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• Spirituality for the most part is a mask worn by idleness, arrogance and greed.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Arrogance, Spirituality, Mask

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.4311, Library of Alexandria

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• The con is a kind of jiu-jitsu that turns the sucker's own greed into its principal weapon. The greedier you are the more likely you are to be conned, and for the greater a sum. Since people regularly dispose of their intelligence in their rush to be swindled, and then turn right around and do it again, humans must want to be duped. Institutionalized wishful thinking - the stock market, religion, advertising - is after all a cornerstone of our system.

  Luc Sante

  Thinking, People, Want

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• There is nothing inherently wrong with greed as a human motivator - greed motivating evolution. But there's a huge disconnect between the classes. It is very demoralizing to work for someone who makes a billion dollars a year while you make just barely enough to make it.

  Oliver Stone

  Evolution, Humans

  Director's Commentary to the "Wall Street" DVD, 2000.

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• Sufficient to say, greed is a deadly deed. You shall not covet your neighbor's goods.

  Saint Patrick

  Deeds, Neighbor, Goods

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• There are two brands of discontent: the brand that merely fosters greed and snarling and back-biting, and the brand that inspires greater and greater effort to reach the desired goal. Which is your brand?

  B. C. Forbes

  Two, Goal, Effort

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• Up until the Depression, recession had a moral character: it was supposed to purge the body economic of the greed and excess that attends a business expansion.

  James Buchan

  Character, Expansion, Excess

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• It isn't that greed's increased. What's increased is the realization that you've got a free field to reach out for what you'd like to do.

  Paul Samuelson

  Realization, Fields, Reach Out

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• When you question a man's motives, when you say they are acting out of greed, they are in the pocket of an interest group, et cetera. It's awful hard to reach consensus. It's awful hard to reach across the table and shake hands. No matter how bitterly you disagree, though, it is always possible if you question judgment and not motive.

  Joe Biden

  Men, Hands, Acting

  "Best and worst of 2015 commencement address season". "The Five" with Eric Bolling, www.foxnews.com. May 18, 2015.

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• Gambling operates under the premise that greed can be satisfied by luck.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Gambling, Luck, Satisfied

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