Greed Quotes - Page 4

• Greed has poisoned men's souls, has barricaded the world with hate, has goose-stepped us into misery and bloodshed.

  Charlie Chaplin

  Hate, Men, Soul

  "Fictional character: Hynkel (Dictator of Tomania / A Jewish Barber)". "The Great Dictator", www.imdb.com. October 15, 1940.

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• The Gesundheit Institute is a pie in the face of greed - by taking the most expensive thing in America, health care, and giving it away for free.

  Patch Adams

  Health, America, Pie

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• The Master said, “If your conduct is determined solely by considerations of profit you will arouse great resentment.

  Confucius

  Determined, Resentment, Consideration

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• The attempt to satisfy greed is like drinking salty water when thirsty.
  When lost in greed we look outward rather than inward for satisfaction, yet we never find enough to fill the emptiness we wish to escape.
  The real hunger we feel is for knowledge of our true nature.

  Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche

  Nature, Real, Drinking

  Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche, Mark Dahlby (2004). “The Tibetan Yogas of Dream and Sleep”, p.38, Motilal Banarsidass Publ.

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• Someone reminded me I once said, 'Greed is good.' Now it seems it's legal.

  Michael Douglas

  Said, Greed Is Good, Seems

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• Possessions are usually diminished by possession.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Materialism, Possession, Avarice

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• Greed is gross. Greed is vile. Greed sucks.

  Yasmin Alibhai-Brown

  Gross

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• The fact that people will be full of greed, fear, or folly is predictable. The sequence is not predictable.

  Warren Buffett

  People, Investing, Facts

  Financial Review, 1985.

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• Greed is good! Greed is right! Greed works! Greed will save the U.S.A.!

  Michael Douglas

  Business, Greed Is Good

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• A covetous man's penny is a stone.

  Bill Vaughan

  Men, Stones, Pennies

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

  Michael Douglas

  Movie, Great Year, Classic Films

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• The problem of social organization is how to set up an arrangement under which greed will do the least harm, capitalism is that kind of a system.

  Milton Friedman

  Philosophy, Organization, Political

  Milton Friedman (1968). “Bright Promises, Dismal Performance: An Economist's Protest”, San Diego : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich

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• There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Wisdom, Selfish People

  Oscar Wilde (2015). “The Picture of Dorian Gray”, p.61, First Avenue Editions

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• There is no fire like passion, there is no shark like hatred, there is no snare like folly, there is no torrent like greed.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Passion, Fire

  Gautama Buddha (2013). “The Dhammapada”, p.33, Simon and Schuster

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• Purposeless activity may be a phase of death.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Phases, May, Materialism

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• The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury.

  Charlie Chaplin

  Money, Luxury, Imagination

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

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• The only effective answer to organized greed is organized labor.

  Thomas R. Donahue

  Answers, Organized Labor, Unions

  "When Unions are Strong, Americans Enjoy the Fruits of Their Labor" by David Morris, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 8, 2011.

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• Greed has taken the whole universe, and nobody is worried about their soul.

  Little Richard

  Taken, Soul, Worried

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• Republicans stand for raw, unbridled evil and greed and ignorance smothered in balloons and ribbons.

  Frank Zappa

  Ignorance, Evil, Ribbons

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• Wars and revolutions and battles are due simply and solely to the body and its desires.

  Socrates

  War, Philosophical, Desire

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• I think greed is healthy. You can be greedy and still feel good about yourself.

  Ivan Boesky

  Thinking, Feel Good, Healthy

  18 May 1986 See Film Lines 184

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• There is a sufficiency in the world for man's need but not for man's greed.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Love, Peace, Heart

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• You show me a capitalist, and I'll show you a bloodsucker.

  Malcolm X

  Hope, Political, Politics

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• Neither fear nor self-interest can convert the soul. They may change the appearance, perhaps even the conduct, but never the object of supreme desire... Fear is the motive which constrains the slave; greed binds the selfish man, by which he is tempted when he is drawn away by his own lust and enticed (James 1:14). But neither fear nor self-interest is undefiled, nor can they convert the soul. Only charity can convert the soul, freeing it from unworthy motives.

  Bernard of Clairvaux

  Fear, Selfish, Men

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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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