Greed Quotes - Page 5

• Men hate the individual whom they call avaricious only because there is nothing to be gained by him.

  Voltaire

  Hate, Men, Objectivity

  "VOLTAIRE - Premium Collection: Novels, Philosophical Writings, Historical Works, Plays, Poems & Letters". 60+ Works in One Volume,

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  Let us wage a moral and political war against the billionaires and corporate leaders, on Wall Street and elsewhere, whose policies and greed are destroying the middle class of America.

  Bernie Sanders

  Wall, War, America

  FaceBook post by U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders from Jun 10, 2012

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• Most of the mess that is called history comes about because kings and presidents cannot be satisfied with a nice chicken and a good loaf of bread.

  Jennifer Donnelly

  Kings, Nice, President

  Jennifer Donnelly (2015). “Revolution”, p.57, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• New York City is a great monument to the power of money and greed... a race for rent.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Money, New York, Artist

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• There are many winds full of anger, and lust and greed. They move the rubbish around, but the solid mountain of our true nature stays where it's always been.

  Rumi

  Integrity, Moving, Wind

  Jelaluddin Rumi (2000). “Feeling the Shoulder of the Lion: Poetry and Teaching Stories of Rumi”, p.91, Shambhala Publications

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  It is not in the nature of politics that the best men should be elected. The best men do not want to govern their fellowmen.

  George MacDonald

  Power, Men, People

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• An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit.

  Pliny the Elder

  Marriage, Education, Goal

  "The Letters of Pliny the Younger". Book by Pliny the Elder (Book II, Letter 15), 1751.

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• Lesson number one: Don't underestimate the other guy's greed.

  Robert Loggia

  Money, Numbers, Guy

  "Fictional character: Frank Lopez". Michelle Pfeiffer: Elvira Hancock, www.imdb.com. 1983.

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• Those who own much have much to fear.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Inspirational, Mind Your Own Business

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• What made traditional economies so radically different and so very fundamentally dangerous to Western economies were the traditional principles of prosperity of Creation versus scarcity of resources, of sharing and distribution versus accumulation and greed, of kinship usage rights versus individual exclusive ownership rights, and of sustainability versus growth.

  Rebecca Adamson

  Rights, Growth, Principles

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• The writer's greed is appalling. He wants, or seems to want, everything and practically everybody, in another sense, and at the same time, he needs no one at all.

  James A. Baldwin

  Writing, Needs, Literature

  1961 Nobody Knows My Name,'Alas, Poor Richard'.

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• Microsoft is not about greed. It's about innovation and fairness.

  Bill Gates

  Money, Business, Innovation

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• All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Inspirational, Life, Religious

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• Greed is a deprivation of abundance, a hoarding, a constriction of energy.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Energy, Hoarding, Abundance

  "Exclusive: Terry Tempest Williams On Sacred Rage, Abundance, and the Upcoming White House Tar Sands Pipeline Action". Interview with Jerry Cope, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 17, 2011.

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• So for a good old-gentlemanly vice, I think I must take up with avarice.

  Lord Byron

  Thinking, Vices, Gentlemanly

  'Don Juan' (1819-24) canto 1, st. 216

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• There is no fire like passion: there is no evil and hatred.

  Gautama Buddha

  Passion, Fire, Evil

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• Money is neither my god nor my devil. It is a form of energy that tends to make us more of who we already are, whether it's greedy or loving.

  Dan Millman

  Happiness, Success, Being Happy

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• The only thing wrong with the NBA - or any other professional sport, for that matter - is a wild epidemic of Dumbness and overweening Greed. There is no Mystery about it, and no need to change any rules.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Sports, Epidemics, Nba

  Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “Hey Rube: Blood Sport, the Bush Doctrine, and the Downward S”, p.81, Simon and Schuster

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• Sin is one thing but instinctive reaction or passion is another. These are our reactions: pride, anger, sexual indulgence, hate, greed, and so on. The corresponding sins are the gratification of these passions: when a man acts and brings into corporeal reality those works which were suggested to him by his desires. It is impossible to exist without desires arising, but not to give way to them is by no means impossible.

  Dorotheus of Gaza

  Christian, Hate, Passion

  Saint Dorotheus (of Gaza) (1977). “Discourses and Sayings”

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  It has always seemed strange to me... the things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second.

  John Steinbeck

  Love, Wisdom, Appreciation

  John Steinbeck (1963). “The short novels of John Steinbeck: Tortilla Flat, The red pony, Of mice and men, The moon is down, Cannery Row, The pearl”

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• The vice I am talking of is Pride or Self-Conceit: and the virtue opposite to it, in Christian morals, is called Humility...According to Christian teachers, the essential vice, the utmost evil, is Pride. Unchastity, anger, greed, drunkenness, and all that, are mere flea bites in comparison: it was through Pride that the devil became the devil: Pride leads to every other vice: it is the complete anti-God state of mind.

  C. S. Lewis

  Christian, Teacher, Inspiration

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• There is no such thing as material covetousness. All covetousness is spiritual. ...Any so-called material thing that you want is merely a symbol: you want it not for itself, but because it will content your spirit for the moment.

  Mark Twain

  Spiritual, Want, Materialism

  Mark Twain (1973). “What Is Man? and Other Philosophical Writings”, p.202, Univ of California Press

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  He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.

  Socrates

  Inspirational, Life, Happiness

  Socrates, Plato, Aristotle (1967). “Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study”

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• What difference does it make how much you have? What you do not have amounts to much more.

  Seneca the Younger

  Funny, Inspiring, Sarcastic

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• That’s the American Dream: to make your life into something you can sell.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Life, Sarcastic, Dream

  Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Haunted”, p.52, Random House

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