Greed Quotes - Page 7

• Reduce the complexity of life by eliminating the needless wants of life, and the labors of life reduce themselves.

  Edwin Way Teale

  Life, Simple, Simplicity

  Edwin Way Teale (1953). “Circle of the Seasons: The Journal of a Naturalist's Year”

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• If money be not thy servant, it will be thy master. The covetous man cannot so properly be said to possess wealth, as that may be said to possess him.

  Francis Bacon

  Money, Men, May

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• Capitalism is an organized system to guarantee that greed becomes the primary force of our economic system and allows the few at the top to get very wealthy and has the rest of us riding around thinking we can be that way, too - if we just work hard enough, sell enough Tupperware and Amway products, we can get a pink Cadillac.

  Michael Moore

  Hard Work, Thinking, Guarantees That

  "Is Michael Moore Pro-Piracy: Illegal Copies of “Capitalism: A Love Story” Inspiring OWS?" by Anthony Kaufman, www.indiewire.com. December 6, 2011.

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• There's enough on this planet for everyone's needs but not for everyone's greed.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Power, Hunger And Poverty, Hunger Poverty

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• The twin killers of success are impatience and greed.

  Jim Rohn

  Inspirational, Motivational, Killers

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from May 07, 2017

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• We live in a system that espouses merit, equality, and a level playing field, but exalts those with wealth, power, and celebrity, however gained.

  Derrick Bell

  America, Levels, Fields

  Derrick Bell (2010). “Ethical Ambition”, p.5, A&C Black

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• Human behavior is subject to the same laws as any other natural phenomenon. Our customs, behaviors, and values are byproducts of our culture. No one is born with greed, prejudice, bigotry, patriotism and hatred; these are all learned behavior patterns. If the environment is unaltered, similar behavior will reoccur.

  Jacque Fresco

  Nature, Hate, Learning

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• Greed is too flimsy
  to flawed

  Mario

  Flawed

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• Suddenly I find myself feeling sorry for those greedy, needy people whose huge salaries are never quite enough, whose sense of worth is defined by their own personal wad. What a diminished, impoverished world they must inhabit ... We should feel sorry for them and their sadly limited lives. Then we should remember never to trust the judgement of those whose priorities are so idiotically skewed.

  Terence Blacker

  Sorry, People, Priorities

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• It is strange people should be so greedy, when they are alone in the world.

  Emily Bronte

  People, World, Strange

  Emily Bronte “Wuthering Heights”, Lulu.com

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• Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Life, Positive, Simple

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.11, Simon and Schuster

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• For greed, all nature is too little.

  Seneca the Younger

  Nature, Philosophical, Littles

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

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• He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Money, Motivation, Greatest Wealth

  Benjamin Franklin “Poor Richard Day by Day”, Lulu.com

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• Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy they are, who already possess it.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Happiness, Happy, Heart

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• It's our greed to extract more and more from good that turns it into evil.

  Amish Tripathi

  Evil, Amish, Turns

  Amish Tripathi (2015). “The Shiva Trilogy: Omnibus”, p.661, Hachette UK

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• Patience leads to power; but eagerness in greed leads to loss.

  H. P. Blavatsky

  Patience, Loss, Eagerness

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• I am prone to envy. It is one of my three default emotions, the others being greed and rage. I have also experienced compassion and generosity, but only fleetingly and usually while drunk, so I have little memory.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Memories, Compassion, Drunk

  Augusten Burroughs (2011). “Possible Side Effects”, p.20, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Wars and revolutions and battles are due simply and solely to the body and its desires. All wars are undertaken for the acquisition of wealth; and the reason why we have to acquire wealth is the body, because we are slaves in its service.

  Socrates

  War, Desire, Battle

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• If we go on the way we have, the fault is our greed and if we are not willing to change, we will disappear from the face of the globe, to be replaced by the insect.

  Jacques Yves Cousteau

  Humanity, Way, Faces

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Ambition and thirst for power have a part but greed and greed alone is the reason for a man wanting to swell his ward.

  Charles Ranlett Flint

  Ambition, Men, Reason

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• The world says: "You have needs - satisfy them. You have as much right as the rich and the mighty. Don't hesitate to satisfy your needs; indeed, expand your needs and demand more." This is the worldly doctrine of today. And they believe that this is freedom. The result for the rich is isolation and suicide, for the poor, envy and murder.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Suicide, Believe, Envy

  "The Idiot". Book by Fyodor Dostoevsky (p. 2151), 1874.

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• Revolt is the mirror in which greed is forced to see itself.

  Alice Walker

  Mirrors, Revolt

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• Greed is good to most economists. It's greed that makes people work harder, be more productive and helps the economy grow.

  Rebecca M. Blank

  Hard Work, People, Helping

  "Religion and Ethics NewsWeekly" with Bob Abernethy, www.pbs.org. September 19, 2008.

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• Greed is an integral quality of a strong player.

  Sergei Shipov

  Strong, Player, Quality

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• Remember: Greed is a bad color on a person.

  Bill Engvall

  Color, Remember, Persons

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