Greed Quotes - Page 9

• It is amazing how many of the intelligentsia call it "greed" to want to keep what you have earned, but not greed to want to take away what somebody else has earned, and let politicians use it to buy votes.

  Thomas Sowell

  Use, Want, Vote

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• In this world laws are written for the lofty aim of "the common good" and then acted out in life on the basis of the common greed.

  Saul Alinsky

  Law, World, Common

  Saul Alinsky (2010). “Rules for Radicals: A Pragmatic Primer for Realistic Radicals”, p.13, Vintage

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• The greed and envy of the nonproducer is insatiable, so that eventually nothing short of 100% taxation will appease him.

  Robert Ringer

  Envy, Taxation, Insatiable

  Robert J. Ringer (1983). “How you can find happiness during the collapse of Western civilization”, Harpercollins

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• We associate the North Atlantic with cod. The motto of Newfoundland used to be 'In cod we trust.' It was a joke, but it was essentially true. But there is no cod anymore. And that's extraordinary. It's all because of either greed or politics - Canadian politics.

  Simon Winchester

  Motto, Used, Extraordinary

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• This isn't about fans, greed or money. It's about being morally right or wrong. Nobody is governing the way music gets from artists to fans. It's all running amok.

  Lars Ulrich

  Running, Artist, Fans

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• People's lives are forever controlled by two emotions: fear and greed.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Two, People, Forever

  Twitter post from Dec 26, 2013

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• Public opinion takes no offense at the endeavors of farmers, workers, clerks, teachers, doctors, ministers, and people from many other callings to earn as much as they can. But it censures the capitalists and entrepreneurs for their greed.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Teacher, Doctors, People

  Ludwig Von Mises, Murray Newton Rothbard (1980). “Planning for freedom, and sixteen other essays and addresses”, Libertarian Press, Incorporated

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• The bad consequences of a government program usually don't show up immediately. And the delay may be long enough to hide the connection between the program and its results. So government never has to say it's sorry - never has to take responsibility for ht misery it causes. Instead it can blame everything on personal greed, profit-hungry corporations, and the 'private sector.' And the government's cure for the problems is to impose bigger programs, more regulation and higher taxes.

  Harry Browne

  Sorry, Responsibility, Government

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• Aren't you tired of these career politicians on the left side of the aisle moralizing about the greed of the 'wealthy' when these same politicians habitually buy votes with borrowed dollars? Who are they to lecture those who actually produce and contribute to the economy?

  David Limbaugh

  Tired, Careers, Dollars

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• But in the financial markets, without proper institutional rules, there's the law of the jungle - because there's greed! There's nothing wrong with greed, per se. It's not that people are more greedy now than they were 20 years ago. But greed has to be tempered, first, by fear of losses. So if you bail people out, there's less fear. And second, b prudential regulation and supervision to avoid certain excesses.

  Nouriel Roubini

  Loss, Years, Law

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• Foolish people are never harmless. Stupidity accounts for as many crimes as anger and greed.

  Louise Penny

  People, Stupidity, Foolish

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• Jesus warns people far more often about greed than about sex, yet almost no one thinks they are guilty of it.

  Timothy Keller

  Jesus, Sex, Thinking

  Timothy Keller (2009). “Counterfeit Gods: The Empty Promises of Money, Sex, and Power, and the Only Hope that Matters”, p.40, Penguin

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• There will be people who will teach for the sake of greed or for the sake of ego. So watch their lives. Do they look and act like Jesus?

  Francis Chan

  Jesus, People, Ego

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• Liberals cling to the idea that critics of welfare are motivated by greed or callous disregard for the less fortunate. In fact, during the twenty-five years that followed Lyndon Johnson's declaration of war on poverty, U.S. tax payers spent $3 trillion providing every conceivable support for the poor, the elderly, and the infirm. Private foundations spent scores of billions more, and private and religious charities even more. Nevertheless, as Ronald Raegan later quipped, 'in the war on poverty, poverty won.'

  Mona Charen

  Religious, War, Elderly

  Mona Charen (2006). “Do-Gooders: How Liberals Hurt Those They Claim to Help and the Rest of Us”, Sentinel

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• The dull, purblind folly of the very rich men, their greed and arrogance, and the corruption in business and politics, have tended to produce a very unhealthy condition.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Men, Arrogance, Dull

  Theodore Roosevelt (1952). “The big stick, 1905-1907”

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• Greed has replaced religion as the national religion, and with greed comes envy.

  Wesley Pruden

  Envy, Replaced

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• The Internet is light at the end of the tunnel. I don't care if it's being used to peddle pornography, I don't care if it's being trivialized in a thousand ways. Anything can be trivialized. The important point is that it is leveling the playing field of global society. It is creating de-facto an entirely new set of political realities. None of the constipated, oligarchic structures that are resisting this were ever asked. Their greed betrayed them into investing in this in the first place without ever fully grasping what the implications of it were for their larger agenda.

  Terence McKenna

  Reality, Tunnels, Light

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• Unrestrained greed means the ruin of the great woods and the drying up of the sources of the rivers.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Mean, Rivers, Woods

  Theodore Roosevelt (1899). “The Rough Riders: An Autobiography”, p.568, Library of America

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• Whether it is under the guise of survival and self-defence or directly expressed through dominion and greed, the failure to recognize the common humanity shared by us all lies at the heart of our difficulties. To overcome it, we should begin to develop, from the level of the individual through that of society to the world at large, what I call a sense of universal responsibility; a deep respect for every living being who lives on this one small planet and calls it home.

  Dalai Lama

  Lying, Home, Heart

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• It's time for the wealthy to pay their fair share before the middle class becomes the forgotten class.- And it's time for the banks to give back what they were given. There are those in politics, particularly those on the conservative side, who can't get enough of telling people that the wealthy one per cent must not be taxed because doing so kills jobs. The real job-killers are corporate greed and political expediency. It's time for working people in Maine and all across the country to take back the American dream.

  Stephen King

  Dream, Country, Jobs

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• The Reagan-Bush years have exalted private gain over public obligation, special interests over the common good, wealth and fame over work and family. The 1980s ushered in a Gilded Age of greed and selfishness, of irresponsibility and excess, and of neglect.

  William J. Clinton

  Years, Age, Selfishness

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• Be fearful when there is greed and be greedy when there is fear.

  Warren Buffett

  Greedy, Fearful

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• The powerful have no monopoly on greed, hatred, fear, or ignorance.

  Cornel West

  Powerful, Ignorance, Hatred

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• I think nonviolence and the mediation of conflict by means of respecting civility must be promoted. But being the kind of beings we [peoplep] are - wrestling with greed, and wrestling with fears and security, anxieties, wrestling with hatred that's shot through all of us - wars are here to stay.

  Cornel West

  War, Mean, Wrestling

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• The silence of the world could not rein back it's greed. Not any longer. Not when it had virtually won.

  Philip K. Dick

  Silence, World, Reins

  Philip K. Dick (2008). “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?”, p.20, Ballantine Books

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