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New York City is a great monument to the power of money and greed... a race for rent.
Author:
Frank Wright
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Undoubtedly there are, in connection with each of these things, cases of fraud, swindling, and other financial crimes; that is to say, the greed and selfishness of men are perpetual.
Author:
William Sumner
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Looking so cool, his greed is hard to conceal, he's fresh out of law school, you gave him a license to steal.
Author:
Al Stewart
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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.
Author:
John Steinbeck
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Greed has driven the world crazy. And I think I'm lucky that I have a place over here that I can call home.
Author:
Nina Simone
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For greed all nature is too little.
Author:
Lucius Seneca
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An intriguing paradox of the 1990s is that it isn't called a decade of greed.
Author:
Paul Samuelson
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Fear tends to manifest itself much more quickly than greed, so volatile markets tend to be on the downside. In up markets, volatility tends to gradually decline.
Author:
Philip Roth
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Greed has taken the whole universe, and nobody is worried about their soul.
Author:
Little Richard
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But men are so full of greed today, they'll sell anything for a little piece of money.
Author:
Little Richard
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We have seen that in this country in the last few years, particularly on Wall Street, with the rise of the old human frailty of greed. This occurs when people begin to serve only their own needs to the detriment of everyone else.
Author:
Lee Raymond
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The basis of tragedy is man's helplessness against disease, war and death; the basis of comedy is man's helplessness against vanity (the vanity of love, greed, lust, power).
Author:
Dawn Powell
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Calm self-confidence is as far from conceit as the desire to earn a decent living is remote from greed.
Author:
Channing Pollock
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All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.
Author:
Edgar Poe
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Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power.
Author:
P. O'Rourke
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We didn't become the most prosperous country in the world just by rewarding greed and recklessness. We didn't come this far by letting the special interests run wild. We didn't do it just by gambling and chasing paper profits on Wall Street. We built this country by making things, by producing goods we could sell.
Author:
Barack Obama
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The beast for me is greed. Whether you read Dante, Swift, or any of these guys, it always boils down to the same thing: the corruption of the soul.
Author:
Ben Nicholson
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The Bible and several other self help or enlightenment books cite the Seven Deadly Sins. They are: pride, greed, lust, envy, wrath, sloth, and gluttony. That pretty much covers everything that we do, that is sinful... or fun for that matter.
Author:
Dave Mustaine
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But love, like the sun that it is, sets afire and melts everything. what greed and privilege to build up over whole centuries the indignation of a pious spirit, with its natural following of oppressed souls, will cast down with a single shove.
Author:
Jose Marti
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The curse of the romantic is a greed for dreams, an intensity of expectation that, in the end, diminishes the reality.
Author:
Marya Mannes
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I certainly understand that we're all trying to make a living, but I'm not thinking about that when I'm making it. And if that's your sole motivation, it's going to reflect that narcissistic greed, and you're going to hear it in the music.
Author:
Aimee Mann
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Men of vision. Oh, I love the fine names men give each other to hide their greed and lust for adventure.
Author:
Charles MacArthur
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Time! Joyless emblem of the greed of millions, robber of the best which earth can give.
Author:
Amy Lowell
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The organization and constant onward sweep of this movement exemplifies the resentment of the many toward the selfishness, greed and the neglect of the few.
Author:
John Lewis
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My head can get to murder and rape for profit because I can understand greed as a human motive, but I cannot understand the voyeuristic desire to watch such a film. I can comprehend one and I cannot comprehend the other.
Author:
Donna Leon
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We did not find it difficult to deal with Bush and his administration, because it is similar to regimes in our countries - both types include many who are full of arrogance and greed.
Author:
Osama Laden
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The everyday kindness of the back roads more than makes up for the acts of greed in the headlines.
Author:
Charles Kuralt
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There are a lot of people who are doing wonderful things, quietly, with no motive of greed, or hostility toward other people, or delusions of superiority.
Author:
Charles Kuralt
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Leadership is a privilege to better the lives of others. It is not an opportunity to satisfy personal greed.
Author:
Mwai Kibaki
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Even in a time of elephantine vanity and greed, one never has to look far to see the campfires of gentle people.
Author:
Garrison Keillor
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They have stolen the public lands. They have grasped all to themselves, and by their unprincipled greed brought a crisis of unparalleled distress on forty millions of people, who have natural resources to feed, clothe and shelter the whole human race.
Author:
Denis Kearney
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John will never send a boy or girl in a uniform anywhere in the world because of our need and greed for oil.
Author:
Teresa Heinz
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Nothing makes us more vulnerable than loneliness, except greed.
Author:
Thomas Harris
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Greed and globalization aren't just America's fault.
Author:
Arlo Guthrie
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At a time when unbridled greed, malignant aggression, and existence of weapons of mass destruction threatens the survival of humanity, we should seriously consider any avenue that offers some hope.
Author:
Stanislav Grof
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Most of the time common stocks are subject to irrational and excessive price fluctuations in both directions as the consequence of the ingrained tendency of most people to speculate or gamble... to give way to hope, fear and greed.
Author:
Benjamin Graham
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What I loathe is the multi-national conglomerates who must take responsibility for the degradation and pollution of so much of our landscape with their factory farming and greed.
Author:
Fay Godwin
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Microsoft is not about greed. It's about innovation and fairness.
Author:
Bill Gates
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There is a sufficiency in the world for man's need but not for man's greed.
Author:
Mohandas Gandhi
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Most individuals have always thought themselves not big enough or significant enough to have an effect on the whole planet, a notion which conversely made them think they could afford big arrogance and big greed over its resources.
Author:
Lynette Fromme
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Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction.
Author:
Erich Fromm
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Well first of all, tell me, is there some society you know of that doesn't run on greed? You think Russia doesn't run on greed? You think China doesn't run on greed? What is greed?
Author:
Milton Friedman
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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.
Author:
Milton Friedman
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I don't think that fundamentalism has anything to do with Jesus Christ. They call themselves Christians, but if that's Christian, count me out. Fundamentalism is built on fear and greed. They're telling you to give them your money otherwise you're going to hell.
Author:
Matthew Fox
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From the first day to this, sheer greed was the driving spirit of civilization.
Author:
Friedrich Engels
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I didn't do it because of the underlying greed that's prevailing, but it is about greed, doing the right thing at the right time using your clout when you have it and what for and what reason.
Author:
Danny DeVito
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It is greed to do all the talking but not to want to listen at all.
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Democritus
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As time goes on we get closer to that American Dream of there being a pie cut up and shared. Usually greed and selfishness prevent that and there is always one bad apple in every barrel.
Author:
Rick Danko
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I think war is based in greed and there are huge karmic retributions that will follow. I think war is never the answer to solving any problems. The best way to solve problems is to not have enemies.
Author:
Sheryl Crow
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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.
Author:
Jacques Cousteau
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Lust and greed are more gullible than innocence.
Author:
Mason Cooley
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Greed, like the love of comfort, is a kind of fear.
Author:
Cyril Connolly
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Greed is the inventor of injustice as well as the current enforcer.
Author:
Julian Casablancas
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There is enough in the world for everyone's need, but not enough for everyone's greed.
Author:
Frank Buchman
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But at a certain point, and I don't really know... people have asked me this. I don't know exactly what it was that pushed me towards directing, but I think it was a naive notion that if I directed I would be able to play all the roles. A kind of greed.
Author:
Peter Bogdanovich
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The ignorant mind, with its infinite afflictions, passions, and evils, is rooted in the three poisons. Greed, anger, and delusion.
Author:
Bodhidharma
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Fifa cannot sit by and see greed rule the football world. Nor shall we.
Author:
Sepp Blatter
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When the stock market crashed, Franklin Roosevelt got on the television and didn't just talk about the princes of greed. He said, 'Look, here's what happened.'
Author:
Joe Biden
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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.
Author:
James Baldwin
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Do not follow vain desires; for verily he who prospers is preserved from lust, greed and anger.
Author:
Abu Bakr
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There is a lesson there about greed and it is a lesson I am willing to learn as well. Has it made me a distrustful person? I don't think so. But we probably look a bit more carefully at our financial situation now.
Author:
Kevin Bacon
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I think one of the most pervasive evils in this world is greed and acquiring money for money's sake. Once you have six houses and a plane, it's just about a number. It's never been anything I understood.
Author:
Kevin Bacon
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Rulers do not reduce taxes to be kind. Expediency and greed create high taxation, and normally it takes an impending catastrophe to bring it down.
Author:
Charles Adams
