The worst enslaving trait of all is greed. I rail against the substitution of money for worth. The idea that the endless… — Gerry Spence Copy Share Image
“I pretend to give gifts that people pretend to be gifts so that I can pretend that I gave something that actually… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
For the exploitation of human greed, they have devised comparison and competition. Right from childhood on, we are indoctrinated to compare and… — Lobsang Tenzin Copy Share Image
Men should continue to fight, but they should fight for things worth while, not for imaginary geographical lines, racial prejudices and private… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
What happened under communism - and increasingly, is happening in America, as Joseph Sobran put it: 'Need' now means wanting someone else's… — John Stossel Copy Share Image
“To make a deliberate falsification for personal gain is the last, worst depth to which either scholar or artist can descend in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The most exquisite paradox… as soon as you give it all up, you can have it all. As long as you want… — Ram Dass Copy Share Image
There's something on Wall Street called PIG - panic, ignorance, and greed. Those are the big sins. I'm not greedy, I knew… — Melvin Van Peebles Copy Share Image
“After 1908, and especially after 1945, capitalist greed was somewhat reined in, not least due to the fear of Communism. Yet inequities… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Wars have always been with us, as have droughts. No, in the end, I think it will be greed that does us… — Erica Verrillo Copy Share Image
My definition of a decent society is one that first of all takes care of its losers, and protects its weak. What… — John le Carre Copy Share Image
The world has enough women who are tough; we need women who are tender. There are enough women who are coarse; we… — Margaret D. Nadauld Copy Share Image
“The weaknesses of human nature appear more clearly in a storm than in the quiet flow of calmer times. Among the overwhelming… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
“I thought about that, watching the ambulance growing smaller in the distance, thought about the bottomless abuse of power by the bottom… — Tom Lowe Copy Share Image
“There is nobody in this country who got rich on their own. Nobody. You built a factory out there - good for… — Elizabeth Warren Copy Share Image
... But as a Godless greed pursued its career from excess to excess, it provoked a sort of twin hostile brother, equally… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
I make no pretensions to 'objectivity,' a fraudulent concept in an era of industrialized and politicized science in which intellectual mercenaries too… — Hazel Henderson Copy Share Image
When we appropriate money from the public funds to pay for vaccinating a horde of negroes, we do not do it because… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In our daily life, we encounter people who are angry, deceitful, intent only on satisfying their own needs. There is so much… — Margaret J. Wheatley Copy Share Image
“I dont believe knowing can save us. What is constant in history is greed and foolishness and a love of blood and… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
Riches are gotten with pain, kept with care, and lost with grief. The cares of riches lie heavier upon a good man… — Roger L'Estrange Copy Share Image
The greatest need in the world is the transformation of human nature. We need a new heart that will not have lust… — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
Where is your heart? Is your heart with God? Is it with your own ego or your lust? Is it with your… — Hamza Yusuf Copy Share Image
This is Wall Street, and today is important. Because tomorrow, July 4th, I intended to make my first million dollars--an excitingday in… — Abraham Polonsky Copy Share Image
“Selfish needs, wants, and desires needed to be obliterated. Greed, overindulgence, and gluttony had to be expunged from human behavior. The solution… — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
We stress humanity, and this is done at considerable cost. We can't have a lot of dramatics that other shows get away… — Gene Roddenberry Copy Share Image
“The Way of heaven takes away where there's abundance and restores where there's want, but the Way of humankind isn't like that:… — Lao Tzu Copy Share Image
''And one day when all is gone and mankind is lost, all he leaves is the desert.'' ''For man is his own… — Jeremy Limn Copy Share Image
We have a duty to look after each other. If we lose control of our government, then we lose our ability to… — Doris "Granny D" Haddock Copy Share Image
...short-sighted men who in their greed and selfishness will, if permitted, rob our country of half its charm by their reckless extermination… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The great thing about behavioural psychology and economics is that they help us to see that there are actually pretty good reasons… — Niall Ferguson Copy Share Image
“The ego lusts for satisfaction. It has a prideful ferocious appetite for its version of "truth". It is the most challenging aspect… — T.F. Hodge Copy Share Image
I always do things for the right reasons. If there's a choice between greed - plastic surgeons are very greedy - and… — Terry Dubrow Copy Share Image
“It’s not a sin to be obsessed with money, for without it, there can be no material benefits. But what about the… — Abhaidev Copy Share Image
Do not think me mad. It is not to make money that I believe a Christian should live. The noblest thing a… — David Livingstone Copy Share Image
The love of nature is a passion for those in whom it once lodges. It can never be quenched. It cannot change.… — Mary Webb Copy Share Image
Everything is poisoned, and it's all poisoned from greed. I think our inability to communicate with each other and everything that's happening… — Woody Harrelson Copy Share Image
To those who can hear me, I say - do not despair. The misery that is now upon us is but the… — Charlie Chaplin Copy Share Image
“We will not be able to protect against future crises if we rail against greed, corruption, and wrongdoing without looking in the… — Richard H. Thaler Copy Share Image
[Mid-list writers are now] less greed on the part of both publishers and chain booksellers. It is easier for them to publish… — W. P. Kinsella Copy Share Image
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