“There was somewhere, if you knew where to find it, some place where money could be made like drawing water from a… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
She never forgets a slight, real or imagined. She takes caution for cowardice and dissent for defiance. And she is greedy. Greedy… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Providing for one's family as a good husband and father is a watertight excuse for making money hand over fist. Greed may… — Eva Figes Copy Share Image
Throughout most of our history, nothing - not flood, famine, plague, or new weapons - has endangered humanity one-tenth as much as… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
The basis of tragedy is man's helplessness against disease, war and death; the basis of comedy is man's helplessness against vanity (the… — Dawn Powell Copy Share Image
I have vanity and greed enough for one person. But at the same time, I feel in my bones you lose a… — Ralph Waite Copy Share Image
“How can I be secure? (Pause.) Through amassing wealth beyond all measure? No. And what’s beyond measure? That’s a sickness. That’s a… — David Mamet Copy Share Image
I have the strong suspicion that when the brain's greed system is in operation, those parts of the brain that regulate ethical… — Semir Zeki Copy Share Image
“Pick a leader who will make their citizens proud. One who will stir the hearts of the people, so that the sons… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
no one wanted to look at the common evils of society. Very few were willing to put aside their own pursuit of… — Ted Dekker Copy Share Image
My take on the whole dot-com bubble was that a lot of people who wanted to make a lot of money got… — Craig Newmark Copy Share Image
It's time for the wealthy to pay their fair share before the middle class becomes the forgotten class.- And it's time for… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Why would men so mismanage their lives? Greed, he thought, was what ruined so many. Greed--the desire to crowd into a moment… — Paz Marquez Benitez Copy Share Image
Mom said that people are interested in birds only in as much as they exhibit human behavior - greed and stupidity and… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
America's not just [about] looking out for yourself, it's not just about greed, it's not just about trying to climb to the… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
There will be selfishness and greed and corruption and narrowness and intolerance in the world tomorrow and tomorrow's tomorrow. But pray God… — Harold Stassen Copy Share Image
Whatever posessions and objects of its desires the lower self may obtain, it hangs on to them, refusing to let them go… — Rumi Copy Share Image
The bourgeoisie is very fond of so-called practical types and novels with happy endings, since they soothe it with the idea that… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
Greed has been with human beings forever. We have a number of things in our species that you would call 'the dark… — Michael Moore Copy Share Image
It is a cause of shame to any member of the human race to be a member of the same species some… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
“That was followed by Sharp saying, “Mick, it is Sharp here. I have an urgent fire mission for you. This is greatly… — Michael G. Kramer Copy Share Image
No living creature is naturally greedy, except from fear of want - or in the case of human beings, from vanity, the… — Thomas More Copy Share Image
Once capital becomes an idol and guides people's decisions, once greed for money presides over the entire socioeconomic system, it ruins society,… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Kaisers and Czars will strut the stage Once more with pomp and greed and rage; Courtly ministers will stop At home and… — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
If development is the new name for peace, war and preparations for war are the major enemy of the healthy development of… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
“The pathology of greed is always greater than the object that greed pursues. Therefore, anything obtained by greed will eventually be killed… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
I am aware that there is a world out there that functions without regard to me. There are wars and budgets and… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
In the bible homosexuality is condemned, but along with divorce and greed and callousness toward poor people. So its elevation to a… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
Peace and the survival of life on earth as we know it are threatened by human activities which lack a commitment to… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
The most terrible thing about materialism, even more terrible than its proneness to violence, is its boredom, from which sex alcohol, drugs,… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
“If anger-pride-deceit-greed occur, let them occur. There is nothing wrong if you have thoughts of bad conduct, do not be afraid, however,… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
Greed has increasingly become a virtue among Wall Street bankers and corporate CEOs in the U.S. Nowhere else in the world do… — Simon Mainwaring Copy Share Image
My major problem with the world is a problem of scarcity in the midst of plenty ... of people starving while there… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
Capitalism is against the things that we say we believe in - democracy, freedom of choice, fairness. It's not about any of… — Michael Moore Copy Share Image
Let us fight to free the world - to do away with national barriers - to do away with greed, with hate… — Charlie Chaplin Copy Share Image
“This cultural Left thinks more about stigma than about money, more about deep and hidden psychosexual motivations than about shallow and evident… — Richard M. Rorty Copy Share Image
“If you think of yourself as a follower of Christ’s teachings, if you consider yourself a good person, you are morally obligated… — Oliver Markus Malloy Copy Share Image
Our economy is based on spending billions to persuade people that happiness is buying things, and then insisting that the only way… — Philip Slater Copy Share Image
“There is no greater beast than envy, no greater thief than fear, no greater enemy than greed, no greater predator than wrath,… — Matshona Dhliwayo Copy Share Image
I am prone to envy. It is one of my three default emotions, the others being greed and rage. I have also… — Augusten Burroughs Copy Share Image
![“America's not just [about] looking out for yourself, it's not just about greed, it's not just about trying to climb to the very top and keep everybody else down. ... Hard work, that's a value. Looking out for one another, that's a value. The idea that we're all in it together and [that] I'm my…” quote by Barack Obama](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/696/barack-obama-17_america_america-s-not-just-about-looking-out-for_1240132.jpg)
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