“The things we love the most are the most disfiguring. Such is our greed for them.” — Nathan Hill Copy Share Image
“You will not realize the absolute supreme Self (parmatma) unless the weakness departs. Anger, pride, deceit and greed are the weaknesses.” — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“Gold conjures up a mist about a man, more destructive of all his old senses and lulling to his feelings than the… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“By now, with all our modern technology, there should be no poverty left on earth.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Meditation is the alchemy of transforming. The unconscious into the conscious. It gives you a tremendous power, Far greater than anger, greed… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“The greedy bastard, thought Weintî. He knows perfectly well that twenty shekels is the going rate for a female household slave of… — Betty Cross Copy Share Image
If as an environmentalist we are against anything... it is against the arrogance of power and the most obcene ways it shows… — John Denver Copy Share Image
Well, once you get involved with bloodsport litigation, you can not only get drunk on your own greed but start to believe… — Jello Biafra Copy Share Image
“I know now that it's the sweet, sweating smell of hope, which is opposite of hate; and it's the sour, stifled smell… — Gregory David Roberts 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
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
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
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
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
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
“We are only able to disrespect, mistreat, and harm one another when we forget that the other person is us; when we… — Joseph P. Kauffman Copy Share Image
Chicago's downtown seems to me to constitute, all in all, the best-looking twentieth-century city, the city where contemporary technique has best been… — Jan Morris Copy Share Image
“Over recent years, [there's been] a strong tendency to require assessment of children and teachers so that [teachers] have to teach to… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I mean people -- people don't get -- they don't get smarter about things that get as basic as greed and you… — Howard Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
“Ask yourself something. Have you ever thought about why guys want you gone the next day? It’s not because they’ve got things… — Fisher Amelie Copy Share Image
Whether it is under the guise of survival and self-defence or directly expressed through dominion and greed, the failure to recognize the… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
The frequency of anger attracts the frequency of anger, the frequency of greed attracts the frequency of greed, and so on. This… — Gary Zukav Copy Share Image
“The real problem is I'm greedy. I want complete, utter, unceasing bliss. But I don't want to fall into it either. If… — Sergio De La Pava Copy Share Image
What in the rising man was industry and economy, becomes in the rich man parsimony and avarice. — Sarah Josepha Hale Copy Share Image
“There is no glory in killing a man because it satisfies someone else’s greed.” — Chris Dietzel Copy Share Image
It isn't that greed's increased. What's increased is the realization that you've got a free field to reach out for what you'd… — Paul Samuelson Copy Share Image
Man's greed to obtain something for nothing has never yet been able to content itself with a moderate profit. — Will C. Barnes Copy Share Image
As the scale of football finances increases, we see and hear of the decadence, irresponsibility and greed of the modern player. — Simon Jordan Copy Share Image
“Virtually all organisations known to you work largely by means of your greed.” — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
If workers struggle for higher wages, this is hailed as "social gains", if businessmen struggle for higher profits, this is damned as… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“A motto of many politicians, public servants and money bags: Ask not 'What can I do for you?' but 'What can I… — H.M. Forester Copy Share Image
The corner where struggle & greed fight. We write songs about wrong cause it's hard to see right. — Common Copy Share Image
“If you think you're using real money forget it. You're just using the adult version of play money.” — Anthony T. Hincks Copy Share Image
“Profit should never come at the cost of human blood. Any government that places profit before people is pure evil.” — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
Greed is an imperfection that defiles the mind; hate is an imperfection that defiles the mind; delusion is an imperfection that defiles… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
“Mankind's obsession with money and greed has them going down a one way street to their demise.” — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
If you can't afford to give something away, you don't own it, it owns you. If you can't afford to sell it,… — Rock Cowles Copy Share Image
“Ignorance disconnects us. Envy separates us. Greed divides us. Goodness connects us. Faith strengthens us. Love unites us.” — Matshona Dhliwayo Copy Share Image
We are all born to love people and use things. Unfortunately, we grow to love things and use people. — T. Rafael Cimino Copy Share Image
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