In a society governed passively by free markets and free elections, organized greed always defeats disorganized democracy. — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
“Love - massively destructive to hatred, selfishness and greed. Use liberally.” — Cathryn Louis Copy Share Image
Avarice is a cursed vice: offer a man enough gold, and he will part with his own small hoard of food, however… — Lucian Copy Share Image
“Money is a form of alchemy, [...] it turns kind, normal people into greed-mongers, intent only on acquisitiveness.” — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
“that suffering is the result of craving expressed through the Three Poisons: greed, hatred, and delusion.” — Rick Hanson Copy Share Image
“Fear and confession for the fear of unknown,business to fulfill greeds, limited knowledge makes religion for humans” — Er.Teji Copy Share Image
“Maybe it isn’t corruption or greed that makes you cowardly. Maybe it’s not weakness, suffering, or even fear. Maybe it is love.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“If my prayers have devolved into being nothing more than reciting a list of things that I want, I might as well… — Craig D. Lounsbrough 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
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
“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
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
Everything I had been taught to regard as a vice - and I still regard them as vices - under Thatcherism was… — Glenda Jackson Copy Share Image
what man calls civilizationalways results in desertsman is never on the squarehe uses up the fat and greenery of the eartheach generation… — Don Marquis Copy Share Image
Stephanie could see the greed seep into the watery eyes of her father’s other brother, a horrible little man called Fergus, as… — Derek Landy Copy Share Image
It is this world, a world where cruise ships throw away more food in a day than most residents of Port-au-Prince see… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
“From our immersion in scarcity arise the habits of scarcity. From the scarcity of time arises the habit of hurrying. From the… — Charles Eisenstein Copy Share Image
“The great hatred of capitalism in the hearts of the oppressed, ancient and modern, I think, stems not merely from the ensuing… — Victor Davis Hanson 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
What does labor want? We want more schoolhouses and less jails; more books and less arsenals; more learning and less vice; more… — Samuel Gompers Copy Share Image
I don't care if you're a parent giving to a child, a worker to a company, or a romantic to a lover,… — John Frederick Demartini Copy Share Image
“As I get older I can see the patterns, the ugly corporate face behind the great machine. The sad and over competitive… — R.M. Engelhardt 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
“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
“I guess it comes down to greed. You don’t pay folks, you make more money. That and thinking one race wasn’t as… — David Baldacci Copy Share Image
The be-all and end-all of life should not be to get rich, but to enrich the world. — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
The worlds worst crimes are not committed by the hungry people; they are committed by the over-fed! — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Ungodliness is confronting the society and everyone seems to be at its mercy because of greed for pleasure.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
“Neither the world nor one’s actions cause obstructions; kashays (inner anger, pride, deceit, greed) cause obstruction!” — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
I think most people are very, very much motivated by sex - greed, sex, and hunger. — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
“We live in a world where we give our pounds to those who have too much and our pennies to those who… — Dean Griffiths Copy Share Image
The lusts and greeds of the body scandalize the Soul; but it has to come to heel. — Logan Pearsall Smith Copy Share Image
Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
“If you keep on gathering things in this world, you will come across someone who will ‘eat it up’. Therefore, utilize it… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“If it’s about me, I can be assured that there will be a bunch of empty chairs in the auditorium of my… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
One of the weaknesses of our age is our apparent inability to distinguish our needs from our greeds. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
How shrunk, how dwindled, in our times Creation's mighty seed - For Man has broke the Fellowship With murder, lust, and greed. — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“We cherish reprobates, not for their cruelty, but for their little show of patronage.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
I pay low wages. I can take advantage of that. We're going to be successful, but the basis is a very low-wage,… — Sam Walton Copy Share Image
We shall have to practise to lead our life on the basis of our needs, not under the influence of our greed. — Lobsang Tenzin Copy Share Image