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
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
“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
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 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
That's the power of the good con artist: the ability to identify your deepest need and exploit it. It's not about honesty… — Maria Konnikova 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
[Donald Trump] has nothing to show for it but fear in every way. To people who are sick, fear, to people who… — Nancy Pelosi Copy Share Image
The law has been perverted, and the powers of the state have become perverted along with it. The law has not only… — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
“The inflated ego of the tyrant is a curse to himself and his world – no matter how his affairs may prosper.… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
I would sooner be robbed by a fan than a company. The fan may be broke and have but one choice. There… — Mickey Newbury Copy Share Image
At this season of the year we draw close to Good Friday. All the eyes of the world will turn back to… — Tommy Douglas Copy Share Image
“Money is sacred as everyone knows... So then must be the hunger for it and the means we use to obtain it.… — Barry Unsworth Copy Share Image
Every single one of the major world faiths, whether we're talking about Hinduism, Buddhism, Confucianism, Darwinism, Judaism, Christianity and Islam, have all… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
... these are the two factors that lead to the destruction of our environment: money and time-or to say it another way,… — Francis Schaeffer Copy Share Image
Until a few months ago we had a code of honor, and even the worst ruffians behaved with decency. You could leave… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
If we have any hope for survival of the music that we all love, compassion must replace name-calling, fairness must replace greed,… — John Mellencamp Copy Share Image
In early 2008, before the criminal greed of America's mortgage and investment bank industry nearly destroyed the world's economy, the balance sheet… — Neil Macdonald Copy Share Image
By an increase in anger, warfare arises. By an increase of greed, famine arises. By an increase of stupidity, pestilence arises. Because… — Nichiren Copy Share Image
“A compass calibrated by my greed is a rather shrewd way to legitimize my agenda. However, true north on a compass such… — Craig D. Lounsbrough 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
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
“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
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
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
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
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
“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 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
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
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
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
I think so much of neoliberalism and capitalism has caused people to live in a state of greed, fear and consumption that… — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
If you talk to most businessmen, they'll say that what they do is for the public good, but you know they're just… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
“Rather than a tale of greed, the history of luxury could more accurately be read as a record of emotional trauma. It… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
The writer's greed is appalling. He wants, or seems to want, everything and practically everybody, in another sense, and at the same… — James A. Baldwin Copy Share Image
Cruelty was the devil, and most people were, in one way or another, cruel. Tyranny, suppression, persecution, torture, slavery, war, neglect -… — Rose Macaulay Copy Share Image
The organization and constant onward sweep of this movement exemplifies the resentment of the many toward the selfishness, greed and the neglect… — John L. Lewis Copy Share Image
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