You can be hostile to greed. You can be hostile to income inequality. You can be for raising raises... but you can't… — Tim Ryan Copy Share Image
“Some needs superseded our own wellbeing, and we let ourselves be destroyed by greed and results of our own careless mistakes. We… — Gayendra Abeywardane Copy Share Image
Market values are fixed only in part by balance sheets and income statements; much more by the hopes and fears of humanity;… — Gerald M. Loeb Copy Share Image
It is not greedy to enjoy a good dinner, any more than it is to enjoy a good concert. But I do… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
In a perfect world perhaps we would all see more clearly. But this is not a perfect world, and it is enough… — Kent Nerburn Copy Share Image
“Why in the world am I not finding what I want? It may be that I’m not looking for things where they… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“any significant and lasting transformations of society require significant changes in the moral fiber of individual human beings; for as long as… — Dalai Lama XIV Copy Share Image
It was the kind of blind, gulping, insensate greed that you associate with some milk-eyed creature in a volcanic fissure at the… — Boris Johnson Copy Share Image
Beyond all explanations which a good brain can give, why do we choose the worse and not the better, why hate rather… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Greed, envy, sloth, pride and gluttony: these are not vices anymore. No, these are marketing tools. Lust is our way of life.… — Jon Foreman Copy Share Image
“...The world needed to suffer in order to understand the simplest of universal principles, the unity of man with man and with… — Walter Russell Copy Share Image
Capitalism is an organized system to guarantee that greed becomes the primary force of our economic system and allows the few at… — Michael Moore Copy Share Image
If a wave of service sweeps over the land, catching everyone in its enthusiasm, it will be able to wipe off the… — Sathya Sai Baba Copy Share Image
“Because life is robust, Because life is bigger than equations, stronger than money, stronger than guns and poison and bad zoning policy,… — Kim Stanley Robinson Copy Share Image
Still another danger is represented by those who, paying lip service to democracy and the common welfare, in their insatiable greed for… — Henry A. Wallace Copy Share Image
“The ugliest thing in America is greed, the lust for power and domination, the lunatic ideology of perpetual Growth - with a… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Meditation is like the moon: it transforms the energy of lust into love, anger into compassion, greed into sharing, aggressiveness into receptivity,… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Unless the church is equipping believers to embrace the values and vision of the kingdom of God and turn away from the… — Alan Hirsch Copy Share Image
As Earth warriors, we choose to be participants in the ancient battle between good and evil. On our side stand the waters… — Rod Coronado Copy Share Image
I think nonviolence and the mediation of conflict by means of respecting civility must be promoted. But being the kind of beings… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
A shrewd man has to arrange his interests in order of importance and deal with them one by one; but often our… — François De La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
“Charlotte shrugged. “In the end, greed makes the world go round,” she proclaimed. “Although, revenge isn’t very far behind either.” She chuckled… — Ada Adams Copy Share Image
When trying a case [the famous judge] L. Cassius never failed to inquire "Who gained by it?" Man's character is such that… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
I have nothing against rich brothers and sisters. Pray for 'em every day. But callousness and indifference, greed and avarice is something… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
I feel terrible about corporate greed. Growing up in a household that was a little more humble and didn't put so much… — Chloe Sevigny Copy Share Image
If aspects of the person remain undigested-cut off, denied, projected, rejected, indulged, or otherwise unassimilated-they become the points around which the core… — Mark Epstein Copy Share Image
“Greed is a way of avoiding making choices: if I have everything I don't have to choose what I want. And choosing… — Adam Phillips Copy Share Image
For Democrats to win, they're going to have to address the needs of working people. They're going to have to address the… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
In most cases, obviously, soldiers fought because a government drafted them and gave them a rifle. At every point too, we see… — Philip Jenkins Copy Share Image
Just remember, without discipline, a clear strategy, and a concise plan, the speculator will fall into all the emotional pitfalls of the… — Jesse Lauriston Livermore Copy Share Image
“Last night I watched the weather channel, as is my habit. Elsewhere in the world there are floods: roiling brown water, bloated… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“all the operations of capitalism were as meaningless to him as the rites of a primitive religion, as barbaric, as elaborate, and… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Stand in despair anywhere old-growth forest has been clear-felled. All life has been replaced by blackened, poisoned desolation. Animals and birds have… — Peter Cundall Copy Share Image
"The ultimate recession": a recession caused not by failed regulation and bankers' greed, but by very high oil prices, food and water… — Jonathon Porritt Copy Share Image
How to forgive a murderer? First, by differentiating his sufferings from his exploitation of death to ease them. For his sufferings -… — D. Patrick Miller Copy Share Image
The Fall of the House of Zeus is a riveting American saga of ambition, cunning, greed, corruption, high life and low life… — Tom Brokaw Copy Share Image
“Throughout the 1980's, we did hear too much about individual gain and the ethos of selfishness and greed. We did not hear… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It's a mystery to me We have a greed with which we have agreed You think you have to want more than… — Eddie Vedder Copy Share Image
Sitting with a deck of cards in your hand all day is an obsession. Visiting print shops and bookstores and libraries is… — Ricky Jay Copy Share Image
“He wondered about the people in houses like those. They would be, for example, small clerks, shop-assistants, commercial travellers, insurance touts, tram… — George Orwell Copy Share Image