Through the machineries of greed, pettiness, and the abuse of power, love occurs. — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
Greedhas no satiation point, since its consummation does not fill the inner emptiness, boredom, loneliness, and depression it is meant to overcome. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Friendship, obligation and greed are not good enough reasons to write anything. — Stephen Sondheim Copy Share Image
One path is greed, the second is curiosity. With one, the journey is to a reward; with the other, the journey is… — Dale Dauten Copy Share Image
Need' now means wanting someone else's money. 'Greed' means wanting to keep your own. 'Compassion' is when a politician arranges the transfer. — Joseph Sobran Copy Share Image
“The main obstacle to further progress on the resource curse is China, and to a lesser extent India.” — George Soros Copy Share Image
Avarice, or the desire of gain, is a universal passion which operates at all times, at all places, and upon all persons. — David Hume Copy Share Image
Every Man can provide enough to satisfy his woman's needs, but not her greed. — KM II Copy Share Image
“Time is self absorbed, takes what it wants and doesn't return the favor. It is greedy, its pockets full of the lives… — Leigh Hershkovich Copy Share Image
Two forms of government are favorable to the prevalence of falsehood and deceit. Under a Despotism, men are false, treacherous, and deceitful… — Albert Pike Copy Share Image
Our problem mostly in our abuse of each other and the planet is greed. Just the rampant, incredible greed that people have… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
There's a big difference between the National Book Awards and the Academy Awards. At the Academy Awards you can feel the greed… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
Avoid greed and fear. These are the investor's Achilles heels. Keeping all your money in the bank earning 3% interest is just… — Nancy Dunnan Copy Share Image
Money never can be well managed if sought solely through the greed of money for its own sake. In all meanness there… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
'Eureka' was very bad timing. The early 1980s: Reagan and Thatcher were in, greed was good, and here was a film about… — Nicolas Roeg Copy Share Image
The only thing wrong with the NBA - or any other professional sport, for that matter - is a wild epidemic of… — Hunter S. Thompson 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
“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
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
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
“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
“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
“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
There are 6 reasons that a person does anything: Love, faith, greed, boredom, fear... revenge. — Ally Carter Copy Share Image
Even in a time of elephantine vanity and greed, one never has to look far to see the campfires of gentle people. — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
The greed of the billionaire class has got to end and we are going to end it for them. — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
Such gluttony second to none Almost ended fatally When a bone choked a wolf as he gulped what he ate — Jean de La Fontaine Copy Share Image
When there is firm conquest over covetousness, they who have conquered it wake up to the how and why of life. — Patanjali Copy Share Image
We have always known that heedless self interest was bad morals, we now know that it is bad economics. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“When the human being says: 'It is not true...' He may mean: 'I don't know about it, so I think it is… — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
My ultimate goal is to be a world champion. Money's nice too. You add the temptation and the greed aspect in there.… — Darren Elkins Copy Share Image
I'm a joker who has understood his epoch and has extracted all he possibly could from the stupidity, greed and vanity of… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
“A system is corrupt when it is strictly profit-driven, not driven to serve the best interests of its people.” — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
If you measure success by the amount of things you own, then you may end up forever alone. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
They who in folly or mere greed Enslaved religion, markets, laws, Borrow our language now and bid Us to speak up in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Fate might forgive greed, or gluttony, or even bloodlust, but it never ignores being ignored.” — Erik Bundy Copy Share Image
“Hoarding kings are to be pitied in their lifetime when they can't take their riches to the grave. - Gwallawg is Other ” — Taliesin Copy Share Image
Power, greed, and perhaps more than anything, ego, are powerful emotions and motivators. — Trish Regan Copy Share Image
Dramatic and emotional trading experiences tend to be negative. Pride is a great banana peel, as are hope, fear, and greed. My… — Ed Seykota Copy Share Image
