The cause of all these evils was the lust for power arising from greed and ambition; and from these passions proceeded the… — Thucydides Copy Share Image
Are you not ashamed of caring so much for the making of money and for fame and prestige, when you neither think… — Socrates Copy Share Image
It is greed or financial difficulty that makes people fix matches, not gaining an edge over rivals, so it is different from… — Neil Robertson Copy Share Image
A wise man should order his interests, and set them all in their proper places. This order is often troubled by greed,… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Corporate greed, corporate bullying cannot be tolerated - it's time for a global rule of law to guarantee fair trade, rights, minimum… — Sharan Burrow Copy Share Image
Giving with glad and generous hearts has a way of routing out the tough old miser within us. Even the poor need… — Richard J. Foster Copy Share Image
Laissez-faire, Supply-and-demand, - one begins to be weary of all that. Leave all to egoism, to ravenous greed of money, of pleasure,… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
“Sometimes the greed and malice of what he sees appalls him so much he thinks he must’ve misunderstood; he looks again, and… — Sarah Perry 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
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
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 All life has been replaced by blackened, poisoned desolation.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
Even without love, I can live fine alone. It's not like I've always had what I wanted. In my life not even… — Ma-Roo Copy Share Image
“World leaders, global icons, role models, celebrities, presidents, politicians, and other influential figures often avoid speaking about or involving themselves in issues… — De philosopher DJ Kyos Copy Share Image
The nobility of the human spirit grows harder for me to believe in. War, zealotry, greed, malls, narcissism. I see a backhanded… — Mary Roach 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
But love, like the sun that it is, sets afire and melts everything. what greed and privilege to build up over whole… — Jose Marti Copy Share Image
I didn't do it because of the underlying greed that's prevailing, but it is about greed, doing the right thing at the… — Danny DeVito Copy Share Image
The dull, purblind folly of the very rich men, their greed and arrogance, and the corruption in business and politics, have tended… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
It's time for greatness - not for greed. It's a time for idealism - not ideology. It is a time not just… — Marian Wright Edelman Copy Share Image
There is more in you of good than you know, child of the kindly West. Some courage and some wisdom, blended in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I don't believe that economic equality is possible; indeed some measure of inequality is essential for the spirit of envy and keeping… — Boris Johnson Copy Share Image
Original sin, the true original sin, is the blind destruction for the sake of greed of this natural paradise which lies all… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
I think what the secretary Hillary Clinton has recognized is the American people are extremely angry about the power of Wall Street,… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
In 'Guru,' the business aspect is more of a layer and sub-text... to me, Harshad Mehta's story is a tragedy, a classic… — Vijay Krishna Acharya Copy Share Image
I think war is based in greed and there are huge karmic retributions that will follow. I think war is never the… — Sheryl Crow Copy Share Image
“People’s lives are forever controlled by two emotions: fear and greed. Offer them more money and they continue the cycle by increasing… — Robert T. Kiyosaki Copy Share Image
It's a spiritual malnutrition tied to a moral constipation, where people have a sense of what's right and what's good. It's just… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
Religion as a vital issue is dead except on paper, and whatever beauty-baiting the future may witness will be the work of… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
To those supporters who were told that I abandoned them, that is untrue. I abandoned greed, corruption, and compromise, never you, and… — Lauryn Hill Copy Share Image
“Why do you think Apple can become the first trillion dollar company in history, not because they can innovate, but because they… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
I still play music for the same reasons as when I first started; for the energy, the feeling, the interaction with others.… — Jason Newsted Copy Share Image
War makes monsters of men, you once said to me Todd. Well, so does too much knowledge. Too much knowledge of your… — Patrick Ness Copy Share Image
“To constantly edit our ethics in order to keep pace with our preferences is to edit ethics that don’t exist in order… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
The agrarian crisis [in India] is an unnecessary tragedy, resulting directly from an economics of greed and a politics driven by the… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
“There is no fire like lust, no sickness like hatred, no sorrow like separateness, no joy like peace. 203No disease is worse… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
White Pond and Walden are great crystals on the surface of the earth, Lakes of Light… They are too pure to have… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“ Yahweh: You've been unhappy because you've desired things that cannot be. Lucifer: That's what desire IS. The need for what we… — Mike Carey Copy Share Image
Cultivate peace first in the garden of your heart by removing the weeds of lust, hatred, greed, selfishness, and jealousy. Then only… — Sivananda Copy Share Image
But at a certain point, and I don't really know... people have asked me this. I don't know exactly what it was… — Peter Bogdanovich Copy Share Image