“i used to think i was broken because i never once spent my daydreams plucking swollen pomegranates from someone else's tree. -… — Amanda Lovelace Copy Share Image
To talk about balance, it's easier to talk about what's out of balance. And I think anytime that you have any disease,… — Ricky Williams Copy Share Image
“As the authors of the studies point out, these effects suggest that economics education may have serious consequences for students’ attitudes towards… — Vaddhaka Linn Copy Share Image
Let us wage a moral and political war against the billionaires and corporate leaders, on Wall Street and elsewhere, whose policies and… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
We need to move beyond the demonisation of overpaid traders ... In finance and economics, ill-designed policy is a more powerful force… — Adair Turner, Baron Turner of Ecchinswell Copy Share Image
Farmed animals are not future Buddhas donating their flesh out of compassion for those of us who have developed a craving for… — Norm Phelps Copy Share Image
We've got to start also holding people accountable, and we've got to reward people who succeed. But somehow in Washington today -… — John McCain Copy Share Image
Oppression is often the consequence, but seldom or never the means of riches; and tho' avarice will preserve a man from being… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
They have plundered the world, stripping naked the land in their hunger… they are driven by greed, if their enemy be rich;… — Tacitus Copy Share Image
“In treating people as less important than things, work becomes both demoralised and demoralising and we become blind to the moral content… — Margaret Heffernan Copy Share Image
His response is more than sensible. It reflects his understanding that evens unfold as a refelction of precise karmic order and that… — Sylvia Boorstein Copy Share Image
“God is not glorified when we keep for ourselves (no matter how thankfully) what we ought to be using to alleviate the… — John Piper Copy Share Image
I am convinced that imprisonment is a way of pretending to solve the problem of crime. It does nothing for the victims… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
“Conscious evolution of the free enterprise system happens when we realize that neither the heavy handedness of government nor the greed of… — Said Elias Dawlabani Copy Share Image
“The Utopians wonder how any man should be so much taken with the glaring doubtful lustre of a jewel or a stone,… — Thomas More Copy Share Image
Once we were happy in our own country and we were seldom hungry, for then the two-leggeds and the four-leggeds lived together… — Black Elk Copy Share Image
My head can get to murder and rape for profit because I can understand greed as a human motive, but I cannot… — Donna Leon Copy Share Image
It was left for the present age to endow Covetousness with glamour on a big scale, and to give it a title… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
These are roots of all evil, hatred and greed, for money, for the construction and for the sale of weapons. This should… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
As humans try to evolve out of greed, let's put aside some wild places, protected lands, protected farms, things like that, since… — Elizabeth Lesser Copy Share Image
I certainly understand that we're all trying to make a living, but I'm not thinking about that when I'm making it. And… — Aimee Mann Copy Share Image
We are not terrorists. We're not criminals, we're not motivated by money, we're not motivated by greed. Nor are we simply nice… — Susan Rosenberg Copy Share Image
We already have - thanks to technology, development, skills, the efficiency of our work - enough resources to satisfy all human needs.… — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
“Did you think a wishing well would be full of noble feelings? A wish is pure desire, Lizzy. You're old enough to… — Jake Wyatt Copy Share Image
There are so many ways a family can unravel. All it takes is a tiny slash of selfishness, a rip of greed,… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
The fact that monasticism preceded the identification of greed as a primal sin is an important reminder that our very ability to… — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share Image
The Good News means we can stop lying to ourselves. The sweet sound of amazing grace saves us from the necessity of… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
Why are we in this mess, now facing the prospect of economic armageddon? It's because the prevailing characteristic has been greed, and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The music industry's actions at the time of 9/11 and since have been actions driven by patriotism in most instances, and greed… — Ronnie James Dio Copy Share Image
“Humans are very intelligent in inventing new ideas to gamble and pursue financial greed. Every financial trading, instruments and systems looks like… — Aditya Ajmera Copy Share Image
“Let me leave you with a positive thought. William Shakespeare once wrote: “The more I give to thee, the more I have,… — Etienne de L'Amour Copy Share Image
“When does one experience the ‘Samadhi sukh’ (happiness of the blissful state)? When one does not want anything, when the entire ‘tuber’… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
Let us work without desire for name or fame or rule over others. Let us be free from the triple bonds of… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
If we didn't have greed, market economies wouldn't be as innovative as they are. But in my view, greed has to be… — Nouriel Roubini Copy Share Image
Baseball and cricket are beautiful and highly stylized medieval war substitutes, chess made flesh, a mixture of proud chivalry and base-in both… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
“Sometimes, Casey, people spend their whole lives living for a dream they can't have. And these people are so busy, so greedy… — Sarah Rubin Copy Share Image
Ours is an upbeat, a hurried, hasty beat. It keeps pressing us to go farther, to include everything so that we can… — Agnes de Mille Copy Share Image
I do nothing but go about persuading you all, old and young alike, not to take thought for your persons or your… — Socrates Copy Share Image
There are some sordid minds, formed of slime and filth, to whom interest and gain are what glory and virtue are to… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
Since time immemorial and pre-industrial, 'greed' has been the accusation hurled at the rich by the concrete-bound illiterates who were unable to… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
