Greed Quotes

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Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or wrong. — Richard Armour
I think one of the most pervasive evils in this world is greed and acquiring money for money's sake. Once you have six houses and… — Kevin Bacon
Do not follow vain desires; for verily he who prospers is preserved from lust, greed and anger. — Abu Bakr
The writer's greed is appalling. He wants, or seems to want, everything and practically everybody, in another sense, and at the same time, he needs… — James A. Baldwin
Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell. — Edward Abbey
When the stock market crashed, Franklin Roosevelt got on the television and didn't just talk about the princes of greed. He said, 'Look, here's what… — Joe Biden
Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage. — Ambrose Bierce
The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom. — William Blake
We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office. — Aesop
People often grudge others what they cannot enjoy themselves. — Aesop
It has been said that the love of money is the root of all evil. The want of money is so quite as truly. — Samuel Butler
We all seem to be about aggression and greed. It's a massive pressure that affects us all. — Eric Cantona
Greed is the inventor of injustice as well as the current enforcer. — Julian Casablancas
The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury. — Charlie Chaplin
When morality comes up against profit, it is seldom that profit loses. — Shirley Chisholm
There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it. — Maya Angelou
For greed, all nature is too little. — Seneca the Younger
The will to power, as the modern age from Hobbes to Nietzsche understood it, far from being a characteristic of the strong, is, like envy… — Hannah Arendt
After the demands of the ego and its greed surrendered, the struggle for fulfillment of personal desires lessens; life takes on a new zest like… — Sivananda Radha Saraswati
War is a barbaric tool of the war profiteers and Empires who employ them. War pits young people from the working class against other similarly… — Cindy Sheehan

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