Activity Quote by E. F. Schumacher

“If greed were not the master of modern man--ably assisted by envy--how could it be that the frenzy of economism does not abate as…

— E.F. Schumacher

A healthy desire for wealth is not greed. It's a desire for life.

— Jen Sincero

What kind of society isn't structured on greed?

— Milton Friedman

“Behind this public glorification of greed, three recent experimental research studies suggest that the academic discipline of economics encourages a culture of greed.”

— Vaddhaka Linn

What kind of society isn't structured on greed? The problem of social organization is how to set up an arrangement under which greed will…

— Milton Friedman

If our economic system is to survive, there has to be a better distribution of wealth ... we can't have a system where some…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Capitalism has been called a system of greed—yet it is the system that raised the standard of living of its poorest citizens to heights…

— Ayn Rand

If we didn't have greed, market economies wouldn't be as innovative as they are. But in my view, greed has to be contained by…

— Nouriel Roubini

“In the same vein, the problem in economic life is supposedly greed, both outside ourselves in the form of all those greedy people and…

— Charles Eisenstein

“In the frenzy of modern life we lose sight of the real value of humanity. People become the sum total of what they produce.…

— Dalai Lama XIV

The wealth of society is created by the workers, peasants and working intellectuals. If they take their destiny into their own hands, follow a…

— Mao Zedong

Greed is but a word jealous men inflict upon the ambitious.

— Marcus Licinius Crassus