Greed Quote by Lewis Thomas Download Open image “For total greed, rapacity, heartlessness, and irresponsibility there is nothing to match a nation.” — Lewis Thomas ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Greed Heartlessness Inspirational Irresponsibility Love Nations
No nation deserves to exist if it permits itself to lose the stern and virile virtues; and this without regard to whether the loss… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
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From mere success nothing can be concluded in favor of any nation upon whom it is bestowed. — Francis Atterbury Copy Share Image
The destiny of nations depends on how they nourish themselves. — Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin Copy Share Image
Nations have always good reasons for being what they are, and the best of all is that they cannot be otherwise. — Marquis de Custine Copy Share Image
A nation which makes the final sacrifice for life and freedom does not get beaten. — Mustafa Kemal Ataturk Copy Share Image
There is nothing that sets a nation back as far in civilization as prosperity. — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
No nation has reason to regard itself superior to others by virtue of its innate endowment. — Claude Adrien Helvetius Copy Share Image
What sort of love is this love that we have for countries? What sort of country is it that will ever live up to… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
We shall always be a small minority in the world, but, when a small nation accomplishes something with its limited means, what it achieves… — Tomas Garrigue Masaryk Copy Share Image
Nothing is good for a nation but that which arises from its own core and its own general wants, without apish imitation of another. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“We are endowed with genes which code out our reaction to beavers and otters, maybe our reaction to each other as well. We are… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
We are a spectacular, splendid manifestation of life. We have language. . . . We have affection. We have genes for usefulness, and usefulness… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
“It is not a simple thing to decide where we fit, for at one time or another in our lives we manage to organize… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
It is in our genes to understand the universe if we can, to keep trying even if we cannot, and to be enchanted by… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
If an idea cannot move on its own, pushing it doesn't help; best to let it lie there. — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
I do not agree with this century's fashion of running down the human species as a failed try, a doomed sport. At our worst,… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
It would seem to me... an offense against nature, for us to come on the same scene endowed as we are with the curiosity,… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
The drive to be useful is encoded in our genes. But when we gather in very large numbers, as in the modern nation-state, we… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
I would send the complete works of Johann Sebastian Bach into outer space on the Voyager spacecraft. But that would be boasting. — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
“The future is too interesting and dangerous to be entrusted to any predictable, reliable agency. We need all the fallibility we can get. Most… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
Stephanie could see the greed seep into the watery eyes of her father’s other brother, a horrible little man called Fergus, as he nodded… — Derek Landy Copy Share Image
“Where there are kashays (anger-pride-deceit-greed), there is worldly life. As long as anger-pride-deceit-greed exist; one is a sansaari [living a worldly life] regardless of… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“THE UNFORGIVEN Tell me if you've ever had to deal with these kinds of people: The kind who take and don't give. The kind… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
The law is the collective organization of the individual's right to lawful defense of his life, liberty and property. When it is used for… — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
“The fact that they viewed their wealth as a result of their own hands, without any honor other than lip service being given to… — Lee Goff Copy Share Image
“Be fearful when others are greedy, and be greedy when others are fearful.” — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
avarice breeds envy, a worm that is always gnawing, letting the avaricious enjoy neither their own nor anyone else's good. — St. Catherine of Siena Copy Share Image
“In a similar way, The Art of War pinpoints anger and greed as fundamental causes of defeat.” — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
Who does not know that kings and rulers sprang from men who were ignorant of God, who assumed because of blind greed and intolerable… — Pope Gregory VII Copy Share Image
''And one day when all is gone and mankind is lost, all he leaves is the desert.'' ''For man is his own demise the… — Jeremy Limn Copy Share Image
“Wisdom teaches us that our real enemies are never other living beings. They are ignorance and its minions, including greed, hatred, anger, pride, and… — Guy Newland Copy Share Image
“Suckers think that you cure greed with money, addiction with substances, expert problems with experts, banking with bankers, economics with economists, and debt crises… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image