"For total greed, rapacity, heartlessness, and irresponsibility there……" — Lewis Thomas
"For total greed, rapacity, heartlessness, and irresponsibility there is nothing to match a nation."
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130 Quotes by Lewis Thomas
Lewis Thomas has 130 quotes on this site.
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When committees gather, each member is necessarily an actor, uncontrollably acting out the part of himself, reading the lines that…
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Animals, even plants, lie to each other all the time, and we could restrict the research to them, putting off…
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The human brain is the most public organ on the face of the earth, open to everything, sending out messages…
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I cannot think of a single field in biology or medicine in which we can claim genuine understanding, and it…
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Cats are a standing rebuke to behavioral scientists wanting to know how the minds of animals work. The mind of…
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I am entitled to say, if I like, that awareness exists in all the individual creatures on the planet-worms, sea…
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I do not understand modern physics at all, but my colleagues who know a lot about the physics of very…
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It is in our genes to understand the universe if we can, to keep trying even if we cannot, and…
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The overwhelming astonishment, the queerest structure we know about so far in the whole universe, the greatest of all cosmological…
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It is the very strangeness of nature that makes science engrossing. That ought to be at the center of science…
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It is not so bad being ignorant if you are totally ignorant; the hard thing is knowing in some detail…
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Chemical waste products are the droppings of science.
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More 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…
— Richard Armour
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I think one of the most pervasive evils in this world is greed and acquiring money for money's sake. Once…
— Kevin Bacon
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Do not follow vain desires; for verily he who prospers is preserved from lust, greed and anger.
— Abu Bakr
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The writer's greed is appalling. He wants, or seems to want, everything and practically everybody, in another sense, and at…
— James A. Baldwin
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Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell.
— Edward Abbey
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When the stock market crashed, Franklin Roosevelt got on the television and didn't just talk about the princes of greed.…
— Joe Biden
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Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.
— Ambrose Bierce
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The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.
— William Blake
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We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.
— Aesop
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People often grudge others what they cannot enjoy themselves.
— Aesop
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It has been said that the love of money is the root of all evil. The want of money is…
— Samuel Butler
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We all seem to be about aggression and greed. It's a massive pressure that affects us all.
— Eric Cantona
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