Greed Quote by Walter Russell

“He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it, namely, that, in order to make a man or a boy covet…

— Mark Twain

“In the heroic effort of the individual to attain universality, in the attempt to transcend the curse of individuation and to become the one…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“A man reduced to despair by a series of misfortunes feels wearied of life, but is still so far in possession of his reason…

— Immanuel Kant

“There are no principles; there are only events. There is no good and bad, there are only circumstances. The superior man espouses events and…

— Honoré de Balzac

“There are two sides to the life of every man: there is his individual existence which is free in proportion as his interests are…

— Leo Tolstoy

If the world is an aggregate of relatively independent regions, then any assumption of universal laws is false and a demand for universal norms…

— Paul Feyerabend

“The first law of everything is that the world don’t usually give a fuck about our problems — we are our own little thing…

— Junot Díaz

“At present we have no clear grasp of the principle that every man should do the work for which he is fitted by nature!”

— Dorothy L. Sayers

“Let sincere men and women the world over unite in earnest effort to supplant feelings of selfishness, hatred, animosity, greed, by the law of…

— David O. McKay

“The great human law that in the end recognizes and rewards merit is everlasting and universal.”

— Booker T. Washington

“We are taught by great actions that the universe is the property of every individual in it. Every rational creature has all nature for…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“in general, from the violation of a few simple laws of humanity arises the wretchedness of mankind - that as a species we have…

— Edgar Allan Poe