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~ It's time for greatness -- not for greed. It's a time for idealism -- not ideology. It is a time not just for compassionate words, but compassionate action. ~

Marian Wright Edelman

~ The history of an oppressed people is hidden in the lies and the agreed myth of its conquerors. ~

Meridel Le Sueur

~ Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's need, but not every man's greed ~

Mahatma Gandhi

~ It is greed to do all the talking but not to want to listen at all ~

Democritus

~ The greed of gain has no time or limit to its capaciousness. Its one object is to produce and consume. It has pity neither for beautiful nature nor for living human beings. It is ruthlessly ready without a moment's hesitation to crush beauty and life out of them, molding them into money. ~

Rabindranath Tagore

~ To greed, all nature is insufficient. ~

Seneca

~ To greed, all nature is insufficient. ~

Seneca

~ It is greed to do all the talking but not to want to listen at all ~

Democritus

~ The media have just buried the last yuppie, a pathetic creature who had not heard the news that the great pendulum of public consciousness has just swung from Greed to Compassion and from Tex-Mex to meatballs ~

Barbara Ehrenreich

~ All human suffering springs from unbridled desire. Unless one extricates oneself from the clutch of greed, one will not free himself from the fetters of sorrow. ~

Vellupillai Pirapakaran

~ The world is burning in the fire of desire, in greed, arrogance and excessive ego. ~

Sri Guru Granth Sahib

~ The ignorant mind, with its infinite afflictions, passions, and evils, is rooted in the three poisons. Greed, anger, and delusion. ~

Bodhidharma

~ It's time for greatness -- not for greed. It's a time for idealism -- not ideology. It is a time not just for compassionate words, but compassionate action. ~

Marian Wright Edelman

~ Grief and greed are as inextricably entwined as love and marriage should be. ~

Ann Kent

~ Two such as you with such a master speed cannot be parted nor be swept away from one another once you are agreed that life is only life forevermore together wing to wing and oar to oar. ~

Robert Frost

~ Labor Day differs in every essential from other holidays of the year in any country. All other holidays are in a more or less degree connected with conflict and battles of man’s prowess over man, of strife and discord for greed and power, of glories achieved by one nation over another. Labor Day is devoted to no man, living or dead, to no sect, race or nation. ~

Samual Gempers

~ What does labor want? We want more schoolhouses and less jails; more books and less arsenals; more learning and less vice; more leisure and less greed; more justice and less revenge; in fact, more of the opportunities to cultivate our better natures ~

Samuel Gompers

~ For greed all nature is too little. ~

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

~ The lusts and greeds of the body scandalize the Soul; but it has to come to heel. ~

Logan Pearsall Smith

~ We are all born brave, trusting and greedy, and most of us remain greedy. ~

Mignon McLaughlin

~ Oh, the jealousy, the greed is the unraveling. It's the unraveling and it undoes all the joy that could be. ~

Joni Mitchell

~ Hell has three gates: lust, anger, and greed ~

Bhagavad Gita

~ Greed is a fat demon with a small mouth and whatever you feed it is never enough. ~

Janwillem van de Wetering

~ Money is neither my god nor my devil. It is a form of energy that tends to make us more of who we already are, whether it's greedy or loving. ~

Dan Millman

~ If you take away ideology, you are left with a case by case ethics which in practice ends up as me first, me only, and in rampant greed. ~

Richard A. Nelson

~ If you take away ideology, you are left with a case by case ethics which in practice ends up as me first, me only, and in rampant greed." ~

Nelson, Richard A.

~ Though I like the various forms of football in the world, I don't think they begin to compare with these two great Anglo-Saxon ball games for sophisticated elegance and symbolism. Baseball and cricket are beautiful and highly stylized medieval war substitutes, chess made flesh, a mixture of proud chivalry and base - in both senses - greed. With football we are back to the monotonous clashing armor of the brontosaurus. ~

John Fowles

~ We still find the greedy hand of government thrusting itself into every corner and crevice of industry, and grasping at the spoil of the multitude. Invention is continually exercised to furnish new pretenses for revenue and taxation. It watches prosperity as its prey and permits none to escape without a tribute ~

Thomas Paine

~ Similarlyóalthough to a somewhat lesser degreeóconceit, self-indulgence, and greed lead to physical illness, or lack of well-being. ~

Elbert Hubbard

~ Calm self-confidence is as far from conceit as the desire to earn a decent living is remote from greed. ~

Channing Pollock

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