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Greed Quotes 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.
Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's need, but not every man's greed
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.
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.
To greed, all nature is insufficient.
Hell has three gates: lust, anger, and greed
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
The world is burning in the fire of desire, in greed, arrogance and excessive ego.
Backstabbing, gossiping,greed and power games are a sign of an unhealthy organization.
There is enough in the world for everyone's need, but not enough for everyone's greed.
The prodigality of millionaires is comparable only to their greed of gain. Let some whim or passion seize them and money is of no account. In fact these Croesuses find whims and passions harder to come by than gold.
Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's need, but not every man's greed
Grief and greed are as inextricably entwined as love and marriage should be.
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
It is greed to do all the talking but not to want to listen at all
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.
Curst greed of gold, what crimes thy tyrant power has caused
Greed is a fat demon with a small mouth and whatever you feed it is never enough.
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.
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.
Similarlyóalthough to a somewhat lesser degreeóconceit, self-indulgence, and greed lead to physical illness, or lack of well-being.
Calm self-confidence is as far from conceit as the desire to earn a decent living is remote from greed.
Lust and greed are more gullible than innocence.
What our country deserves from everyone who enjoys its fruits and freedoms is a little more gratitude -- and a lot less greed
Men who fear the strenuous life believe in that cloistered life which saps the hardy virtues in a nation as it saps them in the individual, or else they are wedded to the base spirit of gain and greed which recognize in commercialism the be-all and end-all of national life, instead of realizing that, though an indispensable element, it is, after all, but one of many elements that go to make up true national greatness
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