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Greed Quotes

Buddhism talks about the possibility of transforming greed, hatred, and delusion. But sometimes need turns into greed.

Greed Sometimes Hatred Need Delusion

Do not follow vain desires; for verily he who prospers is preserved from lust, greed and anger.

Anger Greed Lust Follow Who Desires

America needs young people to be inspired to choose sacrifice over greed.

Sacrifice People Greed Choose Young

Fear and greed are potent motivators. When both of these forces push in the same direction, virtually no human being can resist.

Fear Direction Greed Push Human

Governments are composed of human beings, and all of the frailties that humans possess are absorbed into these governments and become active within these governments. Hatred, anger, jealousy, fear, greed, distrust and the whole host of afflictions that humans must bear, lurk just beneath the surface of civility displayed by 'government.'

Fear Anger Government Jealousy Greed

The desire for money may be an indication of greed, but I want to argue that greed is a much more subtle vice than simply the desire to be rich.

Stanley Hauerwas

Money Rich Greed Desire Want More

If we destroy the biosphere, then mankind will die. We all waste our time worrying about stupid wars and petty jealousy and greed, and all the time, we're sitting on a time bomb.

Time Jealousy Stupid Greed Die Will

Greed has been with human beings forever. We have a number of things in our species that you would call 'the dark side,' and greed is one of them. If you don't put certain structures in place or restrictions on those parts of our being that come from that dark place, then it gets out of control.

Control Greed You Dark Place Human

Christopher Finazzo had a great job that paid him millions of dollars, but this honest living was apparently not enough to satisfy his greed.

Great Job Greed Enough Living Him

Supermarket tabloids and celebrity gossip shows are not just innocently shallow entertainment, but a fundamental part of a much larger movement that involves apathy, greed and hierarchy.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Greed Gossip Celebrity Movement Just

The basis of tragedy is man's helplessness against disease, war and death; the basis of comedy is man's helplessness against vanity (the vanity of love, greed, lust, power).

Love Power Death Man War Greed

What we're seeing now is that greed is still alive and kicking, and banks are bigger than ever.

Greed Seeing Alive Now Bigger Still

Greed is normally balanced by fear.

Fear Greed Balanced Normally

Nothing makes us more vulnerable than loneliness, except greed.

Loneliness Greed Nothing More Us

Greed has driven the world crazy. And I think I'm lucky that I have a place over here that I can call home.

Home Crazy World Think Greed I Can

I took charge of the government as per my commitment to serving the country and the people, and not out of any greed for yet another post.

Commitment Government People Greed

The only thing wrong with the NBA - or any other professional sport, for that matter - is a wild epidemic of Dumbness and overweening Greed. There is no Mystery about it, and no need to change any rules.

Hunter S. Thompson

Change Greed Mystery Rules Wrong

I don't like greed, I don't like ignorance. I really don't like anger. But I love love.

Love Ignorance Anger Greed Like

By the 1980s, businesses had realized that environmental issues had a price tag. Increasingly, they balked. Reflexively, the anticorporate Left pivoted; Earth Day, erstwhile snow job, became an opportunity to denounce capitalist greed.

Charles C. Mann

Snow Opportunity Day Job Greed Left

Social networks do best when they tap into one of the seven deadly sins. Facebook is ego. Zynga is sloth. LinkedIn is greed.

Best Ego Greed Facebook Sloth Seven

It's not in my mission to work against Euroskepticism; it's my mission to work for fair markets. In antitrust, what is at stake is, in some ways, as old as Adam and Eve because it is about greed, to get more.

Margrethe Vestager

Work Greed Mission More Fair Old

We stress humanity, and this is done at considerable cost. We can't have a lot of dramatics that other shows get away with - promiscuity, greed, jealousy. None of those have a place in 'Star Trek.'

Gene Roddenberry

Stress Jealousy Greed Humanity Place

Greed and Gain, grim guardians of the great god Mammon, continually cry in the ears of the poor, 'Give us your little ones!' And forever do the poor push out their little ones at the imperious ukase, feeding the children to a blind Hunger that is never filled.

God Children Great Blind Greed Push

We already have - thanks to technology, development, skills, the efficiency of our work - enough resources to satisfy all human needs. But we don't have enough resources, and we are unlikely ever to have, to satisfy human greed.

Work Technology Greed Efficiency

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