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Greed Quotes

Greed is a basic part of animal nature. Being against it is like being against breathing or eating. It means nothing.

Nature Animal Eating Greed Nothing

What I would like to be remembered for is that Walter Washington changed the spirit of the people of this city, that he came in as mayor when there was hate and greed and misunderstanding among our people and the races were polarized.

Walter Washington

Hate People City Greed Washington

There is a sufficiency in the world for man's need but not for man's greed.

Man World Greed Need

War and peace-making, human rights, humanitarian issues have become industries, but nobody looks closely at human greed, at the arms industry and the manufacture of landmines. Art has to take a wider view. The problems of Ireland are my problems, too.

Art War Problems Greed View Looks

All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.

Edgar Allan Poe

Friend Fear Imagination Poetry Greed

Once you get involved with bloodsport litigation, you can not only get drunk on your own greed but start to believe your own lies.

Start Believe Greed You Drunk Own

I wound up becoming an A&R man at London Records in the 1990s, during the boom of Britpop, the last great gold rush of the music industry. I saw incredible greed and terrible behaviour. I was greedy and terribly behaved.

Music Great Man Gold Greed London

Greed is not a financial issue. It's a heart issue.

Heart Money Financial Greed Issue

Greed has increasingly become a virtue among Wall Street bankers and corporate CEOs in the U.S. Nowhere else in the world do CEOs insist on receiving compensation as high compared to what their employees earn.

Simon Mainwaring

World Greed Employees Wall Street

Riots born out of political issues aren't the same as those born out of personal greed.

Greed Political Born Personal Out

Well first of all, tell me, is there some society you know of that doesn't run on greed? You think Russia doesn't run on greed? You think China doesn't run on greed? What is greed?

Milton Friedman

Me Society Think Greed You Run

What I'm trying to argue, as passionately as I can, is that the Jesus story isn't worth dying for, it's worth living for. Jesus presents a third way, a way of being in the worth that embraces the Sermon on the Mount, with its challenge to violence and greed.

Challenge Story Greed Violence Worth

If we weren't born with anti-social passions - narcissism, envy, lust, meanness, greed, hunger for power, just to name the more obvious - why the need for so many laws, whether religious or secular, that govern behavior?

Power Name Greed Behavior Envy Lust

There is a greed case for diversity. Diverse perspectives bring us into markets we didn't know existed.

Diversity Greed Know Bring Us Case

Human beings may well be unable to break free of the dictatorship of greed that spreads like a miasma over the world, but no longer will we be an inarticulate and ignorant humanity, confused by our enslavement to superior cruelty and weaponry.

World Free Greed Confused Humanity

Disproportionate corporate power over governments is giving license to the greed that denies workers even minimum living wages. It is also seemingly a license to allow the sheer brutality of treatment of working people at the base of the supply chains.

Power People Greed Giving Living

As time goes on we get closer to that American Dream of there being a pie cut up and shared. Usually greed and selfishness prevent that and there is always one bad apple in every barrel.

Time American Dream Greed American

Be it terrorists or 'blinded by greed' capitalists or 'deaf and dumb and siloed' officials, special interests will always tyrannize the common good.

Good Greed Dumb Special Deaf Will

Fear, greed and hope have destroyed more portfolio value than any recession or depression we have ever been through.

James O'Shaughnessy

Fear Hope Depression Value Greed

From the first day to this, sheer greed was the driving spirit of civilization.

Friedrich Engels

Day Greed Driving Civilization First

Greed, like the love of comfort, is a kind of fear.

Love Fear Greed Comfort Kind Like

Man's greed to obtain something for nothing has never yet been able to content itself with a moderate profit.

Man Greed Profit Nothing Never Been

The great thing about behavioural psychology and economics is that they help us to see that there are actually pretty good reasons why human beings swing from greed to fear, and why we're not really calculating machines or utility-maximisers.

Good Fear Great Economics Greed Why

Greed, accident, or malice may have harmful results, but, barring something truly apocalyptic, a resilient system can absorb such results without its overall health being threatened.

Health Greed Results Without System

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