Quotes by Greed Greed probably figures in my intellectual life as well, as I attempt to absorb a massive amount of information with consequent mental indigestion. Etty Hillesum information greed intellectual The cancer in me became an awareness of the cancer that is everywhere. The cancer of cruelty, the cancer of carelessness, the cancer of greed. Eve Ensler cancer greed awareness I think so much of neoliberalism and capitalism has caused people to live in a state of greed, fear and consumption that is covering up so much of what we really want. Eve Ensler greed people thinking What I loathe is the multi-national conglomerates who must take responsibility for the degradation and pollution of so much of our landscape with their factory farming and greed. Fay Godwin aggravation greed responsibility The dynamo of our economic system is self-interest which may range from mere petty greed to admirable types of self-expression. Felix Frankfurter greed expression self If money be not thy servant, it will be thy master. The covetous man cannot so properly be said to possess wealth, as that may be said to possess him. Francis Bacon greed money men ... these are the two factors that lead to the destruction of our environment: money and time-or to say it another way, greed and haste. The question is, or seems to be, are we going to have an immediate profit and an immediate saving of time, or are we going to do what we really should do as God's children? Francis Schaeffer greed two children There will be people who will teach for the sake of greed or for the sake of ego. So watch their lives. Do they look and act like Jesus? Francis Chan greed people jesus Love of glory, fear of shame, greed for fortune, the desire to make life agreeable and comfortable, and the wish to depreciate others - all of these are often the causes of the bravery that is spoken so highly of by men. Francois de La Rochefoucauld greed bravery men Republicans stand for raw, unbridled evil and greed and ignorance smothered in balloons and ribbons. Frank Zappa greed ignorance evil Avarice misapprehends itself almost always. There is no passion which more often will miss its aim, nor upon which the present has so much influence to the prejudice of the future. Francois de La Rochefoucauld greed passion missing Greed in human nature may now come near to enslaving all humanity by means of the Machine - so fast and far has progress gone with it. This will be evident to anyone who stops to study the modern mechanistic Moloch and takes time to view it in its larger aspects. Frank Lloyd Wright greed views mean We have always known that heedless self interest was bad morals, we now know that it is bad economics. Franklin D. Roosevelt greed business self The law has been perverted, and the powers of the state have become perverted along with it. The law has not only been turned from its proper function, but made to follow an entirely contrary purpose. The law has become a tool for every kind of greed. Instead of preventing crime, the law itself is guilty of the abuses it is supposed to punish. If this is true, it is a serious matter, and moral duty requires me to call the attention of my fellow-citizens to it. Frederic Bastiat greed political law The law has been perverted through the influence of two very different causes-naked greed and misconceived philanthropy. Frederic Bastiat greed law two The whole plan of extermination was nothing less than a cold blooded, calculated political measure, having for its object the annihilation of a superior element in the population, which might prove troublesome, and to this must be added the motive of greed. Fridtjof Nansen greed political might From the first day to this, sheer greed was the driving spirit of civilization. Friedrich Engels philosophical greed civilization Immense wealth, and its lavish expenditure, fill the great house with all that can please the eye, or tempt the taste. Here, appetite, not food, is the great desideratum. Frederick Douglass greed eye house The first thing, the very very first thing, "Find out what your greatest characteristic is, your greatest undoing, your central characteristic of unconsciousness." Each one's is different. Somebody is sex-obsessed. In a country like India, where for centuries sex has been repressed, that has become almost a universal characteristic; everybody is obsessed with sex. Somebody is obsessed with anger, and somebody else is obsessed with greed. You have to watch which is your basic obsession. G. I. Gurdjieff greed country sex Even in a time of elephantine vanity and greed, one never has to look far to see the campfires of gentle people. Garrison Keillor vanity greed people «56789101112131415»
