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Greed  Quotes
Live for your country, die to yourself; live for yourself, die to your country.

—Anthony Liccione

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It is the privilege of the gods to want nothing, and of godlike men to want little.

—Diogenes of

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The fact that they viewed their wealth as a result of their own hands, without any honor other than lip service being given to the god that had blessed them, gave perfect openings to the...

—Lee Goff

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I will tell you the secret to getting rich on Wall Street. You try to be greedy when others are fearful. And you try to be fearful when others are greedy.

—Warren Buffett

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If you are covetous, you are a prisoner: If you are greedy, you will never be filled.

—Idries Shah

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Greed is a little bit more than enough.

—Toba Beta

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When everything gets too much, give some away

—Benny Bellamacina

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Yesterday I got a credit card application from a major bank with a variable rate of 12.99% to 20.99%. Such a deal. And what if I fall on hard times and lose my job? So,...

—Andrew Neff

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Gold conjures up a mist about a man, more destructive of all his old senses and lulling to his feelings than the fumes of charcoal.

—Charles Dickens

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To make a deliberate falsification for personal gain is the last, worst depth to which either scholar or artist can descend in work or life.(Letter to Muriel St. Clare Byrne, 8 September 1935)

—Dorothy L. Sayers

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The difference between greed and ambition is a greedy person desires things he isn’t prepared to work for.

—Habeeb Akande

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if… says: ‘Do not be greedy, be generous’, you may inwardly interpret this in such a manner that you will develop a greed for generosity

—Idries Shah

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The angry men know that this golden age (of fossil fuels) has gone; but they cannot find the words for the constraints they hate. Clutching their copies of Atlas Shrugged, they flail around, accusing those...

—George Monbiot

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I fear we face a new kind of man along with this new kind of affluence. When lands meant wealth, men could perhaps have enough. Too much land was difficult to govern. But with paper...

—David Liss

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Why can’t we say ‘When!’ about money the way we say ‘When!’ about coffee?

—Lionel Fisher

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The happiest people are not the ones with the best or the most things, but those who most appreciate what they have.

—Oliver Gaspirtz

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These temple destroyers, devotees of ravaging commercialism, seem to have a perfect contempt for Nature, and, instead of lifting their eyes to the God of the mountains, lift them to the Almighty Dollar.

—John Muir

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You want Paradise, you gotta build it on war, on blood, on envy and naked greed.

—Michel Faber

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Genuflection before the idol or the dollar destroys the muscles which walk and the will that moves.

—Victor Hugo

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There is only one right way to eat a steak – with greed in your heart and a smile on your face.

—Soumeet Lanka

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Socialism is politicized envy.

—Rousas John

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The greedy bastard, thought Weintî. He knows perfectly well that twenty shekels is the going rate for a female household slave of my age.

—Betty Cross

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Where there is desire, the means to fulfill it are endless.

—A.J. Darkholme

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Loan sharking may mean investment and immediate solutions but desperate loan sharks, who are short of cash, abuse your rights and attack other people’s home. ~ Odyssey of a Heart, Home of a Soul

—Angelica Hopes

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The town is mobbed out with Saturday shoppers looking for Christmas bargains. You can almost breathe in the raw greed which hangs in the air like vapour. As the late afternoon darkness falls, the lights...

—Irvine Welsh

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Private Latimer had become a monster, and he must have guessed this was so. Did a girl love him before? Could she continue to?

—Ian McEwan

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Those who try to juggle wisdom, power and greed, drop one of the balls, every time.”—Zarost

—Greg Hamerton

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CREEPOther people have written about war. About how one plane sweeps over and the whole place is ablaze in minutes. About how a young man may kill another young many with perfect legality. I prefer...

—Jay Woodman

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God is not glorified when we keep for ourselves (no matter how thankfully) what we ought to be using to alleviate the misery of unevangelized, uneducated, unmedicated, and unfed millions. The evidence that many professing...

—John Piper

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believers” because they want God to give them things; a thrill, money, spiritual gifts etc. but they never think twice about what THEY can give to God. They are Christian parasites, always wanting more, rather...

—Lisa Bedrick

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When he thought about how he had been slighted, condescended to, manipulated and deceived, he became angry. Obedience was a monastic virtue, but outside the cloisters it had its drawbacks, he thought bitterly. The world...

—Ken Follett

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Alderic, Knight of the Order of the City and the Assault, hereditary Guardian of the King’s Peace of Mind, a man not unremembered among the makers of myth, pondered so long upon the Gibbelins’ hoard...

—Lord Dunsany

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Choose altruism, because selfishism is a lonely, cold, dark hole.

—Richelle E.

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Things joined by profit, when pressed by misfortune and danger, will cast each other aside.

—Zhuangzi

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They can talk shit about each other behind the others’ backs, but when it comes down to it, money is the one true race and everyone down here is the color of greenbacks and as...

—Richard Kadrey

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How stand I, then,That have a father killed, a mother stained,Excitements of my reason and my blood,And let all sleep, while to my shame I seeThe imminent death of twenty thousand menThat for a fantasy...

—William Shakespeare

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A character began to speculate whether the incessant drive to have things over again might be the root of all evil.

—C.S. Lewis

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There are six reasons anyone does anything: Love. Faith. Greed. Boredom. Fear…” he said, ticking them off on his fingers; but he lingered on the last, drawing a deep breath before he said, “Revenge.

—Ally Carter

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I would entertain the apparently fading idea that patriotism that serves the self is greed dressed in the garments of liberty and adorned with the fashion accessories of other associated patriotic notions.

—Craig D.

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I followed suit, a little bit nervous, and very unaware of what I was supposed to do. I had that same sensation you get when you were new to a school and had no idea...

—Fisher Amelie

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If the gentleman abandons ren, how can he be worthy of that name? The gentleman does not violate ren even for the amount of time required to eat a meal. Even in times of urgency...

—Confucius

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Doing nothing for others is the undoing of ourselves.

—Horace Mann

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The main obstacle to further progress on the resource curse is China, and to a lesser extent India.

—George Soros

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Politicians never accuse you of ‘greed’ for wanting other people’s money – only for wanting to keep your own money

—Joseph Sobran

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If I have to build a big company by mistreating other people then the Bible says WOE to me. I don’t know what that is, but I don’t want any of it.

—Joyce Meyer

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Heal the past and you’ll heal the present.” Kharis Macey

—Kharis Macey

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Mr. Right’ is usually two or eight men.

—Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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greed” on the part of government or the clientele of government.

—Thomas Sowell

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I hate my country. There are so many rich people who don’t share their shit. They’re like spoiled little ten-year-old bullies on the playground. They hog the monkey bars and the slide and the seesaw....

—Sherman Alexie

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Day and night – ruthlessly apply key lessons of mankind such as leaving greed, fear and lust to improve the efficiency & effectiveness of life.

—V.V. Rao

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