1,220 Quotes About Greed
- Author Thomas Guthrie
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[A]nd you may know how little God thinks of money by observing on what bad and contemptible characters he often bestows it."[Man and the Gospel (1865)]
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- Author Cormac McCarthy
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It is supposed to be true that those who do not know history are condemned to repeat it. I dont believe knowing can save us. What is constant in history is greed and foolishness and a love of blood and this is a thing that even God - who knows all that can be known - seems powerless to change.
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- Author Jocelyn Murray
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Pride is an expensive vice, for it is wedded to Greed whose hunger is never sated
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- Author Munindra Misra
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Lust, anger, attachment, greed, over pride be,Jealousy, selfishness, injustice, cruelty, ego truly;- 153 -
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- Author Coreen T. Sol
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The cycle of optimism and euphoria leading to greed, fear and capitulation, giving way to hope and building back to optimism, drives the expansion and contraction of our financial world in a market cycle of collective human emotion.
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- Author Garrett McCoy
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The difference between greed and goals is what you are prepared to handle...
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- Author Fisher Amelie
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Why me?” I secreted into her ear.“You were the only one I saw,” she whispered back, making my heart burst.
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- Author Sherman Alexie
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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. And if you complain even a little bit, if you try to get just one spin on the merry-go-round, the bullies beat the shit out of you.
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- Author Henry Ford
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Do you want to know the cause of war? It is capitalism, greed, the dirty hunger for dollars. Take away the capitalist, and you will sweep war from the earth.
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