All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.
Edgar Allan Poe
An intriguing paradox of the 1990s is that it isn't called a decade of greed.
Paul Samuelson
Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power.
P. J. O'Rourke
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.
Rick Danko
At a time when unbridled greed, malignant aggression, and existence of weapons of mass destruction threatens the survival of humanity, we should seriously consider any avenue that offers some hope.
Stanislav Grof
But at a certain point, and I don't really know... people have asked me this. I don't know exactly what it was that pushed me towards directing, but I think it was a naive notion that if I directed I would be able to play all the roles. A kind of greed.
Peter Bogdanovich
But love, like the sun that it is, sets afire and melts everything. what greed and privilege to build up over whole centuries the indignation of a pious spirit, with its natural following of oppressed souls, will cast down with a single shove.
Jose Marti
But men are so full of greed today, they'll sell anything for a little piece of money.
Little Richard
Calm self-confidence is as far from conceit as the desire to earn a decent living is remote from greed.
Channing Pollock
Do not follow vain desires; for verily he who prospers is preserved from lust, greed and anger.
Abu Bakr
Even in a time of elephantine vanity and greed, one never has to look far to see the campfires of gentle people.
Garrison Keillor
Fear tends to manifest itself much more quickly than greed, so volatile markets tend to be on the downside. In up markets, volatility tends to gradually decline.
Philip Roth
Fifa cannot sit by and see greed rule the football world. Nor shall we.
Sepp Blatter
For greed all nature is too little.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
From the first day to this, sheer greed was the driving spirit of civilization.
Friedrich Engels
Greed and globalization aren't just America's fault.
Arlo Guthrie
Greed has driven the world crazy. And I think I'm lucky that I have a place over here that I can call home.
Nina Simone
Greed has taken the whole universe, and nobody is worried about their soul.
Little Richard
Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction.
Erich Fromm
Greed is the inventor of injustice as well as the current enforcer.
Julian Casablancas
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