"Greedhas no satiation point, since its consummation does not fill the inner emptiness, boredom, loneliness, and depression it is meant to overcome."
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"Since time immemorial and pre-industrial, 'greed' has been the accusation hurled at the rich by the concrete-bound illiterates who were unable to conceive of the source of wealth or of the motivation of those who produce it."
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"The fact that people will be full of greed, fear, or folly is predictable. The sequence is not predictable."
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"The covetous man pines in plenty, like Tantalus up to the chin in water, and yet thirsty."
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"For greed, all nature is too little."
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"The enjoyment of power inevitably corrupts the judgment of reason, and perverts its liberty."
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"No purpose intervenes between I and You, no greed and no anticipation; and longing itself is changed as it plunges from the dream into appearance. Every means is an obstacle. Only where all means have disintegrated encounters occur."
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"Peace and the survival of life on earth as we know it are threatened by human activities which lack a commitment to humanitarian values. Destruction of nature and nature's resources result from ignorance, greed and lack of respect for the earth's living things."
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"The Master said, “If your conduct is determined solely by considerations of profit you will arouse great resentment."
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"Greed has been severely underestimated and denigrated - unfairly so, in my opinion."
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"It was the kind of blind, gulping, insensate greed that you associate with some milk-eyed creature in a volcanic fissure at the bottom of the Marianas Trench-an organism with no understanding of the existence, let alone the feelings, of other members of the ecosystem."
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"Now that I have written many words, and let out so many loves, for so many, and been altogether what I always was a woman of excess, of zeal and greed, I find the effort useless."
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"You have found that you were more secure before you accumulated so much. See what greed has imposed on you: You have filled your house and now you fear burglars. You have hoarded money and lost sleep. See what greed has commanded you: "Do this!" And you did it."
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"A sack that can contain a person's greed...doesn't exist in this world. If your hearts not content, no matter how much you put in the sack, it's never enough."
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"Our incredible bewilderment (wilderness separation) blinds us from seeing that our many personal and global problems primarily result from our assault of and separation from the natural creation process within and around us. Our estrangement from nature leaves us wanting,and when we want there is never enough. Our insatiable wanting is called greed. It is a major source of our destructive dependencies and violence."
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"I fear just one thing : Money! Greed was what motivated Judas to sell Jesus"
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"...so much attention is paid to the aggressive sins, such as violence and cruelty, and greed with all their tragic effects, that too little attention is paid to the passive sins, such as apathy and laziness, which in the long run can have a more devastating and destructive effect upon society than the others."
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"We want to bear witness today that we know the relation between corporate greed and what goes on too often in the Supreme Court decisions."
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"Greed has no boundaries"
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"Greed and globalization aren't just America's fault."
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