"The earth has everything for all human needs, but nothing for his greed."
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"But there's got to be an opening somewhere here in front of me. Through this maze of ugliness and greed."
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"She never forgets a slight, real or imagined. She takes caution for cowardice and dissent for defiance. And she is greedy. Greedy for power, for honour, for love."
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"For total greed, rapacity, heartlessness, and irresponsibility there is nothing to match a nation."
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"Possessions are usually diminished by possession."
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"...unless the exchange be in love and kindly justice, it will but lead some to greed and others to hunger."
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"And their greed was for gold or God. They collected souls as they collected jewels."
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"In these times gain is not only a matter of greed, but of ambition."
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"I mean people -- people don't get -- they don't get smarter about things that get as basic as greed and you can't stand to see your neighbor getting rich. You know you're smarter than he is, and he's doing these things, you know, and he's getting rich, and your spouse is getting unhappy with you because you aren't doing -- pretty soon you start doing it. And so you get what I call the natural progression, the three Is. The innovators, the imitators, and the idiots."
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"Many people and companies only have one goal: money, money, and more money. Greed is ok when you let others profit from it, but greed for oneself is bad, it makes you ill."
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"Is it not the excess and greed of this and the neglect of all other things that revolutionizes this constitution too and prepares the way for the necessity of a dictatorship?"
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"To those who can hear me, I say, do not despair. The misery that is now upon us is but the passing of greed, the bitterness of men who fear the way of human progress."
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"People's lives are filled with vice and the trappings of it. Ambition, greed and selfishness all have to do with vice. Sooner or later, you have to see through it or you don't survive."
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"Fear and greed are potent motivators. When both of these forces push in the same direction, virtually no human being can resist."
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"Our problem mostly in our abuse of each other and the planet is greed. Just the rampant, incredible greed that people have partly because they're empty and they can't get enough because they're - you know, it's that Buddhist thing about the hungry ghost with the little mouth and the big belly."
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"Strikes deeper, grows with more pernicious root."
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"What has patriotism come to be but greed and false pride, when the only way it can show itself is by shedding blood to gain gold? More economic advantage, more territory, more power."
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"Man is oftentimes weak-minded enough to be caught in the snare of greed and honeyed words."
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"The earth has enough resources for our need, but not for our greed."
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"When one, abandoning greed, feels no greed for what would merit greed, greed gets shed from him - like a drop of water from a lotus leaf."
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