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I believe in the sun. In the tangle of human failures of fear, greed and forgetfulness, the sun gives me clarity.
Elevation of today's generation, if I can make them listen. Prisons ain't what we need, no longer stuck in greed.
The discovery of America was the occasion of the greatest outburst of cruelty and reckless greed known in history.
You can see it in terms of the obsession on Wall Street with not just profits but greed, more profit, more profit.
Though statisticians in our time have never kept the score, Man wants a great deal here below and Woman even more.
Noir has always shown that greed and chaos are as close as the company we work for or the politicians we vote for.
If everybody's behavior can be explained by simple stupidity and greed, there's no point in assuming a conspiracy.
Reduce the complexity of life by eliminating the needless wants of life, and the labors of life reduce themselves.
The avarice of the miser may be termed the grand sepulchral of all his other passions, as they successively decay.
Greed stains our culture, soaks our sensibilities and has replaced grace as a sign of our intimacy with the divine.
The path of love has many opponents - fear, self-pity, anxiety, hate, lust, greed, avarice - all the usual freinds.
Politicians never accuse you of 'greed' for wanting other people's money - only for wanting to keep your own money.
Progressives regard government as the white knight that protects the public from the greed of capitalists. If only.
Greed has poisoned men's souls, has barricaded the world with hate, has goose-stepped us into misery and bloodshed.
The love for material things grows like a fungus in the soul and destroys the loveliness of the human heart utterly.
God is in heaven, and we all want what's his. But power and greed and corruptible seed seem to be all that there is.
The Master said, “If your conduct is determined solely by considerations of profit you will arouse great resentment.
TARIFF, n. A scale of taxes on imports, designed to protect the domestic producer against the greed of his consumer.
Fear, greed and hope have destroyed more portfolio value than any recession or depression we have ever been through.
People always should know better. People don't get - they don't get smarter about things that get as basic as greed.
No great advancement has ever been kept at bay because of ideology, nor greed. Eventually progress moves us forward.
What can defeat greed, technological superiority, and legal lawlessness ... is discipline, consciousness, and unity.
We can't allow any war for imperialism or greed to be fought in our names. This is what we need to keep fighting for.
If you don't work yourself up into a fever of greed and covetousness in an art museum, you're just not doing the job.
There are sufficient resources on this planet to answer the needs of all, but not enough to satisfy everyone's greed.
Global commerce is driven by a single conviction: the inalienable right to earn profit, regardless of any human cost.
The life of sensation is the life of greed; it requires more and more. The life of the spirit requires less and less.
If you love peace, then hate injustice, hate tyranny, hate greed � but hate these things in yourself, not in another.
Greed is a basic part of animal nature. Being against it is like being against breathing or eating. It means nothing.
He was seized and dragged off to King Philip, and being asked who he was, replied, "A spy upon your insatiable greed."
Ambition and thirst for power have a part but greed and greed alone is the reason for a man wanting to swell his ward.
When a doctor refuses money, even the most ethical ones, you usually start driving a good bargain with the undertaker.
The curse of the romantic is a greed for dreams, an intensity of expectation that, in the end, diminishes the reality.
Buddhism talks about the possibility of transforming greed, hatred, and delusion. But sometimes need turns into greed.
Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or wrong.
It was not curiosity that killed the goose who laid the golden egg, but an insatiable greed that devoured common sense.
Throw out the fun-killers that you carry about with yourselves all the time. Three of them are lust, greed, and hatred.
The modern Left is not driven by fairness. It is guided by an ideology of greed and envy. Those are vices, not virtues.
I vote far-left. I am frequently angered by corporate greed and think education ought to be free and teachers paid well.
The human heart is greedy; it will use religion, color, or any other excuse to justify its greed. Blame the human heart.
Greed can't again lead the way. We've taken that route before with terrible consequences for this nation and its people.
The law has been perverted through the influence of two very different causes-naked greed and misconceived philanthropy.
Clarity and perseverance are difficult in American society because the basis of capitalism is greed and dissatisfaction.
The greed and envy of the nonproducer is insatiable, so that eventually nothing short of 100% taxation will appease him.
Avarice, or the desire of gain, is a universal passion which operates at all times, at all places, and upon all persons.
Cardinal Mazarin was a great knave, but no great man; much more cunning than able; scandalously false and dirtily greedy.
God can rid your heart of greed, but it's your responsibility to remove yourself from situations that promote greediness.
Greed, the desire to incorporate, is magnified and fed back to produce the pretan realms, just as hate creates the hells.
avarice breeds envy, a worm that is always gnawing, letting the avaricious enjoy neither their own nor anyone else's good.
Some men make money not for the sake of living, but ache In the blindness of greed and live just for their fortune's sake.