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Greed is good to most economists. It's greed that makes people work harder, be more productive and helps the economy grow.
avarice breeds envy, a worm that is always gnawing, letting the avaricious enjoy neither their own nor anyone else's good.
Fight only in direst need Not for lust or petty greed Honor those that do give birth Respect them well for their full worth
As long as greed, stupidity and cowardice remain a part of the human condition, there will be a constituency for Democrats.
One path is greed, the second is curiosity. With one, the journey is to a reward; with the other, the journey is the reward.
Social networks do best when they tap into one of the seven deadly sins. Facebook is ego. Zynga is sloth. LinkedIn is greed.
Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.
If we got one-tenth of what was promised to us in these acceptance speeches there wouldn't be any inducement to go to heaven.
The saving of labour of the individual should be the object and honest humanitarian considerations, and not greed, the motive.
How shrunk, how dwindled, in our times Creation's mighty seed - For Man has broke the Fellowship With murder, lust, and greed.
The main source of our wealth is goodness. The affections and the generous qualities that God admires in a world full of greed.
The dynamo of our economic system is self-interest which may range from mere petty greed to admirable types of self-expression.
Avarice is a cursed vice: offer a man enough gold, and he will part with his own small hoard of food, however great his hunger.
Many communities are already devastated by poverty. Increasingly, that poverty is born of the greed of a global trading system.
People seem to take as much offence as they possibly can these days - it's almost a new type of greed, a new kind of road rage.
Work should never make me weary If I'm really meant to do it, But it soon becomes exhausting If it's greed that drives me to it.
Fear and greed are potent motivators. When both of these forces push in the same direction, virtually no human being can resist.
Make Money a CENTRAL priority. This has nothing to do with greed and consumption and everything to do with life force and power.
Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction.
What the advertisers are trying to do by eliminating residuals is the most appalling form of greed that I cry thinking about it.
Liability limit has become a symbol of corporate greed in passing the risk of disaster to the U.S. government and U.S. citizens.
While neurological studies have tried to identify components responsible for fear and greed, the impact on finance is less clear.
We have become so addicted to our greed-driven habits that we have lost our moral compass and don't know what is right and wrong.
The ignorant mind, with its infinite afflictions, passions, and evils, is rooted in the three poisons. Greed, anger, and delusion.
As consumers we are incredibly discerning, we sense where has been great care in the design, and when there is cynicism and greed.
In this world laws are written for the lofty aim of "the common good" and then acted out in life on the basis of the common greed.
Once you get involved with bloodsport litigation, you can not only get drunk on your own greed but start to believe your own lies.
Cash is always the deciding factor in such matters of moral politics; nothing ever gets done unless motivated by commerce or greed.
There is nothing wrong with being well off as long as money has a social and ethical value and is not the object of one's own greed.
The reason the Christians have murdered on such a vast scale and killed anyone and everyone in their way is purely and simply greed.
They who in folly or mere greed Enslaved religion, markets, laws, Borrow our language now and bid Us to speak up in freedom's cause.
There are sufficient resources in the world for the needs of everybody, but not enough for the greed of even a significant minority.
Cast aside those who liken godliness to whimsy and who try to combine their greed for wealth with their desire for a happy afterlife.
What most people call "chaos" is actually incredibly predictable and maddeningly boring - greed, close-mindedness, warring over power.
I like to think that my arrogance, impetuosity, impatience, selfishness and greed are the qualities that make me the lovable chap I am.
Greed is a sin because humans are social creatures. And they simply cannot survive without the opposite of greed, which is cooperation.
The business of business should not be about money. It should be about responsibility. It should be about public good, not private greed
There was no more good or evil in this world than we imagine there to be, either out of greed or out of innocence. Or sometimes madness.
There will be people who will teach for the sake of greed or for the sake of ego. So watch their lives. Do they look and act like Jesus?
The possession of power over others is inherently destructive both to the possessor of the power and to those over whom it is exercised.
Patriarchy is connected to greed, a symptom of a larger force that can only be dispelled through kindness and love. It's basic Buddhism.
I have never understood why it is "greed" to want to keep the money you have earned but not greed to want to take somebody else's money.
I have news for the forces of greed and the defenders of the status quo: your time has come - and gone. It's time for change in America.
The nature of any human being, certainly anyone on Wall Street, is 'the better deal you give the customer, the worse deal it is for you'.
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.
There is no calamity greater than lavish desires. There is no greater guilt than discontent. And there is no greater disaster than greed.
It isn't that greed's increased. What's increased is the realization that you've got a free field to reach out for what you'd like to do.
Ideology that believes government is bad, and that public institutions and places are not valuable, is as destructive as corporate greed.
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.
As we grow up, we are exposed to hate and greed and anger and jealousy and peanut brittle and all kinds of things, our subtly body erodes.