Adrienne Rich Quotes, Greed Quotes, May Quotes

We may feel bitterly how little our poems can do in the face of seemingly out-of-control technological power and seemingly limitless corporate greed, yet it has always been true that poetry can break isolation, show us to ourselves when we are outlawed or made invisible, remind us of beauty where no beauty seems possible, remind us of kinship where all is represented as separation.

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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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TARIFF, n. A scale of taxes on imports, designed to protect the domestic producer against the greed of his consumer.

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Greed is costly. Assembled fortunes are lost.

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Human beings may well be unable to break free of the dictatorship of greed that spreads like a miasma over the world, but no longer will we be an inarticulate and ignorant humanity, confused by our enslavement to superior cruelty and weaponry.

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There is no calamity greater than lavish desires. There is no greater guilt than discontent. And there is no greater disaster than greed.

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There is no such thing as material covetousness. All covetousness is spiritual. ...Any so-called material thing that you want is merely a symbol: you want it not for itself, but because it will content your spirit for the moment.

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We need to learn how to separate need from greed.

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The greed for fruit misses the flower.

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Greed has no boundaries

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The world is big enough to satisfy everyones needs, but will always be too small to satisfy everyones greed

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Unless the church is equipping believers to embrace the values and vision of the kingdom of God and turn away from the materialism, consumerism, greed, and power of the present age, it not only abandons its biblical mandate, it is rendered missionally ineffective.

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The dull, purblind folly of the very rich men, their greed and arrogance, and the corruption in business and politics, have tended to produce a very unhealthy condition.

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The avarice person is ever in want; let your desired aim have a fixed limit.

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People always should know better. People don't get - they don't get smarter about things that get as basic as greed.

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So for a good old-gentlemanly vice, I think I must take up with avarice.

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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.

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Three great forces rule the world: stupidity, fear and greed.

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Let me tell you, Cassius, you yourself are much condemned to have an itching palm.

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I wish to become rich, so that I can instruct the people and glorify honest poverty a little, like those kind hearted, fat, benevolent people do.

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