Ambrose Bierce Quotes, Greed Quotes, Tariffs Quotes

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

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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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Man is oftentimes weak-minded enough to be caught in the snare of greed and honeyed words.

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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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Those who own much have much to fear.

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Religion as a vital issue is dead except on paper, and whatever beauty-baiting the future may witness will be the work of greed and trade, and not of honest cosmos-facing.

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The prodigality of millionaires is comparable only to their greed of gain. Let some whim or passion seize them and money is of no account. In fact these Croesuses find whims and passions harder to come by than gold.

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The greed for fruit misses the flower.

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We need to learn how to separate need from greed.

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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 saving of labour of the individual should be the object and honest humanitarian considerations, and not greed, the motive.

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Greed is costly. Assembled fortunes are lost.

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I contemplated my greed for peace. And I did not seek tranquillity anymore.

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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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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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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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World has things which full fill man needs, but not greeds.

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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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