Emily Bronte Quotes, People Quotes, Greed Quotes

It is strange people should be so greedy, when they are alone in the world.

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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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Tags : Honore De Balzac Quotes , Passion Quotes , Greed Quotes

The Emperor himself amassed his great riches. The older he grew, the greater became his greed, his pitiable cupidity... he and his people took millions from the state treasurer and left cemeteries full of people who had died of hunger, cemeteries visible from the windows of the royal palace

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

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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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"As I think I told you once before," said I, "it is you who have been, in your greed and cunning, against all the world. It may be profitable to you to reflect, in future, that there never were greed and cunning in the world yet, that did not do too much, and overreach themselves. It is as certain as death."

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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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Tags : Mahatma Gandhi Quotes , Greed Quotes , Needs Quotes

It is not greedy to enjoy a good dinner, any more than it is to enjoy a good concert. But I do think there is something greedy about trying to enjoy the dinner and the concert at the same time.

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The greed for fruit misses the flower.

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

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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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For top executives to award themselves these kinds of compensation packages in the midst of this economic crisis isn't just bad taste, it's bad strategy, and I will not tolerate it as president.

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Tags : Barack Obama Quotes , Awards Quotes , Greed Quotes

Possessions are usually diminished by possession.

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Tags : Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes , Greed Quotes , Materialism Quotes

Only those blinded by greed would refuse to let a friend make a copy.

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Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.

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Tags : Ambrose Bierce Quotes , Political Will Quotes , Greed Quotes

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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Tags : H. P. Lovecraft Quotes , Issues Quotes , Greed Quotes

The covetous man is ever in want.

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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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Greed is costly. Assembled fortunes are lost.

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Tags : Laozi Quotes , Greed Quotes , Taoism Quotes

The best way to hate is the worst. 'Tis to find what the hated need, Never mind of what actual worth, And wipe that out of the earth. Let them die of unsatisfied greed.

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