I did not have three thousand pairs of shoes, I had one thousand and sixty.
We are all born to love people and use things. Unfortunately, we grow to love things and use people...
(n.) An eager desire or longing; greediness; as, a greed of gain.
Whatever worldly thing we may covet - zealously striving to obtain and then retain - never seems to bring an end to our desires. Covetousness, envy, jealousy, and greed always escalate into a vicious...
Ambition if it feeds at all does so on the ambition of others.
You can stand tall without standing on someone. You can be a victor without having victims.
Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction.
Greed, like the love of comfort, is a kind of fear.
Pillars are fallen at thy feet Fanes quiver in the air A prostrate city is thy seat And thou alone art there.
For greed all nature is too little.
Greed's worst point is its ingratitude.
The quality of one's emotional life changes over the years, doesn't it? But the basic instincts and desires, greed and hope, seem to remain constant. In the larger scope of things, there's a sense of...
Most of the time common stocks are subject to irrational and excessive price fluctuations in both directions as the consequence of the ingrained tendency of most people to speculate or gamble... to gi...
The curse of the romantic is a greed for dreams, an intensity of expectation that, in the end, diminishes the reality.
Let us wage a moral and political war against the billionaires and corporate leaders, on Wall Street and elsewhere, whose policies and greed are destroying the middle class of America.
I think war is based in greed and there are huge karmic retributions that will follow. I think war is never the answer to solving any problems. The best way to solve problems is to not have enemies.
The banking collapse was caused, more than anything, by bad government policy and the total failure of bad regulation, rather than by greed.
We already have - thanks to technology, development, skills, the efficiency of our work - enough resources to satisfy all human needs. But we don't have enough resources, and we are unlikely ever to h...
Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignor...
The greatest obstacle to the welfare state is not greed but private charity that makes the welfare state irrelevant; the greatest obstacle to re-education of children in the name of the collective is...
New York City is a great monument to the power of money and greed... a race for rent.
Showing 301 to 320 of 379 results