The whole idea of government is this: If enough people get together and act in concert, they can take something and not pay for it.
The Duke of Dunstable had one-way pockets. He would walk ten miles in the snow to chisel an orphan out of tuppence.
(n.) An eager desire or longing; greediness; as, a greed of gain.
Every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a business, and turns into a racket.
I disagree. You want to bring back someone that you've lost. You might want money. Maybe you want women. Or, you might want to protect the world. These are all common things people want. Things that t...
Ambition if it feeds at all does so on the ambition of others.
Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction.
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...
Marty, my mother used to say Never get greedy with God. I think what she meant was Don't dare ask for more if you already have what you need.
There was somewhere, if you knew where to find it, some place where money could be made like drawing water from a well, some Big Rock Candy Mountain where life was effortless and rich and unrestricted...
Question: What do you get the man who has everything? Answer: a concious. That guy is so greedy.
What is is plenty, but more is never enough.
There's more than enough for the many, but somehow never enough for the few
You can stand tall without standing on someone. You can be a victor without having victims.
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...
Are you not ashamed of caring so much for the making of money and for fame and prestige, when you neither think nor care about wisdom and truth and the improvement of your soul?
We have had enough of the old men and the money-counters!" And people further off took up the cry: "Up Bowman, and down with the moneybags,
The great thing about behavioural psychology and economics is that they help us to see that there are actually pretty good reasons why human beings swing from greed to fear, and why we're not really c...
There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it.
If I have to build a big company by mistreating other people then the Bible says WOE to me. I don't know what that is, but I don't want any of it.
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