- Nov 07, 2020
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- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
Human beings are very complex creatures. This desire, this greed, this love is very complex.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
Undoubtedly there are, in connection with each of these things, cases of fraud, swindling, and other financial crimes; that is to say, the greed and selfishness of men are perpetual.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
Man's greed to obtain something for nothing has never yet been able to content itself with a moderate profit.
- Human
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- Nov 07, 2020
Overwhelmed by the miraculous potentialities of the machine, our human greed has interfered with the biological cycle of human companionship which keeps the life of a community healthy.
- Cards
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- Nov 07, 2020
The major international appeal for 'House of Cards' was kind of a surprise because it's a very American show. What we learned is that American politics is very American, but greed and corruption and all of that is very global.
- Passion
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- Nov 07, 2020
When there is money, there is also greed. Everyone wants to talk to you when there is money. Only if you have the passion for it, you must become a philanthropist, else it'll become a headache.
- Left
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- Nov 07, 2020
The modern Left is not driven by fairness. It is guided by an ideology of greed and envy. Those are vices, not virtues.
- Living
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- Nov 07, 2020
Disproportionate corporate power over governments is giving license to the greed that denies workers even minimum living wages. It is also seemingly a license to allow the sheer brutality of treatment of working people at the base of the supply chains.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
We've been raised to compete, to want more! More! More! It's a way of life. It's about greed.
- Personal
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- Nov 07, 2020
Riots born out of political issues aren't the same as those born out of personal greed.
- Bad
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- Nov 07, 2020
As time goes on we get closer to that American Dream of there being a pie cut up and shared. Usually greed and selfishness prevent that and there is always one bad apple in every barrel.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
We find personal success and great, if not enduring, influence on the outer fashioning of the world allotted to the violent, the passionate individual who, unchaining the elemental principles of human impulse under favoring circumstances, points out to greed and self-indulgence the speedy pathways to their satisfaction.
- Ego
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- Nov 07, 2020
Social networks do best when they tap into one of the seven deadly sins. Facebook is ego. Zynga is sloth. LinkedIn is greed.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I see people scratching and clawing towards ambition and greed, I wonder why they are doing it and for what.
- Manifest
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- Nov 07, 2020
Fear tends to manifest itself much more quickly than greed, so volatile markets tend to be on the downside. In up markets, volatility tends to gradually decline.
- Fear
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- Nov 07, 2020
Greed is normally balanced by fear.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
But at a certain point, and I don't really know... people have asked me this. I don't know exactly what it was that pushed me towards directing, but I think it was a naive notion that if I directed I would be able to play all the roles. A kind of greed.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
Progressives regard government as the white knight that protects the public from the greed of capitalists. If only.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
Con men look for human frailty to exploit. This is most often greed. Trump found a different vice: anger. The emotional are always the most susceptible to manipulation.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think it's a shame when the arts have to suffer because of corporate greed. People will always strive to make film, and the only important thing is that we keep trying to make ourselves heard and keep making our films, no matter what the climate is.
- Calculating
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- Nov 07, 2020
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 calculating machines or utility-maximisers.
- Leadership
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- Nov 07, 2020
Leadership is a privilege to better the lives of others. It is not an opportunity to satisfy personal greed.
- Problem
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- Nov 07, 2020
The problem of social organization is how to set up an arrangement under which greed will do the least harm, capitalism is that kind of a system.
- Extraordinary
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- Nov 07, 2020
There aren't a lot of things that are extraordinary about Putin, but his greed is truly extraordinary.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
Liability limit has become a symbol of corporate greed in passing the risk of disaster to the U.S. government and U.S. citizens.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Be it terrorists or 'blinded by greed' capitalists or 'deaf and dumb and siloed' officials, special interests will always tyrannize the common good.
- Goodness
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- Nov 07, 2020
We're all basically made of the same stuff: generosity and selfishness, goodness and greed.
- Death
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- Nov 07, 2020
The American way of life, as I see it, is really the American way of death. Everything is determined by greed and the insatiable desire to be the richest and most powerful. And that desire is limitless.
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
Christopher Finazzo had a great job that paid him millions of dollars, but this honest living was apparently not enough to satisfy his greed.
- Lead
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- Nov 07, 2020
We shall have to practise to lead our life on the basis of our needs, not under the influence of our greed.
- Competition
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- Nov 07, 2020
For the exploitation of human greed, they have devised comparison and competition. Right from childhood on, we are indoctrinated to compare and compete, and there is a word, a phrase: 'free and fair competition.'
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
But men are so full of greed today, they'll sell anything for a little piece of money.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
I took charge of the government as per my commitment to serving the country and the people, and not out of any greed for yet another post.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
In my shows, I always try to incorporate music because it's the most natural way to set a tone. So if I want to do a show about depression, I use the opera. If I want to do a show about greed, I use spoken word. If I want to do a show about the injustice that's taking place in the world, I might play Sam Cooke.
- Entertainment
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- Nov 07, 2020
Supermarket tabloids and celebrity gossip shows are not just innocently shallow entertainment, but a fundamental part of a much larger movement that involves apathy, greed and hierarchy.
- Politics
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- Nov 07, 2020
What I think was a really lucky coincidence was that a lot of the themes of 'Okja' are things I write about a lot: cognitive dissonance and corporate greed and also the internal politics of fringe groups.
- Organization
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- Nov 07, 2020
The organization and constant onward sweep of this movement exemplifies the resentment of the many toward the selfishness, greed and the neglect of the few.
- Protection
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- Nov 07, 2020
Spinning yarns is a protection against the nuttiness... the greed, the hate all around us.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Greed can't again lead the way. We've taken that route before with terrible consequences for this nation and its people.
- Franklin Roosevelt
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- Nov 07, 2020
When the stock market crashed, Franklin Roosevelt got on the television and didn't just talk about the princes of greed. He said, 'Look, here's what happened.'
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Why are we in this mess, now facing the prospect of economic armageddon? It's because the prevailing characteristic has been greed, and it doesn't matter whether it's individuals living beyond their means or governments living beyond their means or people seeking to get rich quick.
- Quality
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- Nov 07, 2020
We cannot sacrifice our safety to the murderous greed of drug cartels. We cannot stand idly by as drop houses, kidnappings and violence compromise our quality of life.
- Interesting
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- Nov 07, 2020
Corporate greed in New York won. It suffocated anything interesting out of the city.
- Health
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- Nov 07, 2020
Greed, accident, or malice may have harmful results, but, barring something truly apocalyptic, a resilient system can absorb such results without its overall health being threatened.
- Face
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- Nov 07, 2020
If we go on the way we have, the fault is our greed and if we are not willing to change, we will disappear from the face of the globe, to be replaced by the insect.
- Need
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- Nov 07, 2020
Buddhism talks about the possibility of transforming greed, hatred, and delusion. But sometimes need turns into greed.
- Powerful
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- Nov 07, 2020
We have to knock down the barriers erected by greed, special interests, powerful forces.
- Problems
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- Nov 07, 2020
War and peace-making, human rights, humanitarian issues have become industries, but nobody looks closely at human greed, at the arms industry and the manufacture of landmines. Art has to take a wider view. The problems of Ireland are my problems, too.
- Humanity
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- Nov 07, 2020
We stress humanity, and this is done at considerable cost. We can't have a lot of dramatics that other shows get away with - promiscuity, greed, jealousy. None of those have a place in 'Star Trek.'
- Driving
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- Nov 07, 2020
From the first day to this, sheer greed was the driving spirit of civilization.
- Must
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- Nov 07, 2020
What I loathe is the multi-national conglomerates who must take responsibility for the degradation and pollution of so much of our landscape with their factory farming and greed.
- Information
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- Nov 07, 2020
Greed probably figures in my intellectual life as well, as I attempt to absorb a massive amount of information with consequent mental indigestion.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction.
- Pressure
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- Nov 07, 2020
We all seem to be about aggression and greed. It's a massive pressure that affects us all.
- Name
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- Nov 07, 2020
If we weren't born with anti-social passions - narcissism, envy, lust, meanness, greed, hunger for power, just to name the more obvious - why the need for so many laws, whether religious or secular, that govern behavior?
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
People always ask me for my secret. There isn't one. You've just got to keep a level head and stay away from greed, which is the worst thing that can happen to a successful person.
- Grasped
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- Nov 07, 2020
They have stolen the public lands. They have grasped all to themselves, and by their unprincipled greed brought a crisis of unparalleled distress on forty millions of people, who have natural resources to feed, clothe and shelter the whole human race.
- Cite
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Bible and several other self help or enlightenment books cite the Seven Deadly Sins. They are: pride, greed, lust, envy, wrath, sloth, and gluttony. That pretty much covers everything that we do, that is sinful... or fun for that matter.
- Doing The Right Thing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I didn't do it because of the underlying greed that's prevailing, but it is about greed, doing the right thing at the right time using your clout when you have it and what for and what reason.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
Occupy Wall Street means making Wall Street and the corporate power elite understand that the people affected by the binge of unregulated greed are not going away, and they are not going to give up.
- Lust
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- Nov 07, 2020
Moliere exaggerates common vices of mankind: lust, greed, misanthropy, hypocrisy. We all have a touch of these.
- Three
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- Nov 07, 2020
Throw out the fun-killers that you carry about with yourselves all the time. Three of them are lust, greed, and hatred.
- Generosity
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- Nov 07, 2020
The opposite of corporate greed is personal generosity. Government policies that enable the former and prevent the latter are both worthy of protest.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ideology that believes government is bad, and that public institutions and places are not valuable, is as destructive as corporate greed.
- Need
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- Nov 07, 2020
We can't allow any war for imperialism or greed to be fought in our names. This is what we need to keep fighting for.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is a greed case for diversity. Diverse perspectives bring us into markets we didn't know existed.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ted Geisel was trying to make a statement about awareness and personal responsibility. He was very clear about that. But the ideas and themes in 'The Lorax' go beyond a love of trees. It's also a story about the dangers of greed and the power of redemption. That's what makes it a timeless tale.
- Nov 07, 2020
The everyday kindness of the back roads more than makes up for the acts of greed in the headlines.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are a lot of people who are doing wonderful things, quietly, with no motive of greed, or hostility toward other people, or delusions of superiority.
- Desire
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- Nov 07, 2020
Calm self-confidence is as far from conceit as the desire to earn a decent living is remote from greed.
- Newspaper
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- Nov 07, 2020
Obviously you have to make a profit to put out a newspaper. I'm not an idiot. But when the margins are in excess of 25 per cent you're talking about greed.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
The ignorant mind, with its infinite afflictions, passions, and evils, is rooted in the three poisons. Greed, anger, and delusion.
- Means
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- Nov 07, 2020