#greed

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There is something about wills which brings out the worst side of human nature. People who under ordinary circumstances are perfectly upright and amiable, go as curly as corkscrews and foam at the mouth, whenever they hear the words 'I devise and bequeath.


Dorothy L. Sayers


#wills #nature

It’s true: greed has had a very bad press. I frankly don’t see anything wrong with greed. I think that the people who are always attacking greed would be more consistent with their position if they refused their next salary increase. I don’t see even the most Left-Wing scholar in this country scornfully burning his salary check. In other words, "greed" simply means that you are trying to relieve the nature given scarcity that man was born with. Greed will continue until the Garden of Eden arrives, when everything is superabundant, and we don’t have to worry about economics at all. We haven’t of course reached that point yet; we haven’t reached the point where everybody is burning his salary increases, or salary checks in general.


Murray N. Rothbard


#economics #greed #nature

It was not curiosity that killed the goose who laid the golden egg, but an insatiable greed that devoured common sense.


E.A. Bucchianeri


#common-sense #curiosity #deadly-sins #faults #gold

You still could go to some industry or some university or the government and if you could persuade them you had something on the ball—why, then, they might put up the cash after cutting themselves in on just about all of the profits. And, naturally, they'd run the show because it was their money and all you had done was the sweating and the bleeding.


Clifford D. Simak


#corporate-greed #finance #government-financing #grants #rights

...capitalism satisfied the Christian demand for an institution that channels selfish human desire toward the betterment of society. Some critics accuse capitalism of being a selfish system, but the selfishness is not in capitalism - it is in human nature.


Dinesh D'Souza


#christianity #greed #nature

Our incredible bewilderment (wilderness separation) blinds us from seeing that our many personal and global problems primarily result from our assault of and separation from the natural creation process within and around us. Our estrangement from nature leaves us wanting,and when we want there is never enough. Our insatiable wanting is called greed. It is a major source of our destructive dependencies and violence.


Michael J. Cohen


#creation #dependencies #estrangement #global #greed

Nature is richer than billionaires – its assets are so much more uncontaminated. Especially when oil spills expose corporate corruption.


Bauvard


#corporate-greed #environmentalism #nature #oil-spills #wealth

When the greedy executives of rich religions go before Him, they will say, "Remember me for who I was." And God will answer, "I do remember but you have forgotten who you use to be.


Shannon L. Alder


#religious-greed #religion

Two hungry wolves let loose among sheep are not more harmful then a person craving after wealth and status is to his Deen (Religion).


al-Haafidh ibn Rajab al-Hanbalee


#craving-for-wealth #greed #quotes-of-prophet-muhammad #status #wealth

Most of the mess that is called history comes about because kings and presidents cannot be satisfied with a nice chicken and a good loaf of bread.


Jennifer Donnelly


#history #kings #presidents #revolution #president