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Well first of all, tell me: Is there some society you know that doesn’t run on greed? You think Russia doesn’t run on greed? You think China doesn’t run on greed? What is greed? Of course, none of us are greedy, it’s only the other fellow who’s greedy. The world runs on individuals pursuing their separate interests. The great achievements of civilization have not come from government bureaus. Einstein didn’t construct his theory under order from a bureaucrat. Henry Ford didn’t revolutionize the automobile industry that way. In the only cases in which the masses have escaped from the kind of grinding poverty you’re talking about, the only cases in recorded history, are where they have had capitalism and largely free trade. If you want to know where the masses are worse off, worst off, it’s exactly in the kinds of societies that depart from that. So that the record of history is absolutely crystal clear, that there is no alternative way so far discovered of improving the lot of the ordinary people that can hold a candle to the productive activities that are unleashed by the free-enterprise system.


Milton Friedman


#economics #greed #civilization

Every mind which has given itself to self-expression in art is aware of a directing agency outside its conscious control which it has agreed to label 'inspiration'.


Norman Lindsay


#agreed #art #aware #conscious #control

Men of vision. Oh, I love the fine names men give each other to hide their greed and lust for adventure.


Charles MacArthur


#each #fine #give #greed #hide

We want to overcome our historical problems with Chile. The sea has divided us and the sea must bring us back together again. Chile has agreed, for the first time, to talk about sea access for Bolivia.


Evo Morales


#access #again #agreed #back #bolivia

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, ignorance, greed and love of power.


P. J. O'Rourke


#anyway #causes #even #fundamental #greed

I'm greedy, and I have a house to pay for and a wife. She has a job of her own, but I bleed her dry. She's on her third shift right now.


Dana Snyder


#dry #greedy #her #house #i

I'm getting too old to play some parts, but I'm still greedy.


Max von Sydow


#greedy #i #old #parts #play

France and Italy have not yet signed this treaty or agreed to naval limitation as between those nations, but I have confidence that in time they will do so.


Frank B. Kellogg


#between #confidence #france #i #italy

So on May 1, 1987, at Gary's invitation, I agreed to see him one last time - to confront him face-to-face about his sincerity and with the intention of ending our brief relationship.


Donna Rice


#agreed #brief #confront #ending #face-to-face

Greed has taken the whole universe, and nobody is worried about their soul.


Little Richard


#greed #nobody #soul #taken #their






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