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Quotes
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the Journey:
Greed
Greed
lessens what is gathered.
Arab proverb
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Greed is a bottomless
pit which exhausts the person
in an endless effort to satisfy the need
without ever reaching satisfaction.
-Erich Fromm
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A greedy person and a pauper are practically one
and the same. -Swiss proverb
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| There is no vice which
humankind
carries
to such wild extremes as that of avarice.
-Johanthan Swift |
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There
is a sufficiency in the world
for people's need but not for people's greed.
-Mohandas Gandhi
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bounty of nature is too little for the greedy person.
-Seneca |
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Greed
hurts everyone, but it especially hurts the greedy person. If I have to deal with a greedy person, it affects me
negatively for a moment or three, but then I leave, and
then I avoid that person. The greedy person, though,
because of a fixation on something material or something
they're afraid of losing, hurts and alienates people, and
very often ends up quite alone until he or she is able to
rid him or herself of the fixation on their object of
greed. Somehow,
these people need to learn that they're fine just as they
are, and that their lives aren't being made richer by
possessing the things which they crave, but poorer
because of the way that they act in trying to get the
things they crave and trying to hold on to the things
they have. My hope is that they can be happy without the
need, without the things. -Tom Walsh
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| She had been so wicked that in all her life she
had done only one good deed--given an onion to a beggar.
So she went to hell. As she lay in torment she saw the
onion, lowered down from heaven by an angel. She caught
hold of it. He began to pull her up. The other
damned saw what was happening and caught hold of it too.
She was indignant and cried, "Let go--it's my
onion," and as soon as she said, "My onion,"
the stalk broke and she fell back into the flames.
-E.M. Forster |
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| Hell
has three gates: lust, anger, and greed.
-from the Bhagavad Gita |
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| Nothing
makes us more vulnerable than loneliness, except greed.
-Thomas Harris |
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| Greed, envy, sloth, pride and
gluttony: these are not vices anymore. No,
these are marketing tools. Lust is our way of life. Envy is just a
nudge
towards another sale. Even in our relationships we consume each other,
each of us looking for what we can get out of the other. Our appetites
are often satisfied at the expense of those around us. In a dog-eat-dog world we lose part of our humanity.
-Jon Foreman |
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| 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,
Revolution |
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| Greed
is a fat demon with a small mouth
and whatever you feed it is never enough.
-Janwillem Van de Wetering |
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| Greed is an
imperfection that defiles the mind; hate is an imperfection
that defiles the mind; delusion is an imperfection that defiles the
mind. -Gautama Buddha |
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| Selfishness and greed,
individual or national, cause most of our troubles.
-Harry S. Truman |
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| The ugliest thing in America is greed, the lust for
power and domination,
the lunatic ideology of perpetual Growth - with a capital G.
'Progress'
in our nation has for too long been confused with 'Growth'; I see the
two as different, almost incompatible, since progress means, or should
mean, change for the better - toward social justice, a livable and
open
world, equal opportunity and affirmative action for all forms of life.
And I mean all forms, not merely the human. The grizzly, the wolf,
the rattlesnake, the condor, the coyote, the crocodile, whatever, each
and every species has as much right to be here as we do.
-Edward Abbey,
Postcards from Ed |
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