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Original sin, the true original sin, is the blind destruction for the sake of greed of this natural paradise which lies all around us-if only we were worthy of it.

Our expensive welfare state is fueled by the destructive notion that 'greed' is when you want to keep your own money but 'compassion' is when you want to take somebody else's.

Our non-co-operation is with the system the English have established in India, with the material civilization and its attendant greed and exploitation of the weak.

Ours is an upbeat, a hurried, hasty beat. It keeps pressing us to go farther, to include everything so that we can savor everything, so that we can know everything, so that we will miss nothing. Partly it's greed, but mainly its curiosity. We just want to experience it. And we do.

Our world has grown weary of greed, exploitation and division, of the tedium of false idols and piecemeal responses, and the pain of false promises.

Patience leads to power; but eagerness in greed leads to loss.

Peace and the survival of life on earth as we know it are threatened by human activities which lack a commitment to humanitarian values. Destruction of nature and nature's resources result from ignorance, greed and lack of respect for the earth's living things.

People always should know better. People don't get - they don't get smarter about things that get as basic as greed.

People can commend the weather without envy.

...people of old deemed freedom from greed precious, and this is how they got beyond the world.

People who are tired of K Street corruption and Wall Street greed are ready for Main Street Values.

People's lives are filled with vice and the trappings of it. Ambition, greed and selfishness all have to do with vice. Sooner or later, you have to see through it or you don't survive.

People who are greedy have extraordinary capacities for waste-they must, they take in too much.

Perhaps all our troubles - all the violence, obesity, illness, depression, and greed we can't overcome - began when we stopped living as Running People. Deny your nature, and it will erupt in some other, uglier way.

Personal greed and egoism are things that cause human beings to forget respect for others and to violate rules that have been established for the sake of peace and friendship.

Politicians never accuse you of 'greed' for wanting other people's money - only for wanting to keep your own money.

Poverty wants much; but avarice, everything.

Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or wrong.

Possessions are usually diminished by possession.

Rejoice for those around you who transform into the Force. Mourn them, do not. Miss them, do not. Attachment leads to jealousy. The shadow of greed, that is. Train yourself to let go of everything you fear to lose

Pray daily to be used by God, sacrifice personal needs and so greed has to go out of the window. Because you have to believe God can take care of you so you don't have to worry about that.

RADIO IS DEAD. The once-bright star that was public broadcasting has been destroyed by greed and corproate muscle to the point that even the music that is completely repugnant is positioned to be popular.

Purposeless activity may be a phase of death.

Reduce the complexity of life by eliminating the needless wants of life, and the labors of life reduce themselves.

Sail on, sail on, o' might Ship of State. To the shores of need, past the reefs of greed, through the squalls of hate. Sail on, sail on, sail on.

Republicans stand for raw, unbridled evil and greed and ignorance smothered in balloons and ribbons.

Revolt is the mirror in which greed is forced to see itself.

Riots born out of political issues aren't the same as those born out of personal greed.

Safe-breaking and vault-breaking are at least as old as the pyramids and burial chambers of Egypt. Poking holes in vaults and safes for profit appears to be as durable as greed.

Selfish persons are incapable of loving others, but they are not capable of loving themselves either.

Social networks do best when they tap into one of the seven deadly sins. Facebook is ego. Zynga is sloth. LinkedIn is greed.

Since time immemorial and pre-industrial, 'greed' has been the accusation hurled at the rich by the concrete-bound illiterates who were unable to conceive of the source of wealth or of the motivation of those who produce it.

Sitting with a deck of cards in your hand all day is an obsession. Visiting print shops and bookstores and libraries is an obsession. And writing about this is an obsession. I think, in general, most collectors are obsessed. I think the only form of a rationalized greed is when you're collecting something you are supposedly serious about.

Share prices follow the theorem: hope divided by fear minus greed.

So for a good old-gentlemanly vice, I think I must take up with avarice.

Some men make money not for the sake of living, but ache In the blindness of greed and live just for their fortune's sake.

Spinning yarns is a protection against the nuttiness... the greed, the hate all around us.

Someone reminded me I once said, 'Greed is good.' Now it seems it's legal.

TARIFF, n. A scale of taxes on imports, designed to protect the domestic producer against the greed of his consumer.

Strikes deeper, grows with more pernicious root.

Such gluttony second to none Almost ended fatally When a bone choked a wolf as he gulped what he ate

Suddenly I find myself feeling sorry for those greedy, needy people whose huge salaries are never quite enough, whose sense of worth is defined by their own personal wad. What a diminished, impoverished world they must inhabit ... We should feel sorry for them and their sadly limited lives. Then we should remember never to trust the judgement of those whose priorities are so idiotically skewed.

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.

Technology, including Zaadz, will allow us to evade the jerks far more than we could before. The technology-based social responsibility movement, broadly construed, will allow us to return to some extent to the moral monitoring of small villages.

The avarice person is ever in want; let your desired aim have a fixed limit.

That poverty is no disaster is understood by everyone who has not yet succumbed to the madness of greed and luxury that turns everything topsy-turvy.

The agrarian crisis [in India] is an unnecessary tragedy, resulting directly from an economics of greed and a politics driven by the economies of greed.

The be-all and end-all of life should not be to get rich, but to enrich the world.

The beast for me is greed. Whether you read Dante, Swift, or any of these guys, it always boils down to the same thing: the corruption of the soul.

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.