Sunday, August 07, 2011

Greed

We are all lab rats with hand held devices, feeding the corporate greed machine.
Greed, like the love of comfort, is a kind of fear.
-Cyril Connolly

All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.
-Edgar Allan Poe

An intriguing paradox of the 1990s is that it isn't called a decade of greed.
-Paul Samuelson

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

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

Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction.
-Erich Fromm

Greed is the inventor of injustice as well as the current enforcer.
-Julian Casablancas

For greed all nature is too little.
-Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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