Alice Walker Quotes, Confused Quotes, Greed Quotes

Human beings may well be unable to break free of the dictatorship of greed that spreads like a miasma over the world, but no longer will we be an inarticulate and ignorant humanity, confused by our enslavement to superior cruelty and weaponry.

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It is not greedy to enjoy a good dinner, any more than it is to enjoy a good concert. But I do think there is something greedy about trying to enjoy the dinner and the concert at the same time.

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Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Thinking Quotes , Greed Quotes

We may feel bitterly how little our poems can do in the face of seemingly out-of-control technological power and seemingly limitless corporate greed, yet it has always been true that poetry can break isolation, show us to ourselves when we are outlawed or made invisible, remind us of beauty where no beauty seems possible, remind us of kinship where all is represented as separation.

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I contemplated my greed for peace. And I did not seek tranquillity anymore.

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Man is oftentimes weak-minded enough to be caught in the snare of greed and honeyed words.

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The fact that people will be full of greed, fear, or folly is predictable. The sequence is not predictable.

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Want is a growing giant whom the coat of have was never large enough to cover.

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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.

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...unless the exchange be in love and kindly justice, it will but lead some to greed and others to hunger.

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

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Possessions are usually diminished by possession.

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The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.

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It is strange people should be so greedy, when they are alone in the world.

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Unless the church is equipping believers to embrace the values and vision of the kingdom of God and turn away from the materialism, consumerism, greed, and power of the present age, it not only abandons its biblical mandate, it is rendered missionally ineffective.

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There is nothing wrong with being well off as long as money has a social and ethical value and is not the object of one's own greed.

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He who is greedy is always in want.

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There is no greater fault than sensual indulgence. There is no greater misfortune than malcontent. There is no greater calamity than greed.

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Those who own much have much to fear.

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There is no calamity greater than lavish desires. There is no greater guilt than discontent. And there is no greater disaster than greed.

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The enjoyment of power inevitably corrupts the judgment of reason, and perverts its liberty.

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