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The point is, ladies and gentlemen, that greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works. Greed clarifies, cuts through, and captures the essence of the evolutionary spirit.
(Stanley Weiser, U.S. screenwriter, and Oliver Stone. Gordon Gekko (Michael Douglas), Wall Street (1987).)
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I got hungry. Greed made me blind.
(Ben Maddow (1909-1992), U.S. screenwriter, and John Huston (1906-1987). Doc Erwin Riedenschneider (Sam Jaffe), The Asphalt Jungle (1950).)
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Even in a time of elephantine vanity and greed, one never has to look far to see the campfires of gentle people.
(Garrison Keillor (b. 1942), U.S. author. "The Meaning of Life," We Are Still Married (1989).)
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Greed, like the love of comfort, is a kind of fear.
(Cyril Connolly (1903-1974), British critic. The Unquiet Grave, pt. 1 (1944, rev. 1951).)
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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 (1900-1980), U.S. psychologist. Escape from Freedom, ch. 4 (1941).)
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Lust and greed are more gullible than innocence.
(Mason Cooley (b. 1927), U.S. aphorist. City Aphorisms, Eighth Selection, New York (1991).)
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There is enough in the world for everyone's need, but not enough for everyone's greed.
(Frank Buchman (1878-1961), U.S. evangelist. Remaking the World (1947).)
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Greed is all right, by the way... I think greed is healthy. You can be greedy and still feel good about yourself.
(Ivan F. Boesky (b. 1937), U.S. financier. Commencement address, May 18, 1986, School of Business Administration, University of. California, Berkeley.
Boesky's words were later picked up in Oliver Stone's film, Wall Street (1987), spoken by Gordon Gecko. Boesky himself was later convicted of conspiring to file false documents with the federal government, involving insider trading violations, and agreed to pay $100 million in fines and illicit profits.)
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We gave 'em wings to fly and they rained death on us. We gave 'em a voice to be heard around the world and they preach hatred to poison the minds of nations. Even the medicine we gave them to ease their pain is turned into a vice to enslave half mankind for the profit of a few. Ah, Janet, dear, don't you see? Every gift that science has given them has been twisted into a thing of hate and greed.
(Karl Brown (1897-1990), U.S. screenwriter, and Nick Grindé. Dr. Henryk Savaard (Boris Karloff), The Man They Could Not Hang, explaining to his daughter why he's decided never to reveal the secret of his resurrection (1939).
Story by Leslie T. White and George W. Sayre; greed additional subject.)
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The women who take husbands not out of love but out of greed, to get their bills paid, to get a fine house and clothes and jewels; the women who marry to get out of a tiresome job, or to get away from disagreeable relatives, or to avoid being called an old maid—these are whores in everything but name. The only difference between them and my girls is that my girls gave a man his money's worth.
(Polly Adler (1900-1962), U.S. brothel-keeper. A House Is Not a Home, ch. 10 (1953).)
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