Quotations About / On: GREED

  • 31.
    A wise man should order his interests, and set them all in their proper places. This order is often troubled by greed, which puts us upon pursuing so many things at once that, in eagerness for matters of less consideration, we grasp at trifles, and let go things of greater value.
    (François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680), French writer, moralist. repr. F.A. Stokes Co., New York (c. 1930). Moral Maxims and Reflections, no. 67 (1665-1678), trans. London (1706).)
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  • 32.
    Great is my envy of you, earth, in your greed
    Folding her in invisible embrace,
    Denying me the look of the sweet face
    Where I found peace from all my strife at need!
    (Petrarch (1304-1374), Italian poet (FRANCESCO PETRARCA). Sonnets to Laura in Death (l. 36-40). NAWM-1. The Norton Anthology of World Masterpieces. Vol. I. Maynard Mack, general ed. (5th ed., 1985) W. W. Norton.)
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  • 33.
    From top to bottom of the ladder, greed is aroused without knowing where to find ultimate foothold. Nothing can calm it, since its goal is far beyond all it can attain. Reality seems valueless by comparison with the dreams of fevered imaginations; reality is therefore abandoned.
    (Emile Durkheim (1858-1917), French sociologist. Suicide, bk. 2, ch. 5, sct. 3 (1897, trans. 1951).)
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  • 34.
    The media have just buried the last yuppie, a pathetic creature who had not heard the news that the great pendulum of public conciousness has just swung from Greed to Compassion and from Tex-Mex to meatballs.
    (Barbara Ehrenreich (b. 1941), U.S. author, columnist. (First published 1988). "Goodbye To The Work Ethic," The Worst Years of Our Lives (1991).)
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  • 35.
    If you take away ideology, you are left with a case by case ethics which in practise ends up as me first, me only, and in rampant greed.
    (Richard Nelson (b. 1950), U.S. playwright. Independent (London, July 12, 1989).)
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  • 36.
    More than an end to war, we want an end to the beginnings of all wars. Yes, an end to this brutal, inhuman and thoroughly impractical method of settling the differences between Governments. The once powerful malignant Nazi state is crumbling; the Japanese warlords are receiving in their homelands the retribution for which they asked when they attacked Pearl Harbor. But the mere conquest of our enemies is not enough; we must go on to do all in our power to conquer the doubts and the fears, the ignorance and the greed, which made this horror possible.
    (Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882-1945), U.S. president. FDR Speaks authorized edition of speeches, 1933-1945 (recordings of Franklin Roosevelt's public addresses), side 12, undelivered address, Jefferson Day, given here by FDR, Jr. (April 13, 1945), ed. Henry Steele Commager, Introduction by Eleanor Roosevelt, Washington Records, Inc. (1960). In this last speech he planned to deliver (the day after his fatal stroke), FDR appealed to Americans to enter into the United Nations with the intent of never allowing the conditions which brought on two world wars to occur again. This was a ringing challenge to ignore the siren songs of neo-isolationists and to work whole heartedly in the international arena to settle disputes amicably.)
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  • 37.
    Vices are character traits. Sins are specific acts of commission or omission. Once Judaism and Christianity adopted the concepts of vice and virtue from the Greek and Roman moralists, vices were often called sins and sins vices. The seven deadly "sins" are also called the deadly "vices," which is more accurate. They are basic, perhaps universal human tendencies, from which sins result. The vice of anger spawns the sin of violence against others and the vice of greed gives birth to the sin of theft.
    (Solomon Schimmel, U.S. psychologist, educator. The Seven Deadly Sins, ch. 1, Free Press (1992).)
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  • 38.
    Swan/Mary Rutledge: Listen, listen to them. Men like to yell, don't they? They imagine they are millionaires already.
    Col. Cobb: More than that. They've all left lives behind them they didn't like. They all dream of being reborn in the new land.
    Swan: Do they? Or do they dream of gold?
    Col. Cobb: No, no, Miss Rutledge. Behind that fog, lies not only sand filled with gold, but a new empire for men of vision.
    Swan: Men of vision. Oh, I love the fine names men give each other to hide their greed and lust for adventure.
    (Ben Hecht (1893-1964), U.S. writer, screenwriter, Charles Macarthur U.S., screenwriter, Edward Chodorov U.S., screenwiter, and Howard Hawks. Swan/Mary Rutledge (Miriam Hopkins), Colonel Cobb (Frank Craven), Barbary Coast, commenting on the gold prospectors who have swarmed to San Francisco (1935).)
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