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" A newspaper is a public trust, and we will suffer as a society without them. It is not the Internet that has killed them. It is their own greed, it is their own stupidity, and it is capitalism that has taken our daily newspapers from us. "

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

" At a time when unbridled greed, malignant aggression, and existence of weapons of mass destruction threatens the survival of humanity, we should seriously consider any avenue that offers some hope. "

" At the heart of every really good Christmas movie is the threat, I suppose, to Christmas. Something is wrong with Christmas, in all of these movies. In 'The Polar Express,' there's a kid that doesn't really believe, and that's the threat to Christmas. In 'Santa Claus: The Movie,' jealousy and greed are threatening to overrun his Christmas. "

" Buddhism talks about the possibility of transforming greed, hatred, and delusion. But sometimes need turns into greed. "

" But at a certain point, and I don't really know... people have asked me this. I don't know exactly what it was that pushed me towards directing, but I think it was a naive notion that if I directed I would be able to play all the roles. A kind of greed. "

Peter Bogdanovich

" But love, like the sun that it is, sets afire and melts everything. what greed and privilege to build up over whole centuries the indignation of a pious spirit, with its natural following of oppressed souls, will cast down with a single shove. "

" But men are so full of greed today, they'll sell anything for a little piece of money. "

" Calm self-confidence is as far from conceit as the desire to earn a decent living is remote from greed. "

Channing Pollock

" Capitalism is against the things that we say we believe in - democracy, freedom of choice, fairness. It's not about any of those things now. It's about protecting the wealthy and legalizing greed. "

" Christopher Finazzo had a great job that paid him millions of dollars, but this honest living was apparently not enough to satisfy his greed. "

" Con men look for human frailty to exploit. This is most often greed. Trump found a different vice: anger. The emotional are always the most susceptible to manipulation. "

" Deregulation created this epidemic of greed which according to the rules of capitalism was OK. Beyond that there was criminal behaviour. There have been no repercussions and it's hard to make your peace with. "

" Disproportionate corporate power over governments is giving license to the greed that denies workers even minimum living wages. It is also seemingly a license to allow the sheer brutality of treatment of working people at the base of the supply chains. "

" During periods of extreme fear or greed, you don't have the proper balance between those two to generate market efficiency and you get extremes in behavior. "

" Even in a time of elephantine vanity and greed, one never has to look far to see the campfires of gentle people. "

Garrison Keillor

" Everything I had been taught to regard as a vice - and I still regard them as vices - under Thatcherism was in fact a virtue: Greed, selfishness, no care for the weaker, sharp elbows, sharp knees. "

" Fear, greed and hope have destroyed more portfolio value than any recession or depression we have ever been through. "

James O'Shaughnessy

" Fear tends to manifest itself much more quickly than greed, so volatile markets tend to be on the downside. In up markets, volatility tends to gradually decline. "

" Fifa cannot sit by and see greed rule the football world. Nor shall we. "

" For greed all nature is too little. "

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

" For the exploitation of human greed, they have devised comparison and competition. Right from childhood on, we are indoctrinated to compare and compete, and there is a word, a phrase: 'free and fair competition.' "

" For too long, humanity has acted with an outrageous lack of responsibility. We wanted everything for ourselves: greed, really. We failed to look at the overall picture and did not take into consideration those with whom we share the world. "

" From the first day to this, sheer greed was the driving spirit of civilization. "

Friedrich Engels

" Governments are composed of human beings, and all of the frailties that humans possess are absorbed into these governments and become active within these governments. Hatred, anger, jealousy, fear, greed, distrust and the whole host of afflictions that humans must bear, lurk just beneath the surface of civility displayed by 'government.' "

" Greed and Gain, grim guardians of the great god Mammon, continually cry in the ears of the poor, 'Give us your little ones!' And forever do the poor push out their little ones at the imperious ukase, feeding the children to a blind Hunger that is never filled. "

" Greed and globalization aren't just America's fault. "

" Greed can't again lead the way. We've taken that route before with terrible consequences for this nation and its people. "

Johanna Siguroardottir

" Greed has been with human beings forever. We have a number of things in our species that you would call 'the dark side,' and greed is one of them. If you don't put certain structures in place or restrictions on those parts of our being that come from that dark place, then it gets out of control. "

" Greed has driven the world crazy. And I think I'm lucky that I have a place over here that I can call home. "

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