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quotes by topic Greed

" All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry. "

Edgar Allan Poe

Imagination , Religion , Poetry , Fear , Fraud , Greed

" The writer's greed is appalling. He wants, or seems to want, everything and practically everybody, in another sense, and at the same time, he needs no one at all. "

James A. Baldwin

Want , Time , Greed , Sense , Writer

" I think one of the most pervasive evils in this world is greed and acquiring money for money's sake. Once you have six houses and a plane, it's just about a number. It's never been anything I understood. "

World , Money , Greed , Houses

" I don't have to do the lead. If I dig a part, I'll do it. "

World , Money , Greed , Houses

" There is a lesson there about greed and it is a lesson I am willing to learn as well. Has it made me a distrustful person? I don't think so. But we probably look a bit more carefully at our financial situation now. "

Now , Greed , Financial

" I saw the horrible way that people could treat each other. That may be the saddest thing of all. I saw greed and anger and murder and a total lack of concern for human life. It was a wicked side of the human soul that I saw... and it saddened me to know that such a dark place existed. "

People , Greed , Dark

" If the heart is fed by love, the greed for pleasure would disappear. "

Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya

Heart , Pleasure , Greed

" In the second and third exiles we have served as a living protest against greed and hate, against physical force, against "might makes right"! "

Greed , Hate , Might

" If everybody's behavior can be explained by simple stupidity and greed, there's no point in assuming a conspiracy. "

Stupidity , Greed , simple

" Patience leads to power; but eagerness in greed leads to loss. "

H. P. Blavatsky

Greed , Patience , Loss

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