An understandable hunger for. . . potential clients tempts many [career counseling therapists] to overpromise, like creative writing teachers who, out of greed or sentimentality, sometimes imply that all of their students could one day produce worthwhile literature, rather than frankly acknowledging the troubling truth, anathema to a democratic society, that the great writer, like the contented worker, remains an erratic and anomalous event,. . . immune to the methods of factory farming.
Through the machineries of greed, pettiness, and the abuse of power, love occurs.
Let us wage a moral and political war against the billionaires and corporate leaders, on Wall Street and elsewhere, whose policies and greed are destroying the middle class of America.
Organized greed always defeats disorganized democracy.
It's a mystery to me; We have a greed, with which we have agreed. You think you have to want more than you need. Until you have it all, you won't be free.
We want to bear witness today that we know the relation between corporate greed and what goes on too often in the Supreme Court decisions.
Jesus warns people far more often about greed than about sex, yet almost no one thinks they are guilty of it.
There is no vice which humankind carries to such wild extremes as that of avarice.
Do you want to know the cause of war? It is capitalism, greed, the dirty hunger for dollars. Take away the capitalist and you will sweep war from the earth.
Greed is costly. Assembled fortunes are lost.
Greed's worst point is its ingratitude.
The world in many ways would be a much calmer and gentler place if women ruled. There would have been fewer children sacrificed to the gods of greed and power.
Rather than teasing the buyers, we may blame the society in which they lived for setting up a situation where the purchase of ornate cabinets felt psychologically necessary and rewarding, where respect was dependent on baroque displays. Rather than a tale of greed, the history of luxury could more accurately be read as a record of emotional trauma. It is the legacy of those who have felt pressured by the disdain of others to add an extraordinary amount to their bare selves in order to signal that they too may lay a claim to love.
The true antidote to greed is contentment. If you have a strong sense of contentment, it doesn't matter whether you obtain the object of your desire or not. Either way, you are still content.
One interesting thing about greed is that although the underlying motive is to seek satisfaction, the irony is that even after obtaining the object of your desire you are still not satisfied. The true antidote of greed is contentment.
The whole plan of extermination was nothing less than a cold blooded, calculated political measure, having for its object the annihilation of a superior element in the population, which might prove troublesome, and to this must be added the motive of greed.
Wall Street is broken for sure because it succumbed to greed and corruption and pure speculation with no values.
Lust and greed are more gullible than innocence.
Oh, the jealousy, the greed is the unraveling. It's the unraveling and it undoes all the joy that could be. .
Well, once you get involved with bloodsport litigation, you can not only get drunk on your own greed but start to believe your own lies.