Our economy is based on spending billions to persuade people that happiness is buying things, and then insisting that the only way to have a viable economy is to make things for people to buy so they’ll have jobs and get enough money to buy things.
Philip SlaterTags: capitalism greed materialism economy commercialism endless-circles failed-systems pursuit-of-loneliness stuff-things
Thus did a handful of rapacious citizens come to control all that was worth controlling in America. Thus was the savage and stupid and entirely inappropriate and unnecessary and humorless American class system created. Honest, industrious, peaceful citizens were classed as bloodsuckers, if they asked to be paid a living wage. And they saw that praise was reserved henceforth for those who devised means of getting paid enormously for committing crimes against which no laws had been passed. Thus the American dream turned belly up, turned green, bobbed to the scummy surface of cupidity unlimited, filled with gas, went bang in the noonday sun.
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Tags: capitalism class greed failed-systems
There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it.
Maya AngelouIt didn´t occur to me until later that there´s another truth, very simple: greed in a good cause is still greed.
Stephen KingSaid will be a little ahead, but done should follow at his heel.
Charles Haddon SpurgeonEven the most beautiful scenery is no longer assured of our love after we have lived in it for three months, and some distant coast attracts our avarice: possessions are generally diminished by possession.
Friedrich NietzscheTags: greed possession
I was simultaneously elated and depressed, a common enough state of mind these days when people are offered a great deal of money to do something repugnant.
James Hamilton-PatersonTags: greed
Either the key to a man's wallet is in his heart, or the key to a man's heart is in his wallet.
So, unless you express your charity, you are locked inside your greed.
Tags: greed generosity
There is no fire like passion, there is no shark like hatred, there is no snare like folly, there is no torrent like greed.
Gautama BuddhaTags: passion hatred greed fire buddha folly shark snare torrent
Among the rich you will never find a really generous man even by accident. They may give their money away, but they will never give themselves away; they are egotistic, secretive, dry as old bones. To be smart enough to get all that money you must be dull enough to want it.
G.K. ChestertonTags: wealth greed generosity
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