Stealing to eat ain’t criminal—stealing to be rich is.

Andrew Vachss

Mots clés greed crime



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...capitalism satisfied the Christian demand for an institution that channels selfish human desire toward the betterment of society. Some critics accuse capitalism of being a selfish system, but the selfishness is not in capitalism - it is in human nature.

Dinesh D'Souza

Mots clés christianity capitalism greed



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Most of the mess that is called history comes about because kings and presidents cannot be satisfied with a nice chicken and a good loaf of bread.

Jennifer Donnelly

Mots clés history revolution greed presidents kings



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For avarice begins where poverty ends.

Honoré de Balzac

Mots clés poverty greed avarice



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They can talk shit about each other behind the others' backs, but when it comes down to it, money is the one true race and everyone down here is the color of greenbacks and as tall as mountains.

Richard Kadrey

Mots clés money society relationships greed pride cynical



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If I have to build a big company by mistreating other people then the Bible says WOE to me. I don't know what that is, but I don't want any of it.

Joyce Meyer

Mots clés greed



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Holmes took up the stone and held it against the light. "It's a bonny thing," said he. "Just see how it glints and sparkles. Of course it is a nucleus and focus of crime. Every good stone is. They are the devil's pet baits. In the larger and older jewels every facet may stand for a bloody deed. This stone is not yet twenty years old. It was found in the banks of the Amoy River in soutern China and is remarkable in having every characteristic of the carbuncle, save that it is blue in shade instead of ruby red. In spite of its youth, it has already a sinister history. There have been two murders, a vitriol-throwing, a suicide, and several robberies brought about for the sake of this forty-grain weight of crystallised charcoal. Who would think that so pretty a toy would be a purveyor to the gallows and the prison?

Arthur Conan Doyle

Mots clés sherlock-holmes murder greed crime gems jewels precious-stones



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Declare your jihad on thirteen enemies you cannot see -egoism, arrogance, conceit, selfishness, greed, lust, intolerance, anger, lying, cheating, gossiping and slandering. If you can master and destroy them, then you will be read to fight the enemy you can see.

Abu Hamid al-Ghazali

Mots clés lust arrogance lying selfishness intolerance conceit anger greed islam jihad cheating egoism gossiping slandering



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Political corruption, social greed, and Americanized quasi-socialism can ruin even the most wonderful places. California proved that.

Tiffany Madison

Mots clés politics capitalism corruption greed california socialism politics-of-the-united-states



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To do what you imply would require nothing short of divine intervention. you must change man, not systems. Can you and our vapouring friends of the Literary Chamber of Rennes, or any other learned society of France, devise a system of government that has never yet been tried? Surely not. And can we say of any system tried that it proved other than failure in the end? My dear Philippe, the future is to be read with certainty only in the past. Ad actu ad posse valet consecutio. Man never changes. He is always greedy, always acquisitive, always vile. I am speaking of Man in the bulk.

Rafael Sabatini

Mots clés human-nature government greed



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