All Quotes By Tag: Greedy

“Some social ills are preserved by the common misbelief that things such as ignorance, greed, and stupidity do not have the stamina required to reach old age.”

Card image cap - Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Tag: adage, adages, aphorism, aphorisms, axiom, axioms, belief, beliefs, deep, dictum, dictums, endurance, endure, epigram, epigrams, gnome, gnomes, greed, greedy, humor, humour, ignorance, ignorant, insightful, knowledge, knowledgeable, made-me-think, make-you-think, maxim, maxims, misbelief, misbeliefs, old, old-age, old-age-home, old-age-homes, preservation, preserve, problem, problems, profound, proverb, proverbs, provoke-thought, quotation, quotations, quote, quotes, retire, retired, retirement, satire, satirical, saying, sayings, social, social-ill, social-ills, societal, society, stamina, stupid, stupidity, thought-provoking, thoughtful, wisdom, wise, young,

“Greed is a contagious mental illness without which civilization as we know it would not have been possible.”

Card image cap - Mokokoma Mokhonoana,
Tag: acquisitiveness, adage, adages, africa, african, aphorism, aphorisms, avarice, axiom, axioms, capitalism, civilization, civilize, civilized, contagious, covetousness, cupidity, deep, dictum, dictums, epigram, epigrams, funny, gnome, gnomes, greed, greedy, humor, humorous, humour, impossible, insightful, made-me-think, make-you-think, materialism, maxim, maxims, mental-illness, mentally-ill, mercenariness, philosopher, possible, profound, progress, proverb, proverbs, provoke-thought, quotation, quotations, quote, quote-of-the-day, quotes, rapacity, satire, satirical, satirist, satirists, saying, sayings, selfish, selfishness, selfless, selflessness, south-africa, south-african, thought-provoking, thoughtful,

“For their never-ending endeavours to obtain or retain wealth, countries desperately need companies, because they—unlike most human beings—have the means of production, and human beings, because they—unlike all companies—have the means of reproduction.”

Card image cap - Mokokoma Mokhonoana,
Tag: adage, adages, africa, african, aphorism, aphorisms, axiom, axioms, birth, birthrate, birthrates, business, businesses, buy, buyer, child, childfree, childless, children, commerce, community, companies, company, consumer, consumers, countries, country, death-rate, death-rates, deep, dependent, dependents, depopulation, dictum, dictums, economic-growth, economics, economy, employ, employed, employment, endeavor, endeavors, endeavour, endeavours, epigram, epigrams, exploit, exploitation, funny, gnome, gnomes, greed, greedy, humor, humorous, humour, insightful, job, jobs, kid, kids, made-me-think, make-you-think, maxim, maxims, means, means-of-production, means-of-reproduction, obtain, philosopher, population, population-pyramid, pregnancy, pregnant, procreate, procreation, production, profit, profitability, profound, proverb, proverbs, provoke-thought, quotation, quotations, quote, quote-of-the-day, quotes, reproduce, reproduction, retain, retire, retirement, satire, satirical, satirist, satirists, saying, sayings, selfish-selfishness, sell, sellers, selling, sex, sexual-intercourse, south-africa, south-african, thought-provoking, thoughtful, unemployed, unemployment, wealth, wealthy, work, worker, workers,

“Many obese people spend a significant amount of their energy on suppressing the urge to tell some of the people who are staring at them that they do not eat as much and as frequently as they seem to.”

Card image cap - Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Tag: angular, anorexia, anorexic, aphorism, aphorisms, aphorist, aphorists, as-thin-as-a-rake, beefy, beer-bellied, big-boned, blubbery, bony, chubbiness, chubby, chunky, corpulence, corpulent, diet, eat, emaciated, energies, energy, fat, fatness, fatty, flabbiness, flabby, fleshy, food, funny, gangling, gangly, gaunt, gawky, gaze, gazing, glutton, gluttony, greed, greedy, gross, grossness, heavyset, hilarious, hollow-cheeked, humor, humorous, humour, impression, joke, jokes, junk, junk-food, lanky, large, lean, looking-like-a-bag-of-bones, meaty, obese, obesity, of-ample-proportions, overweight, paunchy, pinched, plump, plumpness, plus-sized, porky, portliness, portly, potbellied, pudgy, quotations, quotes, rangy, rawboned, repress, repression, roly-poly, rotundity, satire, scraggy, scrawny, skeletal, skin-and-bones, skinny, slender, slim, spindly, stare, staring, sticklike, stout, stoutness, suppress, suppression, takeaway, takeaways, takeout, takeouts, thin, tubby, underfed, undernourished, urge, urges, waiflike, well-upholstered,

“Happiness can be a dangerous thing; it can make you greedy for more.”

Card image cap - David Clawson,
Tag: cinderella, dangerous, fairy-godmother, greedy, happiness, retellings,

“A system is corrupt when it is strictly profit-driven, not driven to serve the best interests of its people.”

- Suzy Kassem,
Tag: administration, capitalism, capitalistic, capitalistic-greed, capitalists, censorship, corporate-gain, corrupt, corruption, defunct, democracy, democratic, dysfunctional, empire, government, government-corruption, greed, greed-corruption, greedy, humanity-quotes, hypocrisy, interests, justice, leadership, money, nation, not-working, people, plutocracy, policies, profit, profit-drive, profitability, profits, rulership, social-system, social-systems, society, system, truth,

“Profit should never come at the cost of human blood. Any government that places profit before people is pure evil.”

- Suzy Kassem,
Tag: blood, casualties, citizens, colonialism, corrupt, corruption-blood, crooked, crooks, dirty-politics, establishment, evil, government, greed, greedy, human, human-life, imperialism, people, people-before-profit, people-before-profits, people-over-profit, political, politicians, president, profit, suzy-kassem, truth,

“What good is having all of the cookies when you can’t eat anymore?”

- Anthony T. Hincks
Tag: cookies, eat, good, greedy, having, life, philosophy, sharing,

“I am awfully greedy; I want everything from life. I want to be a woman and to be a man, to have many friends and to have loneliness, to work much and write good books, to travel and enjoy myself, to be selfish and to be unselfish… You see, it is difficult to get all which I want. And then when I do not succeed I get mad with anger.”

Card image cap - Simone de Beauvoir
Tag: anger, books, friends, greedy, life, loneliness, man, myself, selfish, travel, woman, work, write,