#greed

Wealth is neither an ends nor a means, it is a symptom. ↗

— Christopher Dutton

#money #wealth #money

Rulers do not reduce taxes to be kind. Expediency and greed create high taxation, and normally it takes an impending catastrophe to bring it down. ↗

— Charles Adams

#bring #catastrophe #create #down #expediency

It has happened to me to meet many of the men of my day whom the world agreed to call great. ↗

— Rebecca Harding Davis

#call #day #great #happened #many

It is greed to do all the talking but not to want to listen at all. ↗

— Democritus

#listen #talking #want

We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter. ↗

— Denis Diderot

#bitter #find #flatters #greedily #lie

While I have corrected agreed factual errors, I have not been inhibited from writing what I felt to be the truth about The Prince of Wales. ↗

— Jonathan Dimbleby

#agreed #been #corrected #errors #factual

Fifa cannot sit by and see greed rule the football world. Nor shall we. ↗

— Sepp Blatter

#fifa #football #greed #nor #rule

We've been raised to compete, to want more! More! More! It's a way of life. It's about greed. ↗

— Sandy Duncan

#been #compete #greed #life #more

The ignorant mind, with its infinite afflictions, passions, and evils, is rooted in the three poisons. Greed, anger, and delusion. ↗

— Bodhidharma

#anger #delusion #evils #greed #ignorant

But at a certain point, and I don't really know... people have asked me this. I don't know exactly what it was that pushed me towards directing, but I think it was a naive notion that if I directed I would be able to play all the roles. A kind of greed. ↗

— Peter Bogdanovich

#asked #certain #certain point #directed #directing