#greed

I think mankind is overly sensitive, very needy, greedy, and flawed. ↗

— Craig Kilborn

#greedy #i #i think #mankind #needy

Leadership is a privilege to better the lives of others. It is not an opportunity to satisfy personal greed. ↗

— Mwai Kibaki

#greed #leadership #lives #opportunity #others

I think we all share a view about wanting to make sure we have a healthy river and we're looking forward to the plan and in the lead-up to that we've agreed to speak again. ↗

— Jay Weatherill

#again #agreed #forward #healthy #i

Greed has driven the world crazy. And I think I'm lucky that I have a place over here that I can call home. ↗

— Nina Simone

#crazy #driven #greed #here #home

We've talked to the Europeans about it. It's clear if those negotiations fail, then we are agreed with the Europeans that the next step is to take the matter to the U.N. Security Council. ↗

— Stephen Hadley

#agreed #clear #council #europeans #fail

The basis of tragedy is man's helplessness against disease, war and death; the basis of comedy is man's helplessness against vanity (the vanity of love, greed, lust, power). ↗

— Dawn Powell

#basis #comedy #death #disease #greed

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

#class #failed-systems #greed #dreams

Jatred’s white teeth flashed in an inviting smirk. To irritate the men even more, he motioned to them with his hand, ending the movement with a flip of his middle finger. “Come and get it, grandpas,” he hissed. ↗

— Angela Orlowski-Peart

#men

History is a set of lies agreed upon. ↗

— Napoleon Bonaparte

#history #lies #set #upon

Our labour preserves us from three great evils -- weariness, vice, and want. ↗

— Voltaire

#evil #greed #labor #need #vice