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In my world, people are always plotting. You have no idea of all the crimes people in business commit every day. Like it was nothing. Or there’s a set of special rules for them. Remember when Bush made that whole speech about ‘corporate ethics’ last year? What a fraud. You think stuff like Enron or WorldCom is an aberration? It’s only the tip. Business is a religion. Probably the only one practiced all over the world.


Andrew Vachss


#business #corporate-greed #crime #enron #worldcom

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

But it's such a waste... You came to a place so near the sky but still can't see the stars.


Detective Conan


#desperation #greed #hopelessly-going-after-something #greed

Her lips twitched when she quietly read. But if you fall I will be there To pick the pieces of your shattered soul “Shattered,” she murmured to herself. “Shattered soul? Isn’t that too serious? No, I think he will get it.” She continued to write. And put them back together I will solder them into a whole With the heat of my love I will stay. I will hold the time still.


Angela Orlowski-Peart


#love

His strength for your weakness! His wisdom for your folly! His drive for your drift! His grace for your greed! His love for your lust! His peace for your problems! His joy for your sorrow! His plenty for your poverty!


Major Thomas


#drive #folly #grace #greed #joy

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


#greed #human-nature #change

[I]t is not by being richer or more powerful that a man becomes better; one is a matter of fortune, the other of virtue. Nor should she deem herself other than venal who weds a rich man rather than a poor, and desires more things in her husband than himself. Assuredly, whomsoever this concupiscence leads into marriage deserves payment rather than affection.


Héloïse d'Argenteuil


#concupiscence #dignity #fortune #greed #honesty

Better to be happy with the cod fish in your plate now, than to linger for the taste of a tuna that is still swimming in the sea.


Dennis E. Adonis


#contentment #decisions #greed #happiness #love






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