#greed

The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty. Plainly, the sheep and the wolf are not agreed upon a definition of liberty. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#agreed #definition #destroyer #drives #him

The sea does not reward those who are too anxious, too greedy, or too impatient. One should lie empty, open, choiceless as a beach - waiting for a gift from the sea. ↗

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

#beach #does #empty #gift #greedy

Climatologists are all agreed that we'd be lucky to see the end of this century without the world being a totally different place, and being 8 or 9 degrees hotter on average. ↗

— James Lovelock

#average #being #century #degrees #different

Of mankind we may say in general they are fickle, hypocritical, and greedy of gain. ↗

— Niccolo Machiavelli

#gain #general #greedy #hypocritical #mankind

Yes, but also one of the problems for a novelist in Ireland is the fact that there are no formal manners. I mean some people have beautiful manners but there's no kind of agreed form of manners. ↗

— John McGahern

#also #beautiful #fact #form #formal

He who is silent must be agreed with, for what shall the wings of opposition thresh upon, without the winds of conversation to shoulder them. ↗

— Bryant H. McGill

#conversation #must #opposition #shall #shoulder

First of all, I think all countries in the world have agreed it is not in anyone's interest to test-fire a missile, or whatever its is. ↗

— Lee Myung-bak

#anyone #countries #first #first of all #i

Are we like late Rome, infatuated with past glories, ruled by a complacent, greedy elite, and hopelessly powerless to respond to changing conditions? ↗

— Camille Paglia

#complacent #conditions #elite #glories #greedy

I talked with Brian Stokes Mitchell, who agreed with me that if you have a gift there is always stuff to do. ↗

— Estelle Parsons

#always #brian #gift #i #me

Why are we in this mess, now facing the prospect of economic armageddon? It's because the prevailing characteristic has been greed, and it doesn't matter whether it's individuals living beyond their means or governments living beyond their means or people seeking to get rich quick. ↗

— Jeremy Paxman

#because #been #beyond #characteristic #economic