#greed

Hell has three gates: lust, anger, and greed ↗

— Bhagavad Gita

#greed #hell #inspirational-religious #lust #anger

We didn't become the most prosperous country in the world just by rewarding greed and recklessness. We didn't come this far by letting the special interests run wild. We didn't do it just by gambling and chasing paper profits on Wall Street. We built this country by making things, by producing goods we could sell. ↗

— Barack Obama

#built #chasing #come #could #country

In December, I agreed to extend the tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans because it was the only way I could prevent a tax hike on middle-class Americans. But we cannot afford $1 trillion worth of tax cuts for every millionaire and billionaire in our society. We can't afford it. And I refuse to renew them again. ↗

— Barack Obama

#again #agreed #because #billionaire #cannot

All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry. ↗

— Edgar Allan Poe

#fear #fraud #friend #greed #imagination

My cameraman and I devised a method, which we started using from my second film, which applies mainly to day scenes shot in the studio, where we used bounced light instead of direct light. We agreed with this thing of four or five shadows following the actors is dreadful. ↗

— Satyajit Ray

#applies #bounced #cameraman #day #devised

There's a stability and growth pact which was agreed for the eleven countries which tries to limit the size of budget deficits among the eleven countries. ↗

— Robert C. Solomon

#among #budget #budget deficits #countries #deficits

I'm getting too old to play some parts, but I'm still greedy. ↗

— Max von Sydow

#greedy #i #old #parts #play

For greed all nature is too little. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#little #nature #too

We are all born brave, trusting and greedy, and most of us remain greedy. ↗

— Mignon McLaughlin

#brave #greedy #most #remain #trusting

Money is neither my god nor my devil. It is a form of energy that tends to make us more of who we already are, whether it's greedy or loving. ↗

— Dan Millman

#devil #energy #form #god #greedy