#greed

Although Ronald Reagan was somebody I disagreed with on most ideological things, he was a friend of mine, and he was a very, very likable man. Ronald Reagan, for instance, was maybe more able to get the very rich to do the right thing sometimes. ↗

— Warren Beatty

#able man #although #disagreed #do the right thing #friend

There are a lot of people who really abused sampling and gave it a bad name, by just taking people's entire hit songs and rapping over them. It gave publishers license to get a little greedy. ↗

— Beck

#entire #gave #get #greedy #hit

I want an Oompa-Loompa!' screamed Veruca. ↗

— Roald Dahl

#role-models #greed

Are you not ashamed of caring so much for the making of money and for fame and prestige, when you neither think nor care about wisdom and truth and the improvement of your soul? ↗

— Socrates

#philosophy #socrates #truth #wisdom #money

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