#greed

My head can get to murder and rape for profit because I can understand greed as a human motive, but I cannot understand the voyeuristic desire to watch such a film. I can comprehend one and I cannot comprehend the other. ↗

— Donna Leon

#cannot #comprehend #desire #film #get

Every mind which has given itself to self-expression in art is aware of a directing agency outside its conscious control which it has agreed to label 'inspiration'. ↗

— Norman Lindsay

#agreed #art #aware #conscious #control

The greedy bastard, thought Weintî. He knows perfectly well that twenty shekels is the going rate for a female household slave of my age. ↗

— Betty Cross

#slave #age

I agreed with everything he was saying when he ran for president. I was listening to what he said. I go, this guy thinks like me and I agree with him. Now he's changing. All he keeps saying is millionaires and billionaires don't pay their fair share of taxes. ↗

— Jon Lovitz

#agreed #billionaires #changing #everything #fair

Men of vision. Oh, I love the fine names men give each other to hide their greed and lust for adventure. ↗

— Charles MacArthur

#each #fine #give #greed #hide

It used to be that we disagreed over the basic facts we were fighting over, and we had different opinions about them. Now I think we accept different sources of authority. ... And people can establish credibility on their own say-so as long as nobody follows the trail and calls them out on it. ↗

— Rachel Maddow

#accept #authority #basic #calls #credibility

I have never in my life learned anything from any man who agreed with me. ↗

— Dudley Field Malone

#any #anything #i #learned #life

I'm greedy and ambitious like everybody else. ↗

— David Mamet

#else #everybody #everybody else #greedy #i

But love, like the sun that it is, sets afire and melts everything. what greed and privilege to build up over whole centuries the indignation of a pious spirit, with its natural following of oppressed souls, will cast down with a single shove. ↗

— Jose Marti

#build #cast #centuries #down #everything

We wanted to be certain they didn't have a bigger deficit, and Kennedy agreed with me. ↗

— Wilbur Mills

#bigger #certain #deficit #kennedy #me