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  • I've personally demanded that tyrants let their people go. I've tried to feed the hungry, clothe the poor, protect the elderly and infirm, and defend the needy from the aggressively greedy. I've led a blessed life. What a kick for a kid from the projects.

  • Poor people can be greedy, too. It's just that they don't have any material resources. We need shaping of the souls as well as shaping of our institutions.

    Source: www.pbs.org
  • The sham engineers of the music industry, who steer the wheels of public opinion, are driving the good features of calypso into the ground. I shudder to think what these greedy men will eventually do to this true art form.

    New Musical Express Magazine, May 1957.
  • The heavy red roses smoldering in the foggy morning, blood-colored and uninhibited, made me greedy, and tempted me powerfully to steal one--I asked the prices merely so I could come as near them as possible.

    Knut Hamsun (2008). “Hunger: A Novel”, p.43, Macmillan
  • To be selfish, greedy and unwilling to help the needy gives rise to future starvation and clothlessness.

  • Socialism is a fundamentally different social system where the world's resources are not controlled by a greedy, undemocratic oligarchy. This is not the same as the capitalist welfare states that have existed in some European countries.

    Source: www.socialistalternative.org
  • One of the ideals [Margaret Thatcher] grew up with was self-denial and postponement of gratification, and yet she went about to create a greedy, short-term society. It is a paradox.

    Source: newrepublic.com
  • Of all the vices, avarice is the most generally detested; it is the effect of an avidity common to all men; it is because men hate those from whom they can expect nothing. The greedy misers rail at sordid misers.

  • Those who have much are often greedy. Those who have little always share.

    "Complete Works of Oscar Wilde".
  • Be fearful when the markets get greedy, be greedy when the markets get fearful.

  • Greedy for the property of others, extravagant with his own

    'Catiline' ch. 5
  • I eat too much. I drink to much. A greedy selfish such-n-such. But when I wrap my turban on my mind is clear, I'm 'Baba Lon'.

  • If we go on using the Earth uncaringly and without replenishing it, then we are just greedy consumers.

  • The thing about Occupy is that the sentiment the movement embodies is timeless: Don't be greedy, share.

    "Joseph Gordon-Levitt on 'The Tiny Book of Tiny Stories'". Interview with Yvonne Villarreal, latimesblogs.latimes.com. December 5, 2011.
  • We don't have to be that greedy generation that just continued to take down the underpinnings of what makes the planet work in our favor.

    Source: www.spiegel.de
  • Marketers keep inventing desires, necessities for you and for me. I need this. I need that. I need. I need. It's the need of a smoking fit. If you don't smoke that cigarette now, you'll die - when in reality you die because you succumb to the rage and rattle of the needy greed that keeps you busy needing more and more things. Is this the American Dream - the greedy need?

    "United States of Banana". Book by Giannina Braschi, 2011.
  • The happiness and peace attained by those satisfied by the nectar of spiritual tranquillity is not attained by greedy persons restlessly moving here and there.

  • People who drink too much, health, and greedy. Hoard a treasure we do not like.

  • if you were older you might agree with me. you might say that real love steals nothing. you might say that real love leaves a person intact. you would be wrong, jane. love is a greedy toddler who knows only the word 'mine.

  • God is inexhaustible in His gifts to men? Everywhere we see plenty and joy; only the greedy rich lay their hands on and keep in their treasuries too many of God's gifts, which might plentifully nourish hundreds and thousands of poor. Man! Believe firmly in God's inexhaustibility in His gifts, and willingly 'deal your bread to the hungry' (Isa. 58:7)?

  • As you get older you feel you need to pay more attention to what is around you and relish it. I'm greedy for beauty.

    "Bill Nighy: 'I'm greedy for beauty'". Interview With Nigel Farndale, www.theguardian.com. February 8, 2015.
  • I'm not greedy. I just want my half.

  • This account of him [Thomas More] developed as I wrote: what first attracted me was a person who could not be accused of any incapacity for life, who indeed seized life in great variety and almost greedy quantities, who nevertheless found something in himself without which life was valueless and when that was denied him was able to grasp his death.

  • The society is the extension of the individual. If the individual is greedy, cruel, merciless, egoistic, etc. so it will be the society.

  • In tennis it's easy to get greedy - and one Grand Slam doesn't feel enough any more.

    "Sam Stosur: Serena is intimidating even when on her best behaviour" by Donald McRae, www.theguardian.com. October 24, 2011.
  • Ever since the Christmas of 1953, I have felt that the yuletide is a special hell for those families who have suffered any loss or who must admit to any imperfection; the so-called spirit of giving can be as greedy as receiving-Christmas is our time to be aware of what we lack, of who's not home.

  • Be glad that you're greedy; the national economy would collapse if you weren't.

    "The Complete Neurotic's Notebook". Book by Mignon McLaughlin, 1981.
  • Movie directors, or should I say people who create things, are very greedy and they can never be satisfied... That's why they can keep on working. I've been able to work for so long because I think next time, I'll make something good.

    Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
  • Mother always said you were greedy.

    "Fictional character: Randolph Duke". "Trading Places", www.imdb.com. 1983.
  • My childhood was bad. No father. Mother was greedy and brought me up awful - never made me breakfast once. I don't want to get started. One story is worse than another.

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