"Greed is a contagious mental illness without which civilization as we know it would not have been possible."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

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"Hoarding can never end, for the heart of man always covets for more, its raging appetites can only be quenched by the heavy sands of the grave."

"I too often allow people to become a sterile commodity to be bartered in the service of my greed, and in doing something so absurdly reckless I foolishly barter away everything that meets my need."

"An intriguing paradox of the 1990s is that it isn't called a decade of greed."

"You can dress up greed, but you can't stop the stench."

"Then the hard, dry Spaniards came exploring through, greedy and realistic, and their greed was for gold or God. They collected souls as they collected jewels."

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"The person, who works for the sake of gaining money, is serving money."

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"Lust for possession and greed has ravaged the soul of humanity like a great cancer, metastasizing throughout society in the form of a nouveau post-human, consumer hedonism."

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