"Greed is taking more than you need to feed. Avarice is hoarding, and stockpiling stolen, rotten goods."

Greed, Needs, Excess, Ethics

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"Greed is taking more than you need to feed. Avarice is hoarding, and stockpiling stolen, rotten goods."

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"Ah, Caderousse,' said Andrea, 'how covetous you are! Two months ago you were dying with hunger.''The appetite grows by what it feeds on,' said Caderousse."

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"For greed all nature is too little."

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Paul Samuelson, American Economist

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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."

Bangambiki Habyarimana, Rwandan Author

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"Looking so cool, his greed is hard to conceal, he's fresh out of law school, you gave him a license to steal."

Al Stewart, Scottish Musician

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"You can satiate a Man's hunger but never his greed!"

Ramana Pemmaraju, Indian Physician

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"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."

John Steinbeck, American Author

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"Avarice is opposed to nobility.It believes that by robbing many of all they have, that it (greed) is cloaked in the nobility that is the birthmark of the people."

Justin K. McFarlane Beau, Canadian Poet

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"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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"In the average, want overcomes reason. In the magnificent, reason is the want."

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"Two times twice now, I have been called arrogant, by the decadent.I'd rather be overly self confident, rather than overly self indulgent."

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"If you do not love something, then it does not belong to you. For it wont be long, before you destroy that something, exactly because, you do not love it."

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"After years in utter darkness, I force my eyes into the light. For I must retain my sight, that I might view the wholeness of the void, objectively."

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"Some people brag about standing for something so hard and so much, that they do not realize that they are actually sitting."

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"Corruption ultimately guilts the corrupt, and it hardens the innocent who suffer as a result of it. It isn't the young who corrupt the old, rather it's the inverse.The aim of the old should be to ensure that the young grow up incorruptible."

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