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This war has been motivated by pride or arrogance, by a desire to control oil wealth, by a desire to implant our programs. on the Diane Rehm Show. (Quote by - Jimmy Carter)

On what strange stuff Ambition feeds! (Quote by - Eliza Cook)

Be glad that you're greedy; the national economy would collapse if you weren't. (Quote by - Mignon McLaughlin)

Greed's worst point is its ingratitude. (Quote by - Marcus Annaeus Seneca)

Nothing makes us more vulnerable than loneliness, except greed, which does make us more vulnerable than loneliness. (Quote by - Thomas Harris)

Give him an inch and he'll take a yard. (Quote by - Proverb)

Worse than traitors in arms are the men who pretend loyalty to the flag, feast and fatten on the misfortunes of the Nation while patriotic blood is crimsoning the plains of the South and their countrymen moldering the dust. (Quote by - Abraham Lincoln)

A greedy father has thieves for children (Quote by - Serbian Proverb)

The covetous man pines in plenty, like Tantalus up to the chin in water, and yet thirsty. (Quote by - Thomas Adams)

But love, like the sun that it is, sets afire and melts everything. What greed and privilege 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. (Quote by - Jose Marti)

Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's need, but not every man's greed (Quote by - Mahatma Gandhi )

Cast aside those who liken godliness to whimsy and who try to combine their greed for wealth with their desire for a happy afterlife. (Quote by - Kahlil Gibran)

Greed is a fat demon with a small mouth and whatever you feed it is never enough. (Quote by - Janwillem van de Wetering)

No gain satisfies a greedy mind. (Quote by - Latin proverb)

There is no fire like passion, there is no shark like hatred, there is no snare like folly, there is no torrent like greed. (Quote by - Buddha)

Greed is all right, by the way I think greed is healthy. You can be greedy and still feel good about yourself. (Quote by - Ivan F. Boesky)

Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction. (Quote by - Erich Fromm)

New York City is a great monument to the power of money and greed... a race for rent. (Quote by - Frank Lloyd Wright)

Death is a natural part of life. Rejoice for those around you who transform into the Force. Mourn them do not. Miss them do not. Attachment leads to jealously. The shadow of greed, that is. (Quote by - Yoda)

John will never send a boy or girl in a uniform anywhere in the world because of our need and greed for oil. (Quote by - Teresa Heinz-Kerry)

For greed all nature is too little. (Quote by - Lucius Annaeus Seneca)

The most pitiful human ailment is a birdseed heart. (Quote by - Wilson Mizner)

Ambition if it feeds at all, does so on the ambition of others. (Quote by - Susan Sontag)

You show me a capitalist, and I'll show you a bloodsucker. (Quote by - Malcolm X)

We are all born brave, trusting and greedy, and most of us remain greedy. (Quote by - Mignon McLaughlin)

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