Susan Rosenberg

We are not terrorists. We're not criminals, we're not motivated by money, we're not motivated by greed. Nor are we simply nice kids gone wrong. We're deeply committed to a different kind of society and a different world. I think that is something very hard to understand for a lot of people.

American Activist

J. C. Chandor

I don't know how you make decisions in your life, but I weigh lots of things, and it's not always the purest of things for why I take a job or do this. I always try to think of the many different factors in my life, and not one is pure greed. One is pure quality of life.

American Director

Paddy Considine

I think it's a shame when the arts have to suffer because of corporate greed. People will always strive to make film, and the only important thing is that we keep trying to make ourselves heard and keep making our films, no matter what the climate is.

English Actor

John Mellencamp

If we have any hope for survival of the music that we all love, compassion must replace name-calling, fairness must replace greed, and we need to come together as a musical community and try to understand each other's problems.

American Musician

Genesis P-Orridge

People have become obsessed with the greed of celebrity and self-branding and wanting to be known and recognized and succeed in some way, and they're not prepared to share and help each other.

English Musician

Teresa Heinz

John will never send a boy or girl in a uniform anywhere in the world because of our need and greed for oil.

American Celebrity

Nina Simone

Greed has driven the world crazy. And I think I'm lucky that I have a place over here that I can call home.

Charles Kuralt

The everyday kindness of the back roads more than makes up for the acts of greed in the headlines.

American Journalist

Sepp Blatter

Fifa cannot sit by and see greed rule the football world. Nor shall we.

Swiss Leader

Jen Sincero

A healthy desire for wealth is not greed. It's a desire for life.

American Author

Greed often has a negative meaning, suggesting selfishness and moral corruption.

Negative Tone

Using 'greed' can evoke strong emotions because it's tied to social and personal values.

Emotional Weight

'Greed' implies an excessive, overwhelming desire for more,not just a simple wish.

Often Excessive

 Respectable people kept slaves. For all our flaws, we have abandoned these barbaric practices. So, do you think it's human nature that's changed? Not exactly. I think we still harbor instincts that can erupt in violence, like greed, tribalism, revenge, dominance, sadism.

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 and the professional deceivers, who spread falsehoods at the click of a button. Climate change is about making a choice. What kind of planet do we want to inhabit, and what kind of humans do we want to be? A choice between greed and compassion,

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 tyrannies where corruption and greed replaced commitment and development as the order of the day the sorts of things which prompted Chinua Achebe no less to pronounce Nigeria's problems at one point as being the result of and these

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 I suddenly understood that the crisis in my body was the crisis in the world, and it wasn't happening later, it was happening now. Suddenly, my cancer was a cancer that was everywhere, the cancer of cruelty, the cancer of greed,

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 occupying these forests for thousands of years but recently they've fallen prey to basically human greed and this hornbill has this really unique horn on its head that's a solid character material local people have been hunting

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 illustrating how Soviet society bred greed and cynicism despite its ideals. And the matter-of-fact narration deliberately blends the strangeness of the supernatural events with the everyday absurdity of Soviet life.

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 And the more I talked about the chimpanzees' plight, the more I realized the fact that everything's interconnected, and the problems of the developing world so often stem from the greed of the developed world,

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 not just a question of doing your good deed for the day and then returning to a life of greed and egotism, but to do it all day and every day, you dethrone yourself from the center of your world,

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 under the supervision of government. Feels terrible that it is because of our greed that we have lost the resource. It's a bio resource. With it going extinct in some areas

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 Under this economic logic, greed is good, widening inequality is efficient, and the only purpose of the corporation can be to enrich shareholders,

Greed

A strong desire to have more of something, especially money, than is needed.

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