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Animals are neither gods nor fiends, but men in their way without the lust and greed of man. -- Robert E. Howard
The basis of tragedy is man's helplessness against disease, war and death; the basis of comedy is man's helplessness against vanity (the vanity of love, greed, lust, power). -- Dawn Powell
I have vanity and greed enough for one person. But at the same time, I feel in my bones you lose a lot of life's value if you don't see yourself as a member of the family of man. -- Ralph Waite
I wound up becoming an A&R man at London Records in the 1990s, during the boom of Britpop, the last great gold rush of the music industry. I saw incredible greed and terrible behaviour. I was greedy and terribly behaved. -- John Niven
Eureka' was very bad timing. The early 1980s: Reagan and Thatcher were in, greed was good, and here was a film about the richest man in the world who still couldn't be happy. Politically and sociologically, it was out of step. -- Nicolas Roeg
The man Dickens, whom the world at large thought it knew, stood for all the Victorian virtues - probity, kindness, hard work, sympathy for the down-trodden, the sanctity of domestic life - even as his novels exposed the violence, hypocrisy, greed, and cruelty of the Victorian age. -- Robert Gottlieb
A man must fortify himself and understand that a wise man who yields to laziness or anger or passion or love of drink, or who commits any other action prompted by impulse and inopportune, will probably find his fault condoned; but if he stoops to greed, he will not be pardoned, but render himself odious as a combination of all vices at once. -- Apollonius of Tyana
Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Greed makes man blind and foolish, and makes him an easy prey for death. -- Rumi
There is a sufficiency in the world for man's need but not for man's greed. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Man is oftentimes weak-minded enough to be caught in the snare of greed and honeyed words. -- Mahatma Gandhi
When a man becomes old, his greed becomes young: sleep grows heavy at the time of morning. -- Saib Tabrizi
How shrunk, how dwindled, in our times Creation's mighty seed - For Man has broke the Fellowship With murder, lust, and greed. -- Margaret Atwood
My teacher said once that every man faces seven enemies in his lifetime. Sickness, hunger, betrayal, envy, greed, old age, and then death... -- Osamu Tezuka
Ambition and thirst for power have a part but greed and greed alone is the reason for a man wanting to swell his ward. -- Charles Ranlett Flint
Greed is a sin against God, just as all mortal sins, in as much as man condemns things eternal for the sake of temporal things, -- Thomas Aquinas
Imagine no possesions, I wonder if you can, No need for greed or hunger, A brotherhood of man. Imagine all the people Sharing all the world. -- John Lennon
A big man is always accused of gluttony, whereas a wizened or osseous man can eat like a refugee at every meal, and no one ever notices his greed. -- Robertson Davies

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