The environment that we call society is created by past generations; we accept it, as it helps us to maintain our greed, possessiveness, illusion.
If you eat junk, you look like junk. People say, 'It's not my fault, it's my glands.' It's not; it's greed!
What we're seeing now is that greed is still alive and kicking, and banks are bigger than ever.
Lust and greed are more gullible than innocence.
The major international appeal for 'House of Cards' was kind of a surprise because it's a very American show. What we learned is that American politics is very American, but greed and corruption and all of that is very global.
The fact that monasticism preceded the identification of greed as a primal sin is an important reminder that our very ability to name sin is a theological achievement.
You can be hostile to greed. You can be hostile to income inequality. You can be for raising raises... but you can't be hostile to businesses because 98 percent of businesses are small business people.
The desire for money may be an indication of greed, but I want to argue that greed is a much more subtle vice than simply the desire to be rich.
Supermarket tabloids and celebrity gossip shows are not just innocently shallow entertainment, but a fundamental part of a much larger movement that involves apathy, greed and hierarchy.
An intriguing paradox of the 1990s is that it isn't called a decade of greed.
Social networks do best when they tap into one of the seven deadly sins. Facebook is ego. Zynga is sloth. LinkedIn is greed.
But men are so full of greed today, they'll sell anything for a little piece of money.
I think the main focus in America is - is basically greed.
If we weren't born with anti-social passions - narcissism, envy, lust, meanness, greed, hunger for power, just to name the more obvious - why the need for so many laws, whether religious or secular, that govern behavior?
While neurological studies have tried to identify components responsible for fear and greed, the impact on finance is less clear.
People seem to take as much offence as they possibly can these days - it's almost a new type of greed, a new kind of road rage.
The CD, it should be noted, was born out of greed. It was devised to prop up record sales on the expectation of people replenishing their record collections with CDs of albums they had already purchased.
It's impossible to translate Wall Street greed into one or two demands.
The organization and constant onward sweep of this movement exemplifies the resentment of the many toward the selfishness, greed and the neglect of the few.
We lost our way and allowed greed and excess to become the twin pillars of too much of the financial culture. We became a society utterly absorbed in consumption and dismissive of moderation.
