The hypocrisy of some is that we like to think of ourselves as sophisticated and evolved, but we're still also driven by primal urges like greed and power.
We stress humanity, and this is done at considerable cost. We can't have a lot of dramatics that other shows get away with - promiscuity, greed, jealousy. None of those have a place in 'Star Trek.'
Do not follow vain desires; for verily he who prospers is preserved from lust, greed and anger.
They have stolen the public lands. They have grasped all to themselves, and by their unprincipled greed brought a crisis of unparalleled distress on forty millions of people, who have natural resources to feed, clothe and shelter the whole human race.
People talk about Wall Street greed, but one of the things many people don't understand is that there are a lot of organizations that have been the recipient of largess from the same Wall Street.
Fear and greed are potent motivators. When both of these forces push in the same direction, virtually no human being can resist.
We're all basically made of the same stuff: generosity and selfishness, goodness and greed.
Corporate greed in New York won. It suffocated anything interesting out of the city.
We want to bear witness today that we know the relation between corporate greed and what goes on too often in the Supreme Court decisions.
Fear tends to manifest itself much more quickly than greed, so volatile markets tend to be on the downside. In up markets, volatility tends to gradually decline.
It is greed that makes us human but it could be for good or bad.