Greed Has Been Severely Underestimated And Denigrated - Unfairly So, In My Opinion.
Tariff, N. A Scale Of Taxes On Imports, Designed To Protect The Domestic Producer Against The Greed Of His Consumer.
Politics: A Strife Of Interests Masquerading As A Contest Of Principles. The Conduct Of Public Affairs For Private Advantage.
When You Question A Man's Motives, When You Say They Are Acting Out Of Greed, They Are In The Pocket Of An Interest Group, Et Cetera. It's Awful Hard To Reach Consensus. It's Awful Hard To Reach Across The Table And Shake Hands. No Matter How Bitterly You Disagree, Though, It Is Always Possible If You Question Judgment And Not Motive.
When The Stock Market Crashed, Franklin Roosevelt Got On The Television And Didn't Just Talk About The Princes Of Greed. He Said, 'look, Here's What Happened.'
The Problems Are Our Lives. In The "developed" Countries, At Least, The Large Problems Occur Because All Of Us Are Living Either Partly Wrong Or Almost Entirely Wrong. It Was Not Just The Greed Of Corporate Shareholders And The Hubris Of Corporate Executives That Put The Fate Of Prince William Sound Into One Ship; It Was Also Our Demand That Energy Be Cheap And Plentiful.
But Our Waste Problem Is Not The Fault Only Of Producers. It Is The Fault Of An Economy That Is Wasteful From Top To Bottom-a Symbiosis Of An Unlimited Greed At The Top And A Lazy, Passive, And Self-indulgent Consumptiveness At The Bottom-and All Of Us Are Involved In It.
We Live In A System That Espouses Merit, Equality, And A Level Playing Field, But Exalts Those With Wealth, Power, And Celebrity, However Gained.
Decidedly It Will Never Have Been Given To Me To Finish Anything, Except Perhaps Breathing. One Must Not Be Greedy.
When We Refuse To Work With Our Disappointment, We Break The Precepts: Rather Than Experience The Disappointment, We Resort To Anger, Greed, Gossip, Criticism. Yet It's The Moment Of Being That Disappointment Which Is Fruitful; And, If We Are Not Willing To Do That, At Least We Should Notice That We Are Not Willing. The Moment Of Disappointment In Life Is An Incomparable Gift That We Receive Many Times A Day If We're Alert. This Gift Is Always Present In Anyone's Life, That Moment When 'it's Not The Way I Want It!
