{"quotes":[{"text":"There is no greater beast than envy, no greater thief than fear, no greater enemy than greed, no greater predator than wrath, and no greater poison than bitterness.","author":"Matshona Dhliwayo","tags":["anger","bitterness","envy","fear","greed","life-lesson","life-lessons","life-lessons","life","matshona-dhliwayo"],"id":1877,"author_id":"Matshona+Dhliwayo"},{"text":"To my own demise, I rarely ask why I’m hungry because I’m focusing all of my energies on getting fed. And if I persist in such a diminishing cycle, in all probability I will eventually starve to death because I have chosen to gorge myself on the very things that will keep me empty.","author":"Craig D. Lounsbrough","tags":["calling","choices","death","die","greed","hunger","hungry","materialism","meaning","mission","purpose","selfish","starve","superficiality","value"],"id":2241,"author_id":"Craig+D.+Lounsbrough"},{"text":"Blessed are the mendacious, for they shall grow wealthy beyond their wildest dreams.","author":"James K. Morrow","tags":["greed"],"id":2829,"author_id":"James+K.+Morrow"},{"text":"Never mix business with religion, or you might end up losing your testimony when the business agreement is no longer something you or Christ would put up with.","author":"Shannon L. Alder","tags":["bad-business","business","church","deals","greed","testimony"],"id":4249,"author_id":"Shannon+L.+Alder"},{"text":"You may possibly become rich by just caring about yourself and what you want to gain from your profession and your life but you cannot possibly enrich the lives of everyone you meet that way.","author":"Rasheed Ogunlaru","tags":["career","caring","enrichment","get-rich-quick","greed","helping-others","kindness","materialism","purpose","rasheed-ogunlaru","rasheed-ogunlaru","rich","selfishness"],"id":4338,"author_id":"Rasheed+Ogunlaru"},{"text":"The events of the Titanic disaster can be seen as a symbol of what happens through overconfidence in technology, complacence, and a mindset of profits over people's safety.","author":"Deborah Hopkinson","tags":["greed","technology","titanic"],"id":6579,"author_id":"Deborah+Hopkinson"},{"text":"Greatness untethered from God results in calamity unrestrained by men.","author":"Craig D. Lounsbrough","tags":["arrogance","calamity","christian","christianity","ego","ego-centric","egotistical","god","great","greatness","greed","jesus","jesus-christ","men","narcissism","restrain","restraint","sin","stubborn"],"id":8508,"author_id":"Craig+D.+Lounsbrough"},{"text":"And the great owners, who had become through the might of their holdings both more and less than men.","author":"John Steinbeck","tags":["capitalism","greed","ownership"],"id":9614,"author_id":"John+Steinbeck"},{"text":"If you haven’t figured it out yet, an absolutely certain way to lose something as quickly as possible is to forget the privilege you have to possess it in the first place.","author":"Craig D. Lounsbrough","tags":["blessing","blessings","careless","carelessness","discover","discovered","entitlement","forget","forgetfulness","forgot","forsake","forsaken","greed","ignorance","laziness","lazy","lose","loss","losses","lost","opportunity","owed","possess","possession","privilege","rights","self-centered","selfish","selfishness","stupid","stupidity"],"id":10125,"author_id":"Craig+D.+Lounsbrough"},{"text":"Progress begins when you liberate your mind from the shackles of your ingrained tendencies of authoritarianism – the tendencies of greed – the tendencies of hatred, rage and lust.","author":"Abhijit Naskar","tags":["compassion","good-and-evil","goodness","greatness","greed","hatred","human-progress","humanity-and-society","inspiring","love-and-kindness","progress","rage"],"id":10131,"author_id":"Abhijit+Naskar"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":755,"pages":76,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}