{"quotes":[{"text":"We can assume that those who ‘have it all’ and express an arrogant and greedy attitude, appears to be unthankful.","author":"Ellen J. Barrier","tags":["arrogant","attitude","greedy","unthankful"],"id":10298,"author_id":"Ellen+J.+Barrier"},{"text":"God provides something to you through somebody. Thats same God can give something to somebody through you. If you make yourself a greedy traffic on the way and deprive the final destined owner of what you supposed to keep provisionally, you make God upset.","author":"Israelmore Ayivor","tags":["generousity","get-and-share","give","god","god-gives","greed","greedy","jehovah","kind","kindness","provider","share","sharing","somebody","something","traffic"],"id":13993,"author_id":"Israelmore+Ayivor"},{"text":"We simply attempt to be fearful when others are greedy and to be greedy only when others are fearful.","author":"Warren Buffett","tags":["greedy","others","attempt "],"id":23790,"author_id":"Warren+Buffett"},{"text":"The problem: If you've an antique for sale, then, sad to relate, the world isn't your oyster. It's not that easy. Even if somebody gives you the National Gallery, your options are still very, very limited. Okay, you can sell the Old Masters, set up a trust, buy your favorite brewery. But that's strictly it. You're limited by honesty on one hand and law - that hobble of sanity - on the other.","author":"Jonathan Gash","tags":["antiques","greed","greedy","law","lovejoy","money","sale","selling"],"id":29325,"author_id":"Jonathan+Gash"},{"text":"Capitalism is a social system owned by the capitalistic class, a small network of very wealthy and powerful businessmen, who compromise the health and security of the general population for corporate gain.","author":"Suzy Kassem","tags":["capitalism","capitalist","capitalistic","capitalistic-greed","concerns","corporate","corporate-greed","corporate-profit","corruption","greed","greedy","health","human-life","plutocracy","population","powerful","rich","security","social-system","wealthy","welfare","white-collar","white-collar-crime"],"id":35180,"author_id":"Suzy+Kassem"},{"text":"Profit should never come at the cost of human blood. Any government that places profit before people is pure evil.","author":"Suzy Kassem","tags":["blood","casualties","citizens","colonialism","corrupt","corruption-blood","crooked","crooks","dirty-politics","establishment","evil","government","greed","greedy","human","human-life","imperialism","people","people-before-profit","people-before-profits","people-over-profit","political","politicians","president","profit","suzy-kassem","truth"],"id":36856,"author_id":"Suzy+Kassem"},{"text":"A system is corrupt when it is strictly profit-driven, not driven to serve the best interests of its people.","author":"Suzy Kassem","tags":["administration","capitalism","capitalistic","capitalistic-greed","capitalists","censorship","corporate-gain","corrupt","corruption","defunct","democracy","democratic","dysfunctional","empire","government","government-corruption","greed","greed-corruption","greedy","humanity","hypocrisy","interests","justice","leadership","money","nation","not-working","people","plutocracy","policies","profit","profit-drive","profitability","profits","rulership","social-system","social-systems","society","system","truth"],"id":37848,"author_id":"Suzy+Kassem"},{"text":"Leaders will love to be poor and see their people rich, than to be rich and see their people poor. This is their mission.","author":"Israelmore Ayivor","tags":["affluence","affluent","africa","african-leaders","change","change-makers","change-the-world","corrupt","corrupt-leaders","corruption","food-for-thought","govern","governance","government","greed","greediness","greedy","greedy-leaders","hungry","i-am-rich","israelmore-ayivor","leader","leaders","leadership","mission","money","penury","personal-development","political","political-leaders","politics","poor","poor-people","poverty","rich","rich-man","riches","self-improvement","thief","thieves","wealth","wealthy"],"id":54920,"author_id":"Israelmore+Ayivor"},{"text":"Any government that places profit before people is pure evil.","author":"Suzy Kassem","tags":["bad","blood","capitalism","capitalist","colonialism","corporations","corporatism","corrupt","corruption","deceit","deception","elections","elite","empire","evil","free","freed","freedom","greedy","human-life","imperialism","liberty","lives","media","money","occupation","people","people-before-profit","politics","power","power-to-the-people","profit","profitable","profits","profits-before-people","society","suzy-kassem","treason","tyranny"],"id":61111,"author_id":"Suzy+Kassem"},{"text":"Greed is a contagious mental illness without which civilization as we know it would not have been possible.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["acquisitiveness","adage","adages","africa","african","aphorism","aphorisms","avarice","axiom","axioms","capitalism","civilization","civilize","civilized","contagious","covetousness","cupidity","deep","dictum","dictums","epigram","epigrams","funny","gnome","gnomes","greed","greedy","humor","humorous","humour","impossible","insightful","made-me-think","make-you-think","materialism","maxim","maxims","mental-illness","mentally-ill","mercenariness","philosopher","possible","profound","progress","proverb","proverbs","provoke-thought","quotation","quotations","quote","of-the-day","quotes","rapacity","satire","satirical","satirist","satirists","saying","sayings","selfish","selfishness","selfless","selflessness","south-africa","south-african","thought-provoking","thoughtful"],"id":61199,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":83,"pages":9,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}