“With Napster and the sharing of music, of course, there are going to be people who exploit it. Greed has no end. But there's a lot of good that could happen. We shouldn't let the economic concerns of the major labels infringe on our freedom to share music.” PeopleEndsHappensCoursesShareEconomicMajorsConcernGreedLabelsExploitsNapster Author:Ian MacKaye
“The notion that a society could be regulated entirely by market forces is a utopian fantasy: an impossible dream generated by imagining what the world would be like if everyone's behavior was utterly consistent with some abstract moral ideal-in this case, economic theories that assume all human action is based on calculating, systematic, (but scrupulously law-abiding), greed.” IfsWorldHumansDreamWould BeActionLawForceMoralCasesFantasyImpossibleEconomicTheoryBehaviorIdealsAssumingNotionGreedLibertarianAbstractConsistentAbidingSystematicUtopianCalculatingHuman ActionsEconomic TheoryImpossible Dream Author:David Graeber
“The dynamo of our economic system is self-interest which may range from mere petty greed to admirable types of self-expression.” MaySelfInterestEconomicExpressionTypeCapitalismMereGreedRangePettySelf InterestAdmirableSelf ExpressionEconomic Systems Author:Felix Frankfurter
“It is doubly chimerical to build peace on economic foundations which, in turn, rest on the systematic cultivation of greed and envy, the very forces which drive men into conflict.” MenTurnsForceEconomicConflictFoundationGreedEnvySystematicCultivationSmall Is Beautiful Book:SMALL IS BEAUTIFUL Source: SMALL IS BEAUTIFUL
“This was 1990, the year that communism died in Europe and it seemed strange to me that in all the words that were written about the fall of the iron curtain, nobody anywhere lamented that it was the end of a noble experiment. I know that communism never worked and I would have disliked living under it myself but none the less it seems that there was a kind of sadness in the thought that the only economic system that appeared to work was one based on self interest and greed.” KnowsYearsKindEndsSelfSeemsFallInterestWrittenSadnessEconomicStrangeEuropeDiedGreedNobleExperimentsCommunismIronCurtainsSelf InterestEconomic SystemsIron Curtain Author:Bill Bryson
“The ultimate consequences of the individualist spirit in economic life are those which you yourselves, Venerable Brethren and Beloved Children, see and deplore: Free competition has destroyed itself; economic dictatorship has supplanted the free market; unbridled ambition for power has likewise succeeded greed for gain; all economic life has become tragically hard, inexorable, and cruel.” ChildrenHardSpiritPoliticsEconomyEconomicAmbitionConsequenceGainsUltimateCompetitionGreedDestroyedBelovedLiberalismDictatorshipFree MarketBrethrenInexorable Book:On reconstructing the social order: (Quadragesimo anno) Source: On reconstructing the social order: (Quadragesimo anno)
“What has patriotism come to be but greed and false pride, when the only way it can show itself is by shedding blood to gain gold? More economic advantage, more territory, more power.” WayShowsBloodEconomicPrideGainsAdvantageGoldGreedPatriotismTerritoryShedding BloodFalse Pride Book:The Hounds of Spring Source: The Hounds of Spring
“Up until the Depression, recession had a moral character: it was supposed to purge the body economic of the greed and excess that attends a business expansion.” CharacterBodyMoralEconomicGreedExcessExpansionRecessionsMoral Character Author:James Buchan
“If greed were not the master of modern man, how could it be that the frenzy of economic activity does not abate as higher standards of living are attained, and that it is precisely the richest societies which pursue their economic advantage with the greatest ruthlessness?” IfsMenDoeEconomicModernMastersHigherActivityStandardsAdvantageGreedPursueStandards Of LivingFrenzyModern ManHigher StandardsRuthlessnessSmall Is Beautiful Author:E. F. Schumacher