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“Many Christians, though keenly sensitive to the dangers of greed and discontent that come with an economy of continually increasing consumption, nevertheless feel that it is worth risking if only it can end man's physical miseries. The trouble is that it can't. In a finite world, continually increasing consumption is just not possible.”

Ifs Men World Feels Ends Christian Economy Trouble Danger Misery Greed Sensitive Consumption Nevertheless Consumerism Finite Discontent Overconsumption

Author:Joy Davidman

“Electrical fire and the fire of greed kindle economies. In that flux, nations become digitized commodities on stock-exchange floors and on investors' rating screens. A country becomes a product to be rated for its obedience to paying of deficits and debts.”

Country Nations Economy Fire Products Greed Debt Screens Obedience Investors Commodity Deficit Rating Electrical Kindles Flux Stock Exchange

Author:B. W. Powe

“... But as a Godless greed pursued its career from excess to excess, it provoked a sort of twin hostile brother, equally Godless, born in the same atmosphere of utter disregard for the foundational virtues of humility and charity. This hostile twin brother of Capitalism was destined to be called Communism, and is today setting out to murder its elder.”

“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.”

Source: On reconstructing the social order: (Quadragesimo anno)

“Our Twentieth Century has proved to be more cruel than preceding centuries, and the first fifty years have not erased all its horrors. Our world is rent asunder by those same old cave-age emotions of greed, envy, lack of control, mutual hostility which have picked up in passing respectable pseudonyms like class struggle, radical conflict, struggle of the masses, trade-union disputes.”

“Greed is good to most economists. It's greed that makes people work harder, be more productive and helps the economy grow.”

People Helping Grows Economy Hard Work Harder Greed Productive Economist Work Harder Greed Is Good

Author:Rebecca M. Blank

“What in the rising man was industry and economy, becomes in the rich man parsimony and avarice.”

Men Economy Rich Industry Greed Rising Avarice Rich Man Parsimony

Book:Ladies' Magazine and Literary Gazette

Source: Ladies' Magazine and Literary Gazette

“Oh, I'm all about small business. I think what we've learned from big business and big Wall Street is that unchecked greed and the creation of false value gets us all in trouble. If we look at the American economy, who's really creating value? It's the small businesses.”

Ifs Thinking Looks Bigs Values Economy Trouble Streets Creation Wall Creating Greed Small Business Big Business American Economy Creating Value

Author:Robert Herjavec

“If we didn't have greed, market economies wouldn't be as innovative as they are. But in my view, greed has to be contained by the fear of losses, so there has to be a system where, if you take too much risk, you go into bankruptcy. You don't systematically bail out people who take excessive risks.”

People Ifs Loss Views Economy Too Much Risk Greed Innovative Bankruptcy Market Economy Bail

Author:Nouriel Roubini

“The agrarian crisis [in India] is an unnecessary tragedy, resulting directly from an economics of greed and a politics driven by the economies of greed.”

Economy Economics India Tragedy Crisis Greed Driven Unnecessary

Author:Vandana Shiva