Best ignorance & greed Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“The real primary diseases of man are such defects as pride, cruelty, hate, self- love, ignorance, instability and greed; and each of these, if considered, will be found to be adverse to Unity.”

Ifs Men Real Self Hate Found Ignorance Pride Self Love Disease Unity Greed Cruelty Primaries Defects Adverse Instability

Book:The Bach Flower Remedies

Source: The Bach Flower Remedies

“Whoever imposes severe punishment becomes repulsive to the people; while he who awards mild punishment becomes contemptible. But whoever imposes punishment as deserved becomes respectable. For punishment when awarded with due consideration, makes the people devoted to righteousness and to works productive of wealth and enjoyment; while punishment, when ill-awarded under the influence of greed and anger or owing to ignorance, excites fury even among hermits and ascetics dwelling in forests, not to speak of householders.”

People Speak Wealth Influence Ignorance Greed Ill Dues Punishment Forests Enjoyment Productive Consideration Righteousness Awards Devoted Severe Fury Respectable Dwelling Owing Hermits

Author:Chanakya

“The speculators deadly enemies are: Ignorance, greed, fear and hope. All the statute books in the world and all the rules of all the Exchanges on earth cannot eliminate these from the human animal.”

World Humans Book Earth Animal Enemy Ignorance Greed Human Animal Statutes Speculators

Book:Reminiscences of a Stock Operator

Source: Reminiscences of a Stock Operator

“From the Zen view all beings are in the grip of the three poisons, greed, anger and delusion (ignorance).”

Three Views Ignorance Anger Greed Poison Delusion

Author:Brenda Shoshanna

“More than an end to war, we want an end to the beginnings of all wars. Yes, an end to this brutal, inhuman and thoroughly impractical method of settling the differences between Governments. The once powerful malignant Nazi state is crumbling; the Japanese warlords are receiving in their homelands the retribution for which they asked when they attacked Pearl Harbor. But the mere conquest of our enemies is not enough; we must go on to do all in our power to conquer the doubts and the fears, the ignorance and the greed, which made this horror possible.”

“Peace and the survival of life on earth as we know it are threatened by human activities which lack a commitment to humanitarian values. Destruction of nature and nature's resources result from ignorance, greed and lack of respect for the earth's living things.”

Knows Humans Earth Values Results Ignorance Activity Survival Commitment Resources Destruction Greed Humanitarian Threatened Living Things Human Activity Lack Of Respect Destruction Of Nature

Book:My Tibet

Source: My Tibet

“Ignorance and greed are part of the evolutionary process, which is just to say that mistakes are part of learning. There is nothing bad about behaviors or perceptions that do not work; they simply have to be given up and replaced by behaviors or perceptions that do work.”

Given Process Mistake Ignorance Behavior Perception Greed Replaced Given Up

Author:R. Buckminster Fuller

“I don't like greed, I don't like ignorance. I really don't like anger. But I love love.”

Ignorance Greed

Author:David Crosby

“The powerful have no monopoly on greed, hatred, fear, or ignorance.”

Powerful Ignorance Hatred Greed Monopoly

Author:Cornel West

“If I had a child who wanted to be a teacher, I would bid him Godspeed as if he were going to war. For indeed the war against prejudice, greed, and ignorance is eternal, and those who dedicate themselves to it give their lives no less because they may live to see some fraction of the battle won.”

Ifs Giving May Children War Wanted Teacher Ignorance Battle Eternal Prejudice Greed Fractions Going To War

Author:James Hilton

“It is a cause of shame to any member of the human race to be a member of the same species some of whose members could vote for any candidate for president that has been offered by the Republican party. Such people seem to be motivated only by short-sighted greed, ignorance, fear and hatred.”

People Humans Has Beens Seems Causes President Party Race Ignorance Republican Members Hatred Vote Shame Species Greed Human Race Candidates Motivated Republican Party Short Sighted

Author:Allen W. Wood

“When it comes to climate change it's all the usual barriers: greed, mendacity, ignorance, short-sightedness and so on, manifest in the extreme power of corporations, the weakness of government, and the indifference of citizens.”

Government Ignorance Citizens Weakness Climate Greed Climate Change Extremes Corporations Indifference Barriers Manifest Usual Mendacity

Author:Dale Jamieson

“Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power.”

Source: Give War a Chance: Eyewitness Accounts of Mankind's Struggle Against Tyranny, Injustice, and Alcohol-Free Beer

“I believe all suffering is caused by ignorance. People inflict pain on others in the selfish pursuit of their happiness or satisfaction. Yet true happiness comes from a sense of inner peace and contentment, which in turn must be achieved through the cultivation of altruism, of love and compassion and elimination of ignorance, selfishness and greed.”

“Republicans stand for raw, unbridled evil and greed and ignorance smothered in balloons and ribbons.”

Evil Ignorance Republican Greed Balloons Ribbons

Author:Frank Zappa

“Nirvana means to extinguish the burning fires of the Three Poisons: greed, anger, and ignorance. This can be accomplished by letting go of dissatisfaction.”

Mean Moving Three Fire Ignorance Letting Go Greed Burning Moving On Poison Accomplished Dissatisfaction Letting Go And Moving On Can't Let Go Letting Go Of Anger Burning Fire

Book:Shinjo: Reflections

Source: Shinjo: Reflections

“Mediation and reconciliation work is about a profound quest for justice and social transformation. But at the same time, they are about service, solidarity, about exploring and rediscovering the human spirit that has been lost or shattered through human conflict, cruelty, ignorance and greed.”

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