“To act without rapacity, to use knowledge with wisdom, to respect interdependence, to operate without hubris and greed are not simply moral imperatives. They are an accurate scientific description of the means of survival.” MeanUseMoralMoralitySurvivalEthicsGreedDescriptionAccurateImperativesInterdependenceHubrisMorality And Ethics Author:Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth
“Purity means lack of hatred, jealousy, fear, greed and lust - the absence of anything that can stain consciousness.” MeanConsciousnessBuddhismHatredGreedAbsenceLustPurityStains Author:Frederick Lenz
“A child in its greed for love does not enjoy having to share the affection of its parents with its brothers and sisters; and it notices that the whole of their affection is lavished upon it once more whenever it arouses their anxiety by falling ill. It has now discovered a means of enticing out its parents' love and will make use of that means as soon as it has the necessary psychical material at its disposal for producing an illness.” MeanChildrenDoeWholeUseFallParentEnjoyShareBrotherMaterialsAnxietyGreedIllAffectionIllnessBrothers And SistersParents LoveEnticing Book:Dora: An Analysis of a Case of Hysteria Source: Dora: An Analysis of a Case of Hysteria
“In this world laws are written for the lofty aim of "the common good" and then acted out in life on the basis of the common greed. In this world irrationality clings to man like his shadow so that the right things get done for the wrong reasons - afterwards, we dredge up the right reasons for justification. It is a world not of angels but of angles, where men speak of moral principles but act on power principles; a world where we are always moral and our enemies always immoral; a world where "reconciliation" means that when one side gets the power and the other side gets reconciled to it.” MenWorldMeanReasonDoneLawSpeakSidesCommonMoralEnemyPrinciplesWrittenThis WorldAngelShadowBasesAimGreedRight ThingJustificationAngleImmoralReconciliationLoftyCommon GoodIrrationalityMoral PrinciplesWrong ReasonsRules For Radicals Author:Saul Alinsky