But there is a limit to greed.

Need Versus Greed

The politics of greed and grievance replace more far sighted policymaking.

By contrast the Enron affair involved impropriety and perhaps criminal conduct of just about anyone coming close to management.

Investors simply made a mistake out of greed and lost, big time.

The fatal human instincts of greed and hubris can be tamed only with some elementary ethical norms.

The second unleashes the worst envy, intrigue, greed, suspicion, and the urge for revenge.

Although he had many toys, his greed made him want more.

Some evidence suggests that there is a link between the level of dopamine, addiction, and greedy behavior.

But it is truer to say that the market economy is sustained by the stimulation of greed and envy through advertising.

Poland had disappeared as an independent nation, the victim of its powerful neighbors greed

Local nationalists immediately criticized Drozdov s words, accusing him of lack of patriotism and greed.

We must value a sense of moderation and modesty instead of an unquenchable greed for money, prestige, and consumption.

They fail to do so not only because they are greedy, but also because they are scared.

For example, long before the financial collapse, experimental economists joined psychologists in attempting to measure varying propensities to greediness.

The Russian Stabilization Fund embodies an unstable combination of anxiety and greed that is typical for an undemocratic regime.

Our planet will not physically support this exponential economic growth if we let greed take the upper hand.

Our fate now depends on whether we cooperate or fall victim to self defeating greed.

The simplest way of doing this is to restrict advertising. This would prune the role of greed and envy in the operation of markets, and create room for the flourishing of other motives.

This would prune the role of greed and envy in the operation of markets, and create room for the flourishing of other motives.

Repeatedly officials charged with obeying the law decided instead to flout or ignore it, whether out of greed, inadequacy, fear or revenge.

She witnessed the return of the greed and corruption that she believed had destroyed the Kuomintang in the 1930 s and 1940 s.

Markets are imperfect controllers of their own fate as are all human endeavors, particularly those based on speculation and greed.

In greed humans lose their souls , their freedom, their composure, their inner peace, and thus that which makes them human.

Larry Hagman, whose role as oil tycoon predator JR Ewing in the television series Dallas became a symbol of greed in the 1980s, has died.

To illustrate his argument, Benedict noted that the international financial crash, partly a consequence of insatiable greed, had provoked debate about the need for an ethical basis for economic behavior.

But Thaksin, a self made billionaire, allowed his greed and huge electoral successes to get the better of him.

Poland had disappeared as an independent nation, the victim of its powerful neighbors greed Spain was a country that no longer mattered.

At one end of its spectrum of meanings, conservatism has (over the last two decades) come to be viewed as promoting too much of a civic life of greed and grab.

At one end of its spectrum of meanings, conservatism has (over the last two decades) come to be viewed as promoting too much of a civic life of greed and grab. At the other end, conservatism in many European countries has historically veered too close for comfort to right wing extremism.

Everybody knows how American style hyper consumerism can destabilize social relations and lead to aggressiveness, loneliness, greed, and over work to the point of exhaustion. What is perhaps less recognized is how those trends have accelerated in the United States itself in recent decades.

Everybody knows how American style hyper consumerism can destabilize social relations and lead to aggressiveness, loneliness, greed, and over work to the point of exhaustion.

People increasingly see change not as something that enhances their freedom and dignity but as a force encouraging avarice and unfairness.

NEW YORK India s great moral leader Mohandas Gandhi famously said that there is enough on Earth for everybody s need, but not enough for everybody s greed.

Europe has formidable wealth, but that wealth is sleeping it has formidable human capital, but it is shackled from lack of initiative, counterproductive regulation, bureaucracy, and by insufficient profit motivation call it a lack of greed.

The live for the moment mentality of hedonism and greed that they have encouraged is embodied in Moscow s casinos, of which there are more than in the rest of Europe or, for that matter, Las Vegas.

Don't judge others, we have the spectacle of Christians endlessly judging other people, endlessly using Scripture as a way of arguing with other people, putting other people down. Throughout the ages, religion has been used to oppress others, and this is because of human ego, human greed.

Who is the wrong doer and who is the victim in the Palestine Israel conflict, where injustice breeds injustice in an endless cycle of violence, while everything began from the greed of a few and their lust for global power?

Museveni believed that young fighters not only needed martial skills but also a political awareness of the cause for which they fought an end to the greed and self delusion of Africa's post independence leadership.

Lyrical themes found in Nine Inch Nails songs are largely concerned with dark explorations of the self ranging from religion, greed, fame, lust, addiction, self deception, aging, regret, nihilism, and occasionally politics, with the latter topic often being scrutinized in Year Zero .

That will, of course, prompt cynics to ask What about the other 80 ? But those who have taken the oath are part of a larger turn toward ethics that has followed the recent flood of revelations of dishonesty and greed in the financial sector.

If our societies are run according to the greed principle, with the rich doing everything to get richer, the growing resource crisis will lead to a widening divide between the rich and the poor and quite possibly to an increasingly violent struggle for survival.

And the more I talked about the chimpanzees' plight, the more I realized the fact that everything's interconnected, and the problems of the developing world so often stem from the greed of the developed world, and everything was joining together, and making not sense, hope lies in sense, you said it's making a nonsense.