A quotation from Bryan, William Jennings:

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And who can suffer injury by just taxation, impartial laws and the application of the Jeffersonian doctrine of equal rights to all and special privileges to none? Only those whose accumulations are stained with dishonesty and whose immoral methods have given them a distorted view of business, society and government. Accumulating…
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https://wist.info/bryan-william-jennings/62735/

#quote #quotes #quotation #avarice #equality #classwarfare

A quotation from Apollonius of Tyana:

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Plato said that virtue has no master. If a person does not honor this principle and rejoice in it, but is purchasable for money, he creates many masters for himself.
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Full quote, sourcing, notes:
https://wist.info/apollonius-of-tyana/62328/

#quote #quotes #quotation #autonomy #avarice #control #greed #master #mercenary #money #slave #virtue

A quotation from Franklin, Benjamin:

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The poor have little, beggars none, the rich too much, enough not one.
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Full quote, sourcing, notes:
https://wist.info/franklin-benjamin/62204/

#quote #quotes #quotation #avarice #greed #money #poor #poverty #rich #sufficiency #wealth

The true outrage isn’t that there are billionaires who don’t pay federal income taxes but that, in our allegedly “civilized” society, billionaires even exist.
#WealthDistribution #WeAllInheritTheEarth #SocialContract #FeedNeedNotGreed #wealth #avarice #greed #excess #indigence #poverty #need

If you’ve inherited or amassed wealth that could sustain hundreds or thousands of lives beyond your own, you unquestionably have something that — in part —belongs to some of your contemporaries.
#wealth #avarice #greed #entitlement #privilege #access #class #indigence #poverty

A quotation from Cicero, Marcus Tullius:

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What the object of senile avarice may be I cannot conceive. For can there be anything more absurd than to seek more journey money, the less there remains of the journey?
[Avaritia vero senilis quid sibi velit, non intellego. Potest enim quicquam esse absurdius quam, quo viae minus restet, eo plus viatici quaerere?]
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https://wist.info/cicero-marcus-tullius/25132/

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If you can stomach going over to Twitter, there's a fun thread about folks wanting to disrupt and monetize fanfiction. I mean, beyond Amazon.

https://twitter.com/KaylaAncrum/status/1666094135709941762

#WritersCommunity #Writing #Fanfic #Avarice

A quotation from Bible:

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But they that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown men in destruction and perdition. For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.
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https://wist.info/bible/12813/

#quote #quotes #quotation #avarice #greed #money #riches #temptation #wealth

A quotation from Keynes, John Maynard:

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When the accumulation of wealth is no longer of high social importance, there will be great changes in the code of morals. We shall be able to rid ourselves of many of the pseudo-moral principles which have hag-ridden us for two hundred years, by which we have exalted some of the most distasteful of human qualities in…
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https://wist.info/keynes-john-maynard/42080/

#quote #quotes #quotation #avarice #capitalism

You needn’t be a selfish person to survive a selfish world.
#selfishness #greed #avarice

@newrepublic
Cowards…the lot of them!
Who ever heard that…
Cowardice is a great #leadership trait?

They don’t have any legitimate, creative, empathetic💡’s!
No #solutions …no #discussion …
Just #hatred & #avarice

A quotation from Cicero, Marcus Tullius:

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For what is there more hideous than avarice, more brutal than lust, more contemptible than cowardice, more base than stupidity and folly? Well, then, are we to call those persons unhappy, who are conspicuous for one or more of these, on account of some injuries, or disgraces, or sufferings to which they are exposed,…
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https://wist.info/cicero-marcus-tullius/60193/

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We must prioritize #disability access and #pedestrian and human-powered #traffic over vehicular #convenience. We must prioritize human #comfort over corporate #avarice.

We must advance public #policy which incentivizes #humanscale living over vehicle miles travelled. We must rebuild our city and town centers to increase density of settlement.

The technologies we use to generate power are the last things we should be thinking about. There is no such thing as "#renewable" energy generation.

A quotation from Dante Alighieri:

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You now can see, dear son, the short-lived pranks
that goods consigned to Fortune’s hand will play,
causing such squabbles in the human ranks.
For all the gold that lies beneath the moon —
or all that ever did lie there — would bring
no respite to these worn-out souls, not one.
[Or puoi, figliuol, veder la corta buff…
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https://wist.info/dante-alighieri-poet/58771/

#quote #quotes #quotation #avarice #fortune #gold

A quotation from King, Martin Luther:

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We need leaders not in love with money but in love with justice. Not in love with publicity but in love with humanity.
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Full quote, sourcing, notes:
https://wist.info/king-martin-luther/40789/

#quote #quotes #quotation #avarice #justice #leadership #love #meme #philanthropy #publicity #wealth

"Tan, I've told you about fathom spirits?" said Igrid.
"They attack vessels that don't pay tribute," said Tan, "Spirits of rage."
"Of #avarice and envy. They want to escape the sea, but can't. They take it out on us."
"The Sea King is a fathom spirit?"
"The first one."
#vssdaily

I will be involved in a "Songwriter Song Swap" next month - songwriters submit one of their songs, the mod then "assigns" each one to a different entrant, who then covers that tune live, in whatever way they wish (I typically try to think of how it would have come out, had I written it, though some to a carbon copy - no rules)
Thinking of this one, to enter.

#songwriter #originalMusic #CoverSong #avarice

https://soundcloud.com/mark-p-koschwitz/avarice-acoustic?si=64b4d6e820eb4060910a48d19a49d531&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing

#Musk: Mann mit zu viel #Macht #pridecomesbeforeafall #greed #avarice
https://orf.at/stories/3295376/

Why do they bury war victims in mass graves?

So that in a million years from now when another species has taken over for humans, who by then are long extinct, all those people who were buried a million years ago during the war will have turned into oil and then the new species can pump out that oil and they’ll have something to fight about and start wars over.

The cycle of life.

#sardonic #war #violence #life #death #avarice

(Image: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pump_Jack.jpg, by Sanjay Acharya, CC-BY-SA-3.0)