AVARICE

Your gradual enslavement to greed.

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Well, heart cells are pretty greedy.

Out of greed, they took the horses.

The worst thing about the taxi drivers is the lack of them, coming from someone who is accustomed to Peru's capital where you simply raise your hand to hail a cab.

Greed is another factor that undermines peace.

If we capitulate to superstition or greed or stupidity we can plunge our world into a darkness deeper than the time between the collapse of classical civilization and the Italian Renaissance.

You're a greedy scoundrel! You want to marry her off for money!

I wanted to use her once for a painting, Avarice.

Let him be buried with the other victims of human greed and folly.

Greed was just taking a temporary break.

Greed, avarice, and envy were among the deadly sins.

It was the greed and recklessness that led to the drilling explosion.

(Narrator) We are not born with greed, envy, hatred, or bigotry.

It's a homey little story of intrigue... jealousy, avarice, and fraud.

If we get greedy and get caught, we're done for.

Nancy suspects that there is another force at work greed.

Is this why unfettered greed seemed normal to bankers?

The minute that drooling traitor sets his nose into Maracaibo...

The vulture funds have raised greed to a new level.

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

Why, then, did this greed manifest itself so manically?

The fundamental cause, according to the likes of John McCain, was greed and corruption on Wall Street.

Some were driven by an honest mission to expand property ownership others were driven by greed.

Be towards greed and anger or be it towards love and kindness.

Still very, very me focused. Who wouldn't get that greed is good?

How do we stop a system of greed and corruption, that has so much power and momentum.

And, at the same time, the opposite virtues of falsehood, covetousness, worldly flesh, and the devil became the antagonists.

The Greed is good mentality is a regular feature of financial crises.

It is a struggle within, a struggle against vice, sin, temptation, lust, greed.

Genetics is not responsible for greed, bigotry, racism, prejudice. All that is learned.

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

So we have greed, we've got overconfidence hubris, but since we're here at TEDWomen,

This is where our story of endless growth has taken us, to this black hole at the center of my country a place of such planetary pain that, like the BP gusher, one can only stand to look at it for so long.

Eliminate the processes that produce greed, and bigotry, and prejudice, and people taking advantage of one another, and elitism.

This left an ideological vacuum, swiftly filled in the 1980 s by greed, cynicism, and corruption.

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

All this is done because of unlimited greed sometimes it is done hypocritically in the name of development.

You can say that man has always been greedy due to scarcity or fear of loss.

Emphasizing greed and corruption as causes of the crisis leads to a bleak prognosis.

Entrepreneurs are greedy by definition if they were not, they would go bankrupt.

Fourth, greed cannot be controlled by any appeal to morality and values.

They combine fear with corruption to maintain kleptocracies dominated by the big man and his coterie.

For example, long before the financial collapse, experimental economists joined psychologists in attempting to measure varying propensities to greediness. Some evidence suggests that there is a link between the level of dopamine, addiction, and greedy behavior.