Cornel West Quotes About Greed
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We want to bear witness today that we know the relation between corporate greed and what goes on too often in the Supreme Court decisions.
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The powerful have no monopoly on greed, hatred, fear, or ignorance.
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We [Americans] have to get beyond the greed-run-amok. We have to get beyond indifference to the poor and working people. We have to get beyond polarized politics.
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It's impossible to translate Wall Street greed into one or two demands.
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You can see it in terms of the obsession on Wall Street with not just profits but greed, more profit, more profit.
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I think nonviolence and the mediation of conflict by means of respecting civility must be promoted. But being the kind of beings we [peoplep] are - wrestling with greed, and wrestling with fears and security, anxieties, wrestling with hatred that's shot through all of us - wars are here to stay.
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It's a spiritual malnutrition tied to a moral constipation, where people have a sense of what's right and what's good. It's just stuck, and they can't get it out because there's too much greed. There's too much obsession with reputation and addiction to narrow conceptions of success.
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