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...defeat, has magnified this hate a hundred times, hatred of the small against the great, the discontented against the restless, the servants against their masters, the ambitious classes against the declining classes, the hegemonic races against the vassal races, the ruling peoples against the peoples under their yoke. The greed for too much has led to the lack of necessities; the pruriency of pleasure, the gnawing of torture, the mania for liberty, the increase of shackles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Babylon! | 11/5/1923 | See Source »

...Utopian wireless?and he remains in Utopia for some time, studying its civilization. Finally, he returns?it is the only act of service he can do Utopia, for it will assist the ends of Utopian science returns, unwilling, to the old, individualistic earth of crowds and hate and private greed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Men Like Gods | 6/18/1923 | See Source »

...been recently stated, and in large measure proved, that insanity is due to the abnormal development of some one characteristic of the human mind. Where fear, where anger, where greed, or any one of a "number of things" is unduly predominant, there is insanity. The normal mind is that in which none of its attributes is overwhelmed by any of the rest...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "COLLEGIATE INSANITY" | 4/25/1922 | See Source »

...thought and action to the country is of prime value. An education that enables the world to receive an unending supply of virile and independent thinking man-hood, that can stand as adamant against the self-seeking selfishness of some who try to control and dominate through corporate greed and of some who go to excess in the labor movement, is an invaluable asset to a nation...

Author: By Louis A. Frothingham, (SPECIAL ARTICLE FOR THE CRIMSON) | Title: EXECUTIVE TRAINING PRICELESS BOON TO POLITICIANS | 3/27/1922 | See Source »

...decrease its araments or at least to limit them. It would be suicide to take such a step before the many baffling and perhaps insoluble problems which confront the Conference are satisfactorily settled. It is necessary to clear away misunderstandings, to change traditions centuries old, and to suppress the greed and lust of nations before any steps can be taken to effectively end war. The Open Door in China, the desire of militaristic and war-made Japan for expansion, and finally the innate craving for ascendency which exists in us individually and collectively; all of these must first be reckoned...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Communication | 10/18/1921 | See Source »

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