Quote by Ben Stein
Greed is a basic part of animal nature. Being against it is like b

Greed is a basic part of animal nature. Being against it is like being against breathing or eating. It means nothing. – Ben Stein

Other quotes by Ben Stein

I thought that all of the sacrifices and blessings of the whole history of mankind have devolved upon me. Thank you, God. – Ben Stein

Category:
History
Author
Ben Stein
Read Quote

If you want to fight the evil you see in finance and industry, get to work reading the corporate filings, see if there has been fraud, and where you find it, report it to the SEC or write about it or blog about it. – Ben Stein

Category:
finance
Author
Ben Stein
Read Quote

Americans are terrified because so many of them have been laid off in recent years and months and they fear that they may be next. Even if they have not been laid off or have not known anyone laid off, they definitely know someone who has lost his home. – Ben Stein

Category:
Fear
Author
Ben Stein
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Nature
category

No man has received from nature the right to command his fellow human beings. – Denis Diderot

Category:
Nature

Nature, more of a stepmother than a mother in several ways, has sown a seed of evil in the hearts of mortals, especially in the more thoughtful men, which makes them dissatisfied with their own lot and envious of another s. – Desiderius Erasmus

Category:
Nature

Of all natures gifts to the human race, what is sweeter to a man than his children? – Marcus Tullius Cicero

Category:
Nature

The beautiful spring came and when Nature resumes her loveliness, the human soul is apt to revive also. – Harriet Ann Jacobs

Category:
Nature

Random Quotes

If so many men, so many minds, certainly so many hearts, so many kinds of love. – Leo Tolstoy

Category:
Love

I filmed Albatross before I got Downton. Its a coming-of-age movie about this girl who leaps into this familys life, like a whirlwind. Shes ballsy and brash and wonderful, it was such an amazing character to play. – Jessica Brown Findlay

Category:
amazing

Out of the quarrel with others we make rhetoric; out of the quarrel with ourselves we make poetry. – W.B. Yeats

Category:
Poetry

The bomb that fell on Hiroshima fell on America too. It fell on no city, no munition plants, no docks. It erased no church, vaporized no public buildings, reduced no man to his atomic elements. But it fell, it fell. – Hermann Hagedorn, “The Bomb That Fell on America”

Category:
War