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The Fable of The Bees: or, Private Vices, Publick Benefits (1714) is a book by the Anglo-Dutch social philosopher Bernard Mandeville.It consists of the satirical poem The Grumbling Hive: or, Knaves turn'd Honest, which was first published anonymously in 1705; a prose discussion of the poem, called "Remarks"; and an essay, An Enquiry into the Origin of Moral Virtue.
Alfred R. Ferguson wrote of the poem, "Perhaps no single poem more fully embodies the ambiguous balance between paradisiac good and the paradoxically more fruitful human good than 'Nothing Gold Can Stay,' a poem in which the metaphors of Eden and the Fall cohere with the idea of felix culpa." [5]
Greed is good" is a catchphrase based on Gordon Gekko's quote "greed, for lack of a better word, is good" from the 1987 film Wall Street. Greed Is Good may also refer to: "Greed Is Good", a 1990 episode of Doogie Howser, M.D.
“The Eighties proclaimed that ‘greed is good’,” he said. “This song says it isn’t. It says it’s stupid.” ...
Last week, I published a piece about Bernie Madoff. Essentially, my point was that it wasn't greed that motivated him -- he didn't make a penny from his Ponzi scheme -- but rather pride and hubris.
Gekko’s dialogue actually was inspired by Stone’s own rants." After the film's original character Gordon Gekko began being perceived as a hero instead of a villain, for his line "Greed is good," in 2008, Weiser wrote in op-ed in the Los Angeles Times titled "Repeat After Me: Greed is Not Good." He wrote that when he wrote the screenplay, "I ...
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Shakespeare Sacrificed: Or the Offering to Avarice by James Gillray The Father and Mother by Boardman Robinson depicting War as the offspring of Greed and Pride. Greed (or avarice) is an insatiable desire for material gain (be it food, money, land, or animate/inanimate possessions) or social value, such as status, or power.