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Quote #7
Her [Mrs. Daneeka's] fantastic wealth just kept piling up, and she had to remind herself daily that all the hundreds of thousands of dollars she was acquiring were not worth a single penny without her husband to share this good fortune with her. (30.19)
Mrs. Daneeka shows greed by accepting money for her husband's death without directly questioning its validity. She becomes so greedy that she refuses to believe he might be alive, even when given evidence that suggests he is. Her desire for money replaces any desire to determine whether or not her husband is alive.
Quote #8
Milo had been earning many distinctions for himself. He had flown fearlessly into danger and criticism by selling petroleum and ball bearings to Germany at good prices in order to make a good profit and help maintain a balance of power between the contending forces. His nerve under fire was graceful and infinite. With a devotion to purpose above and beyond the line of duty, he had then raised the prices of food in his mess halls so high that all the officers and enlisted men had to turn over all their pay to him in order to eat. Their alternative – there was an alternative, of course, since Milo detested coercion and was a vocal champion of freedom of choice – was to starve. When he encountered a wave of enemy resistance to this attack, he stuck to his position without regard for his safety or reputation and gallantly invoked the law of supply and demand. And when someone somewhere said no, Milo gave ground grudgingly, valiantly defending, even in retreat, the historic right of free men to pay as much as they had to for the things they needed in order to survive. (35.12)
Milo's greed is so extensive that he has no compunction about driving up prices. His greed, it is implied, drives some men to starvation and death.