192 quotes found
“Saying of the ProphetDesireDesire not the world, and God will love you. Desire not what others have, and they will love you.”
“So I had something to do, something I'd done, someplace to go, and something to look forward to. That's a reasonable way to live. I enjoyed myself living. I had a good time. How much else can you a...”
“The God I believe in isn't short on cash, mister.”
“Money. The ultimate motivation. The ultimate way of keeping score.”
“So the unwanting soulsees what's hidden,and the ever-wanting soulsees only what it wants.”
“Our greed for joy is the sole reason for our sorrows”
“Being a human is a great power. One can obtain everything. However, it is the greed that harasses him.”
“There is no wealth but life.”
“Every greed is the root of un-gratefulness.”
“What does greed mean? Greed means taking away what belongs to others.”
“Most of the mess that is called history comes about because kings and presidents cannot be satisfied with a nice chicken and a good loaf of bread.”
“Gradually it became known that the new race had a definite purpose, and that purpose was to chart and possess the whole country, regardless of the rights of its earlier inhabitants. Still the old c...”
“And shall we at last become the victims of our own abominable lust of gain? Forbid it, Heaven." Washington himself could be a hard driving businessman, yet he found the rapacity of many vendors unc...”
“Lust is insatiable, whether it feeds on power, wealth, or flesh. It eventually consumes our morality and ultimately consumes our humanity.”
“Time is self absorbed, takes what it wants and doesn't return the favor. It is greedy, its pockets full of the lives of those left behind. It is a magician and a thief.”
“We always want what is not ours. Its intriguing. We think if we can just get that, well finally be happy. The lure of what we do not have is deceptive.True freedom, however, is found in being conte...”
“Sometimes we hold the world in our hands, but in our greed for more let it fall, losing everything that we once had.”
“Pride has traditionally been regarded as the foremost of the Seven Deadly Sins, but it has rather obviously been overtaken by Greed.”
“Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable, and others extremely diff...”
“Idle Jeffrey, when asking his cousin for money: "I fear I have not a mercenary tendency." The Chancellor of the Exchequer and his cousin, Plantagenet Palliser: "Men must have mercenary tendencies o...”
