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Tag Name "Covetousness" (51)

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Covetousness, anger and foolishness are things to sort out well. When bad things happen in the world, if you look at them comparatively, they are not unrelated to these three things.
Yamamoto Tsunetomo
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Covetousness is a sort of mental gluttony, not confined to money, but craving honor, and feeding on selfishness.
Nicolas Chamfort
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Covetousness bursts the sack and spills the grain.
Walter Scott
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Covetousness like jealousy, when it has taken root, never leaves a person, but with their life. Cowardice is the dread of what will happen.
Epictetus
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Covetousness, like a candle ill made, smothers the splendor of a happy fortune in its own grease.
Frances Osborne
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Covetousness is the greatest of monsters, as well as the root of all evil.
William Penn
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Covetousness is the greatest misfortune. One who does not know what is enough will never have enough.
Laozi
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If you would abolish covetousness, you must abolish its mother, profusion.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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advertising confuses values ... By appealing either to fear, or to vanity, or to covetousness, it very skillfully insinuates false values.
Ann Bridge
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The usual disease of princes, grasping covetousness, had made them suspicious and quarrelsome neighbors.
Plutarch
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One be covetous when he has little, much or anything between, for covetousness comes from the heart, not from the circumstances of life.
Charles Caldwell Ryrie
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The case of the Baconians is not won until it has been proved that the substitution of covetousness for wantlessness, or an ascending spiral of desires for a stable requirement of necessities, leads to a happier condition.
Richard M. Weaver
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There are three things against which the wise man guards: lust when young, quarrels when strong, and covetousness when old.
Confucius
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Shall I tell you of their plundering, their covetousness, their abandonment of the poor, their thefts, their cheating in trade?
Saint John Chrysostom
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As covetousness is the root of all evil, so poverty is the worst of all snares.
Daniel Defoe
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To know how to distinguish the agitation arising from covetousness, from the agitation arising from principles, to fight the one and aid the other, in this lies the genius and the power of great revolutionary leaders.
Victor Hugo
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It was left for the present age to endow Covetousness with glamour on a big scale, and to give it a title which it could carry like a flag. It occurred to somebody to call it Enterprise. From the moment of that happy inspiration, Covetousness has gone forward and never looked back.
Dorothy L. Sayers
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The yearning after equality [in economic outcome] is the offspring of envy and covetousness, and there is no possible plan for satisfying that yearning which can do aught else than rob A to give to B consequently all such plans nourish some of the meanest vices of human nature, waste capital, and overthrow civilization.
William Graham Sumner
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The religious leader is the most untrustworthy of leaders in no other station do we have so many opportunities for pride, covetousness and lust, and with so many excellent disguises to keep such ignobility from being found out and called to account.
Eugene H. Peterson
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That plenty should produce either covetousness or prodigality is a perversion of providence and yet the generality of men are the worse for their riches.
William Penn
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Bare-faced covetousness was the moving spirit of civilization from its first dawn to the present day wealth, and again wealth, and for the third time wealth wealth, not of society, but of the puny individual, was its only and final aim.
Friedrich Engels
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Desire of having is the sin of covetousness.
William Shakespeare
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I think if the church put in half the time on covetousness that it does on lust, this would be a better world for all of us.
Garrison Keillor
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Do not underestimate what you specific conventional, nor covetousness others. He who envies others does not terra firma organization of intellect.
Gautama Buddha
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