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Tag Name "Covetousness" (68)

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There are three things to beware of through life: when a man is young, let him beware of his appetites when he is middle-aged, of his passions and when old, of covetousness, especially.
Confucius
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The character of covetousness, is what a man generally acquires more through some niggardliness or ill grace in little and inconsiderable things, than in expenses of any consequence.
Alexander Pope
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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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Frugality is good if liberality be joined with it. The first is leaving off superfluous expenses the last is bestowing them to the benefit of others that need. The first without the last begets covetousness the last without the first begets prodigality.
William Penn
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Desire of having is the sin of covetousness.
William Shakespeare
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Excess of wealth is cause of covetousness.
Christopher Marlowe
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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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Covetousness is the greatest misfortune. One who does not know what is enough will never have enough.
Laozi
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The covetous person is full of fear and he or she who lives in fear will ever be a slave.
Horace
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The covetous man heaps up riches, not to enjoy them, but to have them and starves himself in the midst of plenty, and most unnaturally cheats and robs himself of that which is his own and makes a hard shift, to be as poor and miserable with a great estate, as any man can be without it.
John Tillotson
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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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The whole attempt to advance the kind of consumer society that depends for its growth on the ceaseless stimulation of unlimited covetousness among the rich, while the poor majority rot in their poverty-this is surely something against which a Christian should be a nonconformist.
Lesslie Newbigin
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True it is that covetousness is rich, modesty starves.
John Milton
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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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When workmen strive to do better than well, they do confound their skill in covetousness.
William Shakespeare
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Socialism violates at least three of the Ten Commandments: It turns government into God, it legalizes thievery and it elevates covetousness. Discussions of income inequality, after all, aren't about prosperity but about petty spite. Why should you care how much money I make, so long as you are happy?
Ben Shapiro
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Covetousness bursts the sack and spills the grain.
Walter Scott
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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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Being delivered from bodily sins is not enough we must also cleanse the inner energy which dwells in our soul. For out of our hearts 'proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders, thefts, covetousness' (Mk. 7:21) and so on ? these are what motivate people.
Gregory Palamas
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The covetous map explores the whole world in pursuit of a subsistence, and fate is close at his heels.
Saadi
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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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If thou fill thy brain with Boston and New York, with fashion and covetousness, and wilt stimulate thy jaded senses with wine and French coffee, thou shalt find no radiance of wisdom in the lonely waste of the pinewoods.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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If you would abolish covetousness, you must abolish its mother, profusion.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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If money be not thy servant, it will be thy master. The covetous man cannot so properly be said to possess wealth, as that may be said to possess him.
Francis Bacon
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