We are close to God when we are close to people. If we think of God as something in favor of the… — Daniel Ortega Copy Share Image
The greed of gain has no time or limit to its capaciousness. Its one object is to produce and consume. It has… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
“We have a talent for disguising greed under the cloak of freedom. As for past acts of depravity, we prefer to ignore… — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
“Worst of all carnivores are the humans, There is no end to their appetite. Animals no longer partake once they are full,… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
There was a time in my life when I thought I had everything - millions of dollars, mansions, cars, nice clothes, beautiful… — Richard Pryor Copy Share Image
It is easy to shield the outer body from poisoned arrows, but it is impossible to shield the mind from the poisoned… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“Greed is right. Greed works. Greed clarifies,cuts through, and captures the essence of the evolutionary spirit. Greed, in all of its forms-greed… — Gordon Gekko Copy Share Image
O painter, take care lest the greed for gain prove a stronger incentive than renown in art, for to gain this renown… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
“Now we see again, under the blue heavens where the larks are singing in the hot April sky, why the Romans called… — D.H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Either greed belongs in a war zone, or it doesn't. You can't unleash it in the name of sparking an economic boom… — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
“From the subtle afflictions caused by love of status is seeking after and aspiring positions of authority – this is something whose… — Ibn Rajab The Evil of Craving for Wealth and Status Copy Share Image
“You can have it all, Luxury and wealth, A lot of friends and a good health, And own everything on earth. However,… — Nomthandazo Tsembeni Copy Share Image
In the past, traditional art was based on making manifest what is enduring in man, like love, jealousy, hatred, envy, and greed...… — Tawfiq al-Hakim Copy Share Image
There was not one cause for our internment, but many - a deep-seated racial prejudice working on top of fear, distrust, and… — Gretel Ehrlich Copy Share Image
I think the Buddhist ethic is clearer and more systematic in some ways. The Buddhist notion is that our chief problems are… — Ninian Smart Copy Share Image
What's interesting to 'Vikings' the series is that Horik is so blind in his greed and his desire for revenge that he… — Donal Logue Copy Share Image
The evil to be attacked is not sin, suffering, greed, priesthood, kingcraft, demagogy, monopoly, ignorance, drink, war, pestilence, nor any of the… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The pain of sexual frustration, of repressed tenderness, of denied curiosity, of isolation in the ego, of greed, suppressed rebellion, of hatred… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
“I can’t do that,” he said, exhaling sharply and staring out the glass into the street. “Why not?” His face softened. “I… — Fisher Amelie Copy Share Image
Ubuntu is not a biblical concept but an ancient African one. Nevertheless it falls back on one simple thing: that humans have… — Allan Boesak Copy Share Image
God knows greed won't vanish. Neither will hatred or chauvanism. Human nature is a stubborn thing. But it isn't beyond control. Even… — Robert Wright Copy Share Image
“Jealousy, hatred, greed, and the like lead to suffering and dissatisfaction because they’re out of step with reality. They paint a misleading… — Jonathan Landaw Copy Share Image
“Your heart desire will come, but when it comes, you desire for another, and when it comes again, you still aspire for… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
“Where anger-pride-deceit-greed is absent, the worldly interactions are pure. Or else, if there is attentive awareness [upayog] over them, till then it… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
Left to my own devices, in the face of the climate change deniers, the madness and the greed-based decision-making, and propaganda that's… — Trent Reznor Copy Share Image
Perhaps all our troubles - all the violence, obesity, illness, depression, and greed we can't overcome - began when we stopped living… — Christopher McDougall Copy Share Image
You've got to drop something. You've got to drop illusions. You don't have to add anything in order to be happy; you've… — Anthony de Mello Copy Share Image
“For years he had led the prayer each Sunday at the First Methodist Church in Danesboro, and the other six days he… — John Grisham Copy Share Image
“Behind this public glorification of greed, three recent experimental research studies suggest that the academic discipline of economics encourages a culture of… — Vaddhaka Linn Copy Share Image
“And the so-called 'political process' is a fraud: Our elected officials, like our bureaucratic functionaries, like even our judges, are largely the… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
At a time when unbridled greed, malignant aggression, and existence of weapons of mass destruction threatens the survival of humanity, we should… — Stanislav Grof Copy Share Image
The inescapable fact is that when we build a society based on greed, selfishness, and ruthless competition, the fruits we can expect… — Tommy Douglas Copy Share Image
Rejoice for those around you who transform into the Force. Mourn them, do not. Miss them, do not. Attachment leads to jealousy.… — George Lucas Copy Share Image
“Human behavior is economic behavior. The particulars may vary, but competition for limited resources remains a constant. Need as well as greed… — Nwabudike Morgan Copy Share Image
We have seen that in this country in the last few years, particularly on Wall Street, with the rise of the old… — Lee R. Raymond Copy Share Image
Just think: you cannot find a single misery for which you are not responsible. It may be jealousy, it may be anger,… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“In negotiations, everyone goes home with a slice of tactful compromise but nobody gets to binge on the whole cake and leave… — Stewart Stafford Copy Share Image
My depth of purse is not so great Nor yet my bibliophilic greed, That merely buying doth elate: The books I buy… — A. Edward Newton Copy Share Image
As Jesus explained, the right things have to die so the right things can live--we die to selfishness, greed, power, accumulation, prestige,… — Jen Hatmaker Copy Share Image
“There," she said, waving her hands at the corridor. The expression of delight on her face was a very bad thing to… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image