Extreme concupiscence may be found under extreme austerity.

Concupiscence and force are the source of all our actions; concupiscence causes voluntary actions, force involuntary ones.

— Blaise Pascal

“Let love therefore be what it will, my Uncle Toby fell into it—And possibly, gentle reader, with such a temptation so wouldst thou: For…

— Laurence Sterne

“The Pelagianizing Romanist says, Lust, or concupiscence, brings forth sin, therefore it cannot be sin, because the mother cannot be the child. We reply,…

— Charles Porterfield Krauth

“The smoke from her cigarette passed beneath the nostrils of the brown and white girls, and their space-annihilating concupiscence seemed centered on mentholated smoke…

— Kurt Vonnegut Jr

“I experienced by observing my own body and my own soul that I sorely needed sin, sorely needed concupiscence, needed greed, vanity, and the…

— Hermann Hesse

As we grow detached from things, we come (with God's help) to master our desires, and we give the mastery over to God. Discipline…

— Scott Hahn

“[I]t is not by being richer or more powerful that a man becomes better; one is a matter of fortune, the other of virtue.…

— Héloïse

It is opposition to economic orthodoxy that leads us into austerity and cuts. But it is also a thirst for something more communal, more…

— Jeremy Corbyn

You can be creative only when there is abandonment-which means, really, there is no sense of compulsion, no fear of not being, of not…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

The flaw in, say, austerity, is that its success is predicated on the relative exactitude of math rather than the shifting, liquid imperfection of…

— Steven Weber

Too many politicians seem to reach for 'infrastructure' as the default answer to investment, as if roads and bridges were the answer to everything.…

— Mariana Mazzucato

“South of Larissa the landscape began to change. Jude watched an irrigation machine like a giant stick insect creeping over a field, and a…

— Paul Alkazraji

I believe that if we are able to, obviously we need to ensure that we have a robust budget that's balanced, but there's no…

— Jagmeet Singh

“It was my good fortune to be linked with Mme. Curie through twenty years of sublime and unclouded friendship. I came to admire her…

— Albert Einstein

Mainstream economic theories popular in the last several decades have tended to downplay the government's role in markets and to increase skepticism about even…

— Mariana Mazzucato