Peace is not something you fight for With bombs and missiles that kill, Nor can it be won in a "battle of… — Helen Steiner Rice Copy Share Image
Theres something unique about the United States, a sense of individual rights and freedoms, and a sense of social and civic responsibility… — George Hickenlooper Copy Share Image
The evil in our desires typically does not lie in what we want, but that we want it too much. — John Calvin Copy Share Image
I entreat masters to live a good life and faithfully to instruct their scholars, especially that they may love God and learn… — Jan Hus Copy Share Image
Arbitrary power is the natural object of temptation to a prince, as wine and women to a young fellow, or a bribe… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
He who feels that the vice of avarice has got hold of him, should not wish to observe fasts of supererogation, but… — Philip Neri Copy Share Image
“There is nothing more to chasing after wealth than the wastage of a person’s noble life for that which has no value.… — Ibn Rajab The Evil of Craving for Wealth and Status Copy Share Image
Accumulating knowledge is a form of avarice and lends itself to another version of the Midas story ...man [is] so avid for… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
“The best reason for committing loathsome and detestable acts--and let's face it, I am considered something of an expert in this field--is… — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
The tourist debauches the great monuments of antiquity, a comic figure, always inapt in his comments, incongruous in his appearance; ...avarice and… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
The miser is the man who starves himself and everybody else, in order to worship wealth in its dead form, as distinct… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The power of perpetuating our property in our families is one of the most valuable and interesting circumstances belonging to it, and… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Where today are the Pequot? Where are the Narragansett, the Mohican, the Pokanoket, and many other once powerful tribes of our people?… — Tecumseh Copy Share Image
There is no vice which humankind carries to such wild extremes as that of avarice. — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
History consists, for the greater part, of the miseries brought upon the world by pride, ambition, avarice, revenge, lust, sedition, hypocrisy, ungoverned… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
I can cure the gout or stone in some, sooner than Divinity, Pride, or Avarice in others. — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
Whatever thrift is, it is not avarice. Avarice is not generous; and, after all, it is the thrifty people who are generous. — Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery Copy Share Image
“They again kissed each other and fell asleep. The patch of light on the ceiling now seemed to be assuming the shape… — Émile Zola Copy Share Image
What the object of senile avarice may be I cannot conceive. For can there be anything more absurd than to seek more… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
The be-all and end-all of life should not be to get rich, but to enrich the world. — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
People who are hard, grasping and always ready to take advantage of their neighbors become very rich. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
