Greed-for lack of a better word-is good. Greed is right. Greed works. — Oliver Stone Copy Share Image
...Covetousness, looking more at what we would have than at what we have. — Joseph Hall Copy Share Image
“Covetousness gives birth to violence, while violence gives birth to oppression.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
I have heard thousands of confessions, but never one of covetousness. — Francis Xavier Copy Share Image
If you would abolish covetousness, you must abolish its mother, profusion. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
I think if the church put in half the time on covetousness that it does on lust, this would be a better… — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
One be covetous when he has little, much or anything between, for covetousness comes from the heart, not from the circumstances of… — Charles Caldwell Ryrie Copy Share Image
The evils of the body are murder, theft, and adultery; of the tongue, lying, slander, abuse and idle talk; of the mind,… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
“Take heed and beware of covetousness: for one’s life does not consist in the abundance of the things which he possesses. - … — H.H. Fowler Copy Share Image
There are three things against which the wise man guards: lust when young, quarrels when strong, and covetousness when old. — Confucius Copy Share Image
Covetousness is the greatest misfortune. One who does not know what is enough will never have enough. — Laozi Copy Share Image
There are three things which the superior man guards against. In youth ... lust. When he is strong ... quarrelsomeness. When he… — Confucius Copy Share Image
The covetous map explores the whole world in pursuit of a subsistence, and fate is close at his heels. — Saadi Copy Share Image
If we are to say no to covetousness, we must learn to say yes to contentment. This involves learning to be content… — Alistair Begg Copy Share Image
The religious leader is the most untrustworthy of leaders; in no other station do we have so many opportunities for pride, covetousness… — Eugene H. Peterson Copy Share Image
It isn't sex by itself that makes abortion. It is sex plus covetousness: desiring things that God does not will for us… — John Piper Copy Share Image
The antidote for covetousness is contentment. The two are in opposition. Whereas the covetous, greedy person worships himself, the contented person worships… — John Macarthur Copy Share Image
But fornication and all uncleanness or covetousness, let it not even be named among you, as is fitting for saints; neither filthiness,… — Paul the Apostle Copy Share Image
To know how to distinguish the agitation arising from covetousness, from the agitation arising from principles, to fight the one and aid… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
NBC is excited about the investment in WWF Entertainment. The WWF is widely recognized as having created a leading brand and has… — Bob Wright Copy Share Image
Where necessity ends, desire and curiosity begin; and no sooner are we supplied with everything nature can demand than we sit down… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The Word says, ‘Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world’ (1 John 2:15). Jesus warned, ‘Beware of… — David Wilkerson Copy Share Image
Look at them. There are your true philosophers. I think that Mack and the boys know everything that has ever happened in… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
While it is undeniable that many have been driven to immorality and crime by the need to survive, it is equally evident… — Aung San Suu Kyi Copy Share Image
Perfect love is to feeling what perfect white is to color. Many think that white is the absence of color. It is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“But, and here comes the rub, all of us feel that we are in complete control of our desire for things. We… — Richard J. Foster Copy Share Image
It was with good reason that God commanded through Moses that the vineyard and harvest were not to be gleaned to the… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
The covetous man feareth not God. This also is plain from the word because it setteth covetousness and the fear of God… — John Bunyan Copy Share Image
The only beneficiaries of income taxation are the politicians, for it not only gives them the means by which they can increase… — Frank Chodorov Copy Share Image
A man's life consisteth not in the abundance of the things which he possesseth. — Luke the Evangelist Copy Share Image
Conscience and covetousness are never to be reconciled; like fire and water they always destroy each other, according to the predominancy of… — Jeremy Collier Copy Share Image
The covetous man pines in plenty, like Tantalus up to the chin in water, and yet thirsty. — Thomas Adams Copy Share Image
The curse of covetousness is that it destroys manhood by substituting money for character. — Lucy Larcom Copy Share Image
Covetousness, like a candle ill made, smothers the splendor of a happy fortune in its own grease. — Frances Osborne Copy Share Image
