...Covetousness, looking more at what we would have than at what we have. — Joseph Hall Copy Share Image
Greed-for lack of a better word-is good. Greed is right. Greed works. — Oliver Stone Copy Share Image
Luxury... corrupts at once rich and poor, the rich by possession and the poor by covetousness. — Henri Rousseau Copy Share Image
When workmen strive to do better than well, they do confound their skill in covetousness. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“When you see injustice among the nations, you will find out that the root cause is covetousnes.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
Covetousness is the greatest of monsters, as well as the root of all evil. — William Penn Copy Share Image
A man's life consisteth not in the abundance of the things which he possesseth. — Luke the Evangelist 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
Shall I tell you of their plundering, their covetousness, their abandonment of the poor, their thefts, their cheating in trade? — Saint John Chrysostom Copy Share Image
The case of the Baconians is not won until it has been proved that the substitution of covetousness for wantlessness, or an… — Richard M. Weaver Copy Share Image
advertising confuses values ... By appealing either to fear, or to vanity, or to covetousness, it very skillfully insinuates false values. — Ann Bridge 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
There are three things which the superior man guards against. In youth ... lust. When he is strong ... quarrelsomeness. When he… — Confucius 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
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
I never had any other desire so strong, and so like covetousness, as that ... I might be master at last of… — Abraham Cowley 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
Socialism violates at least three of the Ten Commandments: It turns government into God, it legalizes thievery and it elevates covetousness. Discussions… — Ben Shapiro Copy Share Image
The Devil endeavours by every means to keep men in error, in the enticement of the passions, in darkness of mind and… — John of Kronstadt 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
“Hebrews 13:5 Let your conversation be without covetousness; and be content with such things as ye have: for he hath said, I… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I love Prada. Not so much the clothes, which are for malnourished thirteen-year-olds, but I covet, with covety covetousness, the shoes and… — Marian Keyes Copy Share Image
It is alleged by men of loose principles, or defective views of the subject, that religion and morality are not necessary or… — Noah Webster Copy Share Image
Let us avoid debt as we would avoid a plague...Let every head of every household see to it that he has on… — J. Reuben Clark 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
“Nothing is quite so attractive in our possession as it was when coveted” — Pliny the Younger Copy Share Image
“When you see injustice among the nations, you will find out that the root cause is covetousness.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
As covetousness is the root of all evil, so poverty is the worst of all snares. — Daniel Defoe Copy Share Image
“for with their mouth they shew much love, but their heart goeth after their covetousness.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Greed is a contagious mental illness without which civilization as we know it would not have been possible.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Not to be covetous, is money; not to be a purchaser, is a revenue. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
When there is firm conquest over covetousness, they who have conquered it wake up to the how and why of life. — Patanjali Copy Share Image
The covetous person lives as if the world were made altogether for him, and not he for the world. — Robert South Copy Share Image
If you would abolish covetousness, you must abolish its mother, profusion. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
