IF YOU WOULD BE FREE OF GREED, FIRST YOU HAVE TO LEAVE EGOTISM BEHIND. THE BEST MENTAL EXERCISE FOR RELINQUISHING EGOTISM IS… — Dogen Copy Share Image
“The world is old and full of lessons. We will not lack for examples. We only have to look around carefully, earnestly,… — Psyche Roxas-Mendoza Copy Share Image
Well, 'They Live' was a primal scream against Reaganism of the '80s. And the '80s never went away. They're still with us.… — John Carpenter Copy Share Image
Let us again clothe ourselves with these proved and sterling virtues - honesty, truthfulness, chastity, sobriety, temperance, industry, and thrift; let us… — J. Reuben Clark Copy Share Image
On some deep cosmic level, we are all one, and within us we each contain the potential for good and for destruction,… — Starhawk Copy Share Image
“Projectors, Brokers of Capital, Insurancers, Peddlers upon the global Scale, Enterprisers and Quacks,— these are the last poor fallen and feckless inheritors… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
The truth now.He was disappointed in human beings.He had seen too many betrayals,too many pitiful weaknesses,too much greed for money and fame.The… — Mario Puzo Copy Share Image
There are many winds full of anger, and lust and greed. They move the rubbish around, but the solid mountain of our… — Rumi Copy Share Image
More than an end to war, we want an end to the beginnings of all wars. Yes, an end to this brutal,… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“There are people who are never content, never appeased, forever dissatisfied—who continually look to what escapes them, convincing themselves that if only… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
“Just as sex is a God-given instinct for the prolongation of the human race, so the desire for property as a prolongation… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
I've been working in Hollywood for a long time now in many different aspects in front of the camera, behind the camera,… — James Van Praagh Copy Share Image
Neither fear nor self-interest can convert the soul. They may change the appearance, perhaps even the conduct, but never the object of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“She had some appreciation for folks with a greed for sensation. Who were determined to "squeeze the orange" and press fresh experience… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
The first thing, the very very first thing, "Find out what your greatest characteristic is, your greatest undoing, your central characteristic of… — G. I. Gurdjieff Copy Share Image
The trouble with the new world we have watched being created over the past decade is that it sees no further than… — Anita Roddick Copy Share Image
“Was there any more repellent sight, Harriet wondered, than a silly, self-centred, greedy woman clad in the skin of a beast so… — Olivia Manning Copy Share Image
The ethos on Wall Street has not changed, and that's not going to come from the corner office. That's going to come,… — Andrew Ross Sorkin Copy Share Image
“reactions and think. That is important. We will always have emotions of fear and greed. From here on in, it’s imperative for… — Robert T. Kiyosaki Copy Share Image
The way to healthy living is to shift from quantitative economic growth to quality of life, food, water and air - to… — Satish Kumar Copy Share Image
Pride is the king of vices...it is the first of the pallbearers of the soul...other vices destroy only their opposite virtues, as… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
Avarice is generally the last passion of those lives of which the first part has been squandered in pleasure, and the second… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“(...) personal prejudice and financial greed are the two great evils that threaten courts of law, and once they get the upper… — Thomas More Copy Share Image
“No matter how corrupt or greedy our government is, our corporations, our media, our religious and charitable institutions may come, the music… — Kurt Vonnegut Jr Copy Share Image
If it wasn't for good," my mother says, "we human beings would have been wiped out a long time ago. Either the… — Joseph Bruchac Copy Share Image
There are a lot of people who are doing wonderful things, quietly, with no motive of greed, or hostility toward other people,… — Charles Kuralt Copy Share Image
“There is no more destructive force in human affairs -- not greed, not hatred -- than the desire to have been right.… — Mark A.R. Kleiman Copy Share Image
With Napster and the sharing of music, of course, there are going to be people who exploit it. Greed has no end.… — Ian MacKaye Copy Share Image
I think we crushed ourselves down over the centuries. Buried ourselves under greed and hate and whatever other sins we could find… — Isaac Marion Copy Share Image
What the eye delights in, no longer dictates My greed to enjoy: boys, grass, the fenced-off deer. It leaves those figures that… — Stephen Spender Copy Share Image
“It is often said of the gold rush that the people who got rich were the shovel dealers who profited from the… — Zac Bissonnette Copy Share Image
If the world was full peace and happiness there would be one man full of evil and greed. but the one thing… — Kathryn Powell Copy Share Image
“Where an attitude of thankfulness is not, greed takes root. And that root will only fall to the axe of thankfulness. Therefore,… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
Conservatives claim they are 'one nation' Tories when they have actually been a government for the 1% who have undermined our economic… — John McDonnell Copy Share Image
Above all, beware of compromises. I do not mean that you are to get into antagonism with anybody, but you have to… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
It seems the BJP desperately needs to win Mumbai to stand on its feet once again. After all, the greed to win… — Uddhav Thackeray Copy Share Image
The matriarchal society 1300 years ago in Egypt was a peaceful society; that's where you had no war for thousands of years!… — David LaChapelle Copy Share Image
It is partly to avoid consciousness of greed that we prefer to associate with those who are at least as greedy as… — Charles Horton Cooley Copy Share Image
Mediation and reconciliation work is about a profound quest for justice and social transformation. But at the same time, they are about… — Hizkias Assefa Copy Share Image
“Many obese people spend a significant amount of their energy on suppressing the urge to tell some of the people who are… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
