Urges ... every man has urges. But the true measure of man is to admit them, to learn to control them. The… — Bray Wyatt Copy Share Image
Sometimes, if we are faced with obstacles, be they tangible or not, such as jealousy, worldly sentiment, greed, hatred or obsession, etc.,… — Ching Hai Copy Share Image
Our task is to build cultural fortresses to protect our emerging nativeness. They must be strong enough to hold at bay the… — Wes Jackson Copy Share Image
Today we celebrate Earth Day. I exhort everyone to see the world through the eyes of God the Creator: the earth is… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Greed and desire Not peace, but fire Coveting creation Created damnation Pulled alongside A gate thrown too wide Now our home calls… — Kiersten White Copy Share Image
Beware of compromises. I do not mean that you are to get into antagonism with anybody, but you have to hold on… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Imagine discovering a continent so vast that it may have no end to its dimensions. Imagine a new world with more resources… — John Perry Barlow Copy Share Image
If we lived in a State where virtue was profitable, common sense would make us good, and greed would make us saintly.… — Robert Bolt Copy Share Image
John Cobb is saying that perhaps we are beginning to see that now as our greed goes completely out of control and… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
Evil conquered?' said Gwydion. 'You have learned much, but learn this last and hardest of lessons. You have conquered only the enchantments… — Lloyd Alexander Copy Share Image
I don't know what America has really learned. We are too quick to do what's expedient on behalf of our culture of… — Harry Belafonte Copy Share Image
“Thus did a handful of rapacious citizens come to control all that was worth controlling in America. Thus was the savage and… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Artists aren't necessarily business people. And they aren't necessarily aware of all the things that go on in their names. Some just… — Tom Petty Copy Share Image
“And what, O Queen, are those things that are dear to a man? Are they not bubbles? Is not ambition but an… — H. Rider Haggard Copy Share Image
Mysticism has often been misunderstood as the attempt to escape this simple, phenomenal world to a more pure existence in heaven beyond.… — Walter Wink Copy Share Image
“Pah…commoners, traders." Ergus made a disparaging gesture. Traders with money, Ergus. Money they put at the disposition of young Tanahkos," Lmachdan said… — Andrew Ashling Copy Share Image
Sin is one thing but instinctive reaction or passion is another. These are our reactions: pride, anger, sexual indulgence, hate, greed, and… — Dorotheus of Gaza Copy Share Image
“He who creates a poison, also has the cure. He who creates a virus, also has the antidote. He who creates chaos,… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
Commercial interests with their advertising industry do not want people to develop contentment and less greed. Military interests in economic, political, ethnic… — Robert Thurman Copy Share Image
If war can indeed be turned into a relic, then the virtue of greed will recede further. From a given society's standpoint,… — Robert Wright Copy Share Image
“Something is profoundly wrong with the way we live today. For thirty years we have made a virtue out of the pursuit… — Tony Judt Copy Share Image
I just discovered that there were so many lost movies that were all mine to take if I wanted to take them.… — Guy Maddin Copy Share Image
“For the rest of his life, the greater the chaos, the calmer Rockefeller would become, particularly when others around him were either… — Ryan Holiday Copy Share Image
“The most dangerous people in the world are not the tiny minority instigating evil acts, but those who do the acts for… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
Greed, desire, ambition, jealousy, possessiveness, domination - you have to watch everything. And they are all interconnected, remember. If greed disappears, then… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
And what, you ask, does writing teach us? First and foremost, it reminds us that we are alive and that it is… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“The collective sign of relief heaved on V-J Day ought to have inspired Hollywood to release a flood of "happily ever after"… — Eddie Muller Copy Share Image
In 302, the Roman emperor Diocletian commanded "there should be cheapness," declaring, "Unprincipled greed appears wherever our armies ... march. ... Our… — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
There's a hole in the world like a great black pit and the vermin of the world inhabit it and its morals… — Stephen Sondheim Copy Share Image
I have lived in the pursuit of a vision, both personal and social. Personal: to care for what is noble, for what… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I'm not going to have the TV personality and be like, 'There's no bitterness. There's no ugliness.' There's bitterness. There's ugliness. There's… — Pete Holmes Copy Share Image
There are parallels between the 1960s and now, because during the 1960s, people were being slaughtered, their lives were being taken, there… — Alveda King Copy Share Image
“It seems to me that evil is a kind of ultimate greed, a greed that is so all-encompassing that it can't ever… — Mercedes Lackey Copy Share Image
The terrible, cold, cruel part is Wall Street. Rivers of gold flow there from all over the earth, and death comes with… — Federico Garcia Lorca Copy Share Image
When the Internet first came into public use, it was hailed as a liberation from conformity, a floating world ruled by passion,… — Neil Strauss Copy Share Image
“Nonetheless, many people, and especially intellectuals, passionately loathe capitalism. As they see it, this ghastly mode of society’s economic organization has brought… — Ludwig Von Mises Copy Share Image
I'm very much about the environment, I'm very much about health, about being able to, at the very least, eat organic, whole… — Lenny Kravitz Copy Share Image
Keep your hands clean and pure from the infamous vice of corruption, a vice so infamous that it degrades even the other… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
“I wanted them to realized that there is enough time, enough love, and certainly enough apple pie in life ... I believed… — Judith Hanson Lasater Copy Share Image
You point out that war is only a symptom of the whole horrid business of human behavior, and cannot be isolated. And… — Rose Macaulay Copy Share Image
