Avarice Quote by Alexander Pope

When every province of the world so teems with inhabitants that they can neither subsist where they are nor remove themselves elsewhere... the world…

— Niccolo Machiavelli

Heaven and Earth are meeting in a storm that, when it's over, will leave the air purer and the leaves fertile, but before that…

— Paulo Coelho

“The floods which devastate regions, the fire of the lightning which reduces cities to ashes, the poison of the plague which afflicts provinces, are…

— Frederick the Great

Corruption is like a ball of snow, once it's set a rolling it must increase.

— Charles Caleb Colton

So now the floodgates are open to the delight of pure form, whatever its origin. Anything goes.

— Philip Johnson

“The world once purged by flood ends always again in the surer purgative of fire.”

— Milton Mayer

Corruption has seeped into every section of life.

— Jaggi Vasudev

From being a dream, dams have become a very cynical corrupt enterprise; a way of letting governments lay their hands on huge sums of…

— Arundhati Roy

All Earthquakes and Disasters are warnings; there’s too much corruption in the world

— Aristotle

Our country is now taking so steady a course as to show by what road it will pass to destruction, to wit: by consolidation…

— Thomas Jefferson

When it's all said and done, you may go through the fire, through the flood, through the famine, but you'll come out standing strong.

— Joel Osteen

Most floods are caused by man, not weather; deforestation, levee construction, erosion, and overgrazing all result in the loss of ecosystem services.

— Paul Hawken