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- PROPERTY, n. Any material thing, having no particular value, that may be held by A against the cupidity of B. Whatever gratifies… — Ambrose Bierce
- The communism of combined wealth and capital, the outgrown of overweening cupidity and selfishness which assiduously undermines the justice and integrity of… — Grover Cleveland
- From the earliest ages of history to the present day there have never been thirteen millions of people associated in one political… — Andrew Jackson
- War provides an outlet for every evil element in man's nature. It enfranchises cupidity and greed gives a charter to petty tyranny,… — C. E. M. Joad
- England totally disarmed and an easy prey to hostile forces! Can you think of anything more likely to excite cupidity and hostile… — Stanley Baldwin
- No community has ever yet passed beyond the initial phases in which its pugnacity and fanaticism enabled it to found a nation,… — George Bernard Shaw
- True it is, as society is instituted, marriage becomes somewhat of a lottery, for all its votaries are either the victims of… — Arthur Frederick Saunders
- Cupidity...takes created things for ends in themselves, which they are not. The will that seeks rest in creatures for their own sake… — Thomas Merton
- Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better… — C.S. Lewis
- I wish I was a despot that I might save the noble, the beautiful trees that are daily falling sacrifice to the… — Thomas Jefferson
- No, the secret is that there's no reward and we have to endure our characters and our natures as best we can,… — Sándor Márai
- Oh blind, oh ignorant, self-seeking cupidity whcih spurs as so in the short mortal life and steeps as through all eternity. — Dante Alighieri