Crime Quote by Virgil Download Open image “Curst greed of gold, what crimes thy tyrant power has caused” — Virgil ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.6 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Crime Gold Greed Power Tyrants
“Cursed greed of gold, what crimes thy tyrant power has caused. -- Virgil” — Debby Grahl Copy Share Image
The possession of wealth leads almost inevitably to its abuse. It is the chief, if not the only, cause of evils which desolate this… — Jules Verne Copy Share Image
“Do you wish to know whether that day is coming? Watch money. Money is the barometer of a society’s virtue. When you see that… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The lust of gold succeeds the rage of conquest; The lust of gold, unfeeling and remorseless! The last corruption of degenerate man. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The possession of gold has ruined fewer men than the lack of it. What noble enterprises have been checked and what fine souls have… — Thomas Bailey Aldrich Copy Share Image
Gold flees the man who would force it to impossible earnings or who followeth the alluring advice of tricksters and schemers or who trusts… — The Richest Man In Babylon Copy Share Image
Commerce has set the mark of selfishness, the signet of its all-enslaving power, upon a shining ore, and called it gold: before whose image… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
“I. Gold cometh gladly and in increasing quantity to any man who will put by not less than one-tenth of his earngs to create… — George S. Clason Copy Share Image
Our defeat was always implicit in the victory of others; our wealth has always generated our poverty by nourishing the prosperity of others -… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Money-crimes have an abstract quality. History is laden with the victims of gold, but their remains are odourless. — Georges Bernanos Copy Share Image
We alone can devalue gold by not caring if it falls or rises in the marketplace. Wherever there is gold there is a chain,… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
Anything short of the discipline and honesty of a true gold coin standard will inevitably self-destruct, consuming our wealth and liberties, and nurturing the… — Lawrence Reed Copy Share Image
“Facilis descensus Averni: noctes atque dies patet atri ianua Ditis; sed revocare gradium superasque evadere ad auras. hoc opus, hic labor est.” — Virgil Copy Share Image
The descent to the infernal regions is easy enough, but to retrace one's steps, and reach the air above, there's the rub. — Virgil Copy Share Image
“..and why the winter suns so rush to bathe themselves in the sea and what slows down the nights to a long lingering crawl...” — Virgil Copy Share Image
“forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit. and perhaps it will be pleasing to have remembered these things one day” — Virgil Copy Share Image
“Crime and punishment can be summed up in two classifications: there are bad people and there are people who get into bad situations. The… — Johnnie Dent Jr Copy Share Image
With 'Pretty Girls,' I saw the opportunity to talk not just about crime but what crime leaves behind. — Karin Slaughter Copy Share Image
“The jailers, the Court, everyone in that building – it wasn’t about justice; it was about obedience and intimidation…about maintaining order. Fear accomplished that… — Jay Allan Copy Share Image
Taking notes while watching Forensic Files and Snapped. I don't want to make the same mistakes the criminals do! ;) — Nishan Panwar Copy Share Image
A man could be a lover and defender of the wilderness without ever in his lifetime leaving the boundaries of asphalt, powerlines, and right-angled… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Nations sometimes flourish by denying the crimes that brought them into being. Only when the original invasion, occupation, extermination or usurpation has been safely… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
The danger that may really threaten (crime fiction) is that soon there will be more writers than readers — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
“a crime to fell a tree and light it on fire, where coals of hardened shit warmed and stunk up homes,” — Hugh Howey Copy Share Image
A great read; an exciting, frightening account of organized crime today. But like all important works of nonfiction, it goes further… This book is… — Le Ly Hayslip Copy Share Image
If it comes to a question of law, the charges they brought against me - the Espionage Act - is called the quintessential political… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
