Greed Quote by Walter Scott Download Open image ““...[G]old is their god, and for riches will they pawn their lives as well as their lands.”” — Walter Scott ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Greed Idolatry Money
“Devise some creed, and live it, beyond theirs, Or I shall think you but their spendthrift heirs.” — Edmund Blunden Copy Share Image
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“...the old are destroying the young by them to die in distant fields, and in response the young are destroying themselves.” — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“When duty and religion are really destroyed, it will be by the rich.” — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“they think that you bear old age more [e] easily not because of the way you live but because you’re wealthy, for the wealthy,… — Plato Copy Share Image
“The good men of every age are those who go to the roots of the old thoughts and bear fruit with them.” — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Finding god in the poor is easy. Divinity doesn’t dwell in the rich. It can’t stand them.” — Myriam Gurba Copy Share Image
“On their way to freedom, some people find riches, some people find death.” — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
“I am old as the ages and young as the dawn. Otherworldly beings cannot be bribed.” — Alex Flinn Copy Share Image
“God and love never grow old. Their being is and remains one that is coming.” — Eberhard Jüngel Copy Share Image
“there is no reason to pity old people. Instead, young people should envy them. It is true that the old have no opportunities, no… — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
“Of all the train, none escaped except Wamba, who showed upon the occasion much more courage than those who pretended to greater sense.” — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
Where shall the lover rest, Whom the fates sever From his true maiden's breast, Parted for ever? Where, through groves deep and high, Sounds… — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
O! many a shaft, at random sent, Finds mark the archer little meant! And many a word, at random spoken, May soothe or wound… — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
And better had they ne'er been born, Who read to doubt, or read to scorn. — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
Where is the coward that would not dare to fight for such a land as Scotland? — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
Loud o'er my head though awful thunders roll, And vivid lightnings flash from pole to pole, Yet 'tis Thy voice, my God, that bids… — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
“but he had only received that sort of answer usually given by those who are more obstinate in following their own course, than strong… — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
“Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, and men below, and the saints above, for love is heaven, and heaven is love. ” — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
Fortune may raise up or abuse the ordinary mortal, but the sage and the soldier should have minds beyond her control. — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
In peace, Love tunes the shepherd's reed; In war, he mounts the warrior's steed; In halls, in gay attire is seen; In hamlets, dances… — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
Stephanie could see the greed seep into the watery eyes of her father’s other brother, a horrible little man called Fergus, as he nodded… — Derek Landy Copy Share Image
“Where there are kashays (anger-pride-deceit-greed), there is worldly life. As long as anger-pride-deceit-greed exist; one is a sansaari [living a worldly life] regardless of… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“THE UNFORGIVEN Tell me if you've ever had to deal with these kinds of people: The kind who take and don't give. The kind… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
The law is the collective organization of the individual's right to lawful defense of his life, liberty and property. When it is used for… — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
“The fact that they viewed their wealth as a result of their own hands, without any honor other than lip service being given to… — Lee Goff Copy Share Image
“Be fearful when others are greedy, and be greedy when others are fearful.” — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
avarice breeds envy, a worm that is always gnawing, letting the avaricious enjoy neither their own nor anyone else's good. — St. Catherine of Siena Copy Share Image
“In a similar way, The Art of War pinpoints anger and greed as fundamental causes of defeat.” — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
Who does not know that kings and rulers sprang from men who were ignorant of God, who assumed because of blind greed and intolerable… — Pope Gregory VII Copy Share Image
''And one day when all is gone and mankind is lost, all he leaves is the desert.'' ''For man is his own demise the… — Jeremy Limn Copy Share Image
“Wisdom teaches us that our real enemies are never other living beings. They are ignorance and its minions, including greed, hatred, anger, pride, and… — Guy Newland Copy Share Image
“Suckers think that you cure greed with money, addiction with substances, expert problems with experts, banking with bankers, economics with economists, and debt crises… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image