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Last updated on December 20, 2024.
Make Money a CENTRAL priority. This has nothing to do with greed and consumption and everything to do with life force and power.
Innovations, instantly followed by a demented lust for them, now arrive with dizzying speed, not just daily, but in one-hour delivery slots.
Only the ego can fear, experience hate, lust and jealousy. Humility experiences none of these things - it merges into the transcendental awareness of perfection.
At tea time, all the noise, greed and aggressiveness of the '80s can be drowned out. For 45 minutes, anyway.
The lust of the flesh directs these desires [of personal union], however, to satisfaction of the body, often at the cost of a real and full communion of persons.
I think we need to take on the greed of the billionaire class, a disastrous campaign finance system.
Greed can't again lead the way. We've taken that route before with terrible consequences for this nation and its people.
Men are most apt to believe what they least understand; and through the lust of human wit obscure things are more easily credited.
The everyday kindness of the back roads more than makes up for the acts of greed in the headlines.
It's sundown on the union
And what's made in the USA
Sure was a good idea
'Til greed got in the way.
Ideology that believes government is bad, and that public institutions and places are not valuable, is as destructive as corporate greed.
Lust was a positive high-tension cable, plugged into my core, activating a near-epileptic seizure of conviction that this was the one thing I had to do in life.
Liability limit has become a symbol of corporate greed in passing the risk of disaster to the U.S. government and U.S. citizens.
Driving forward is the chief characteristic of western man since the Sumerians. His dread triad of vices is property-holding, voraciousness, and lust.
We can't allow any war for imperialism or greed to be fought in our names. This is what we need to keep fighting for.
My good hoe as it bites the ground revenges my wrongs, and I have less lust to bite my enemies. In the smoothing the rough hillocks, I smooth my temper.
Wall Street is broken for sure because it succumbed to greed and corruption and pure speculation with no values.
There are things about some professional athletes that I cannot stand-the pretense, the egos, the pomposity, the greed.
How could you do nothing to him, if you fought so hard?” she asked. “I’m lust and he’s wrath!” he yelled. “I’m a lover, he’s a fighter!” Virtue - A Fairy Tale
The rabble also vent their rage in words.
[Ger., Es macht das Volk sich auch mit Worten Lust.]
One is never wholly conscious of the greed hidden in one's heart until one hears the sweet sound of silver.
I'd call it love if love didn't take so many years but lust too is a jewel.
My passion for Sarah had killed simple lust forever. Never again would I be able to enjoy a woman without love.
All the seven deadly sins are peccadilloes but without three of them, Pride, Lust, and Sloth, poetry might never have been born.
We have to figure this out, Jackson, so leash the lust.” His chin went up as he stared down at her. “Woman, you ask the impossible.” “Do it anyway!
As the nation at last confronts global warming, it is no time for denial, greed, cynicism or pessimism.
It was not curiosity that killed the goose who laid the golden egg, but an insatiable greed that devoured common sense.
Anyone, then, who desires to live chastely in Christ Jesus, must flee not only the mouse of lust, but even from its very scent.
Where you find the attraction for lust and wealth considerably diminished, to whatever creed he may belong, know that his inner spirit is awakening.
If we do not know ourselves to be full of pride, ambition, lust, weakness, misery, and injustice, we are indeed blind. And if, knowing this, we do not desire deliverance, what can we say of a man...?
If you really think that ambition, power, lust, desire are not as applicable in the media as in politics or on Wall Street or anywhere else, you're deluding yourself.
I bought abandon dearAnd sold all piety for pleasure.My own free spirit I have followed,And never will I give up lust.
If you don't work yourself up into a fever of greed and covetousness in an art museum, you're just not doing the job.
The modern Left is not driven by fairness. It is guided by an ideology of greed and envy. Those are vices, not virtues.
The most violent appetites in all creatures are lust and hunger; the first is a perpetual call upon them to propagate their kind, the latter to preserve themselves.
Medieval alchemists, despite their lust for gold, considered mercury the most potent and poetic substance in the universe. As a child, I would have agreed with them.
I believe the vulpine greed of the corporate world is cut from the very same cloth as the tyrant of history.
Calm self-confidence is as far from conceit as the desire to earn a decent living is remote from greed.
Elevation of today's generation, if I can make them listen. Prisons ain't what we need, no longer stuck in greed.
Jesus reserved his hardest words for the hidden sins of hypocrisy, pride, greed and legalism.
I write flawed characters. Ones that do not always make the best decisions and are driven by ambition or lust. They are not black or white, they are in the large space that exists between.
You think it horrible that lust and rage Should dance attention upon my old age; They were not such a plague when I was young; What else have I to spur me into song?
Blessed be they as virtuous, who when they feel their virile members swollen with lust, visit a brothel rather than grind at some husband's private mill.
...people of old deemed freedom from greed precious, and this is how they got beyond the world.
Our need to knock celebrities is...Twisted: it's deep in the mid-brain below the survival instinct. That lust to see a downfall. It's animalistic.
The prison of lust is just that very one of which the soul shuts the doors upon herself; for each act of indulgence is the shooting of a fresh bolt.
What the advertisers are trying to do by eliminating residuals is the most appalling form of greed that I cry thinking about it.
Impatience is not the least of your faults, Malik, it is a kind of greed and someday it may see you undone.
No thank you to all the bustas, cowards, and FAKE HOMIES who showed me the depths of jealousy, envy and greed.
If you lust after someone and have an absurd and overwhelming need to protect them, then the best way to deal with the situation is to marry the person.
Avarice has ruined more men than prodigality, and the blindest thoughtlessness of expenditure has not destroyed so many fortunes as the calculating but insatiable lust of accumulation.
As long as greed, stupidity and cowardice remain a part of the human condition, there will be a constituency for Democrats.
In order to stave off covetouness, greed, and spite, citizens world over must be educated.
Craving for power is not a vice of the body, consequently it knows none of the limitations imposed by a tired or satiated physiology upon gluttony, intemperance and lust
I believe in lust at first sight; I don't know about love. For me, I think it takes more than a glance. But who knows? Maybe it'll happen.
The silence of the world could not rein back it's greed. Not any longer. Not when it had virtually won.
My heart was simultaneously broken and filled with lust, I was exhausted, and I loved every minute of it. It was strange and elating to find myself for once the weaker.
When he has the power to see things detached from self-interest and from the insistent claims of the lust of the senses, then alone can he have the true vision of the beauty that is everywhere.
There were rules among friends, commandments, really, and the most important one was Thou Shalt Not Lust After Thy Friend's Sister.
...unless the exchange be in love and kindly justice, it will but lead some to greed and others to hunger.
