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Last updated on December 20, 2024.
The only thing that stands between corporate greed and poverty is the union.
We're all basically made of the same stuff: generosity and selfishness, goodness and greed.
There is in man a specific lust for cruelty which infects even his passion of pity and makes it savage.
Greed has taken the whole universe, and nobody is worried about their soul.
One of the key problems of the business world is that greed has become culturally acceptable.
The almighty dollar and the lust for world wide fame, slowly killed tradition, and for that someone should hang.
Curst greed of gold, what crimes thy tyrant power has caused.
The tyranny imposed on the soul by anger, or fear, or lust, or pain, or envy, or desire, I generally call 'injustice.'
I offer you the remedy of Free Love as an antidote for enforced lust, and the world will have to take it before the disease can be cured.
Lust comes creeping through the night to feed on hearts of suburban wives who learned to pretend when they met their dreams end.
I project myself out through the glasses and across the street, a ghost in the morning sunlight, torn with disembodied lust.
With the plundered people transferring their energies into relaxed and receptive thoughts, degradation and lust for power produced art.
There are three things which the superior man guards against. In youth ... lust. When he is strong ... quarrelsomeness. When he is old ... covetousness.
But there's got to be an opening somewhere here in front of me. Through this maze of ugliness and greed.
We have assembled inside this ancient / and insane theatre / To propagate our lust for life / and flee the swarming wisdom / of the streets
Friendship, obligation and greed are not good enough reasons to write anything.
There are three things against which the wise man guards: lust when young, quarrels when strong, and covetousness when old.
...lust is only a sweet poison for the weakling, but for those who will with a lion's heart it is the reverently reserved wine of wines.
I think greed is healthy. You can be greedy and still feel good about yourself.
People's lives are forever controlled by two emotions: fear and greed.
Fear and greed are probably the worst emotions to have in connection with the purchase and sale of stocks.
To justify and extol human greed and egotism is to my mind not only immoral, but evil.
I am glad that 'Lust Stories' is coming on Netflix as opposed to the kind of commercial release it was going to get.
Some rule out of a lust for ruling; others, so as not to be ruled:Mto these it is merely the lesser of two evils.
Lust is weak desire. A woman without a good head on her shoulders is nothing but a piece of meat.
Aging only happens to people who lose their lust for getting better and disconnect from their natural base of curiosity.
For total greed, rapacity, heartlessness, and irresponsibility there is nothing to match a nation.
Spirituality for the most part is a mask worn by idleness, arrogance and greed.
Greed is at the bottom of most of the wrong-doing with which government has to deal.
The curse of the romantic is a greed for dreams, an intensity of expectation that, in the end, diminishes the reality.
Selfishness and greed, individual or national, cause most of our troubles.
Three great forces rule the world: stupidity, fear and greed.
An unforgettable tale of love, lust, faith, betrayal, and redemption. A powerful, mesmerizing suspense novel-a tour de force!
Through the machineries of greed, pettiness, and the abuse of power, love occurs.
Someone who wants to succeed has to overcome his own greed first
We have to knock down the barriers erected by greed, special interests, powerful forces.
It's not competition and greed that makes the world go around, it's cooperating and caring
Lust is a strong tower of mischief, and hath in it many defenders, as neediness, anger, paleness, discord, love, and longing.
The love of domination and an uncontrolled lust of arbitrary power have prevailed among all nations and perhaps in proportion to the degrees of civilization.
Lust is a pleasure bought with pains, a delight hatched with disquiet, a content passed with fear, and a sin finished with sorrow.
No one is born with greed, prejudice, bigotry, patriotism and hatred; these are all learned behavior patterns.
The role of government is to create responsible greed to keep boundaries around what people do.
Nothing makes us more vulnerable than loneliness, except greed.
Valuing knowledge above all else results in a lust for power, and that leads men into dark and empty places.
I think if the church put in half the time on covetousness that it does on lust, this would be a better world for all of us.
The soul whose bosom lust did never touch Is God's fair bride; and maiden's souls are such.
You can't take anything with you. So I don't understand this whole psychotic area of greed, I don't get it.
Lust hath these three companions: the first, blindness of understanding; the second, hardness of heart; the third, want of grace.
Nothing is so effective in keeping one young and full of lust as a discriminating palate thoroughly satisfied at least once a day
The Democratic Party needs to take a stand against corporate greed.
Though lust do masque in ne'er so strange disguise she's oft found witty, but is never wise.
Lust is the base of most physical ills, and like a tapeworm in the system, it feeds on our best energies and vitality.
Ignorance, poverty, and greed must disappear so that light can prevail in all places.
Nothing destroys one's respect in the hearts of others more than greed.
An enemy to whom you show kindness becomes your friend, excepting lust, the indulgence of which increases its enmity.
Democracy is the menopause of Western society, the Grand Climacteric of the body social. Fascism is its middle-aged lust.
The human spirit sublimates the impulses it thwarts; a healthy sex life mitigates the lust for other sports.
Capitalism: Nothing so mean could be right. Greed is the ugliest of the capital sins.
We all seem to be about aggression and greed. It's a massive pressure that affects us all.
Male aggression and lust are the energizing factors in culture. They are men's tools of survival in the pagan vastness of female nature.
