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Last updated on December 20, 2024.
Lust is a captivity of the reason and an enraging of the passions. It hinders business and distracts counsel. It sins against the body and weakens the soul.
You want Paradise, you gotta build it on war, on blood, on envy and naked greed.
Nothing makes us more vulnerable than loneliness except greed.
Some wars have been due to the lust of rulers for power and glory, or to revenge to wipe out the humiliation of a former defeat.
If everybody's behavior can be explained by simple stupidity and greed, there's no point in assuming a conspiracy.
I think there's just too much greed in the world today [and] that's why we have problems.
In my experience lust only ever leads to misery. All that suspicion and jealousy and anguish it unleashes. I don't want those things in my life.
The only engine big enough to impact Mother Nature is Father Greed.
Man is oftentimes weak-minded enough to be caught in the snare of greed and honeyed words.
There are 6 reasons that a person does anything: Love, faith, greed, boredom, fear... revenge.
Time! Joyless emblem of the greed of millions, robber of the best which earth can give.
Spinning yarns is a protection against the nuttiness... the greed, the hate all around us.
What we're seeing now is that greed is still alive and kicking, and banks are bigger than ever.
Clarity and perseverance are difficult in American society because the basis of capitalism is greed and dissatisfaction.
When I see people scratching and clawing towards ambition and greed, I wonder why they are doing it and for what.
If there was a university degree for greed, you cunts would all get first-class honours.
Progressives regard government as the white knight that protects the public from the greed of capitalists. If only.
From the Zen view all beings are in the grip of the three poisons, greed, anger and delusion (ignorance).
Noir has always shown that greed and chaos are as close as the company we work for or the politicians we vote for.
What can defeat greed, technological superiority, and legal lawlessness ... is discipline, consciousness, and unity.
Lust is the sin that gets me excited. Luckily, because I'm married, I also get really good jewelry out of it.
To get rid of greed, you should try to do some sort of a collective social work.
If we do not cling to riches, selfishness or greed - then I believe we are getting closer to God.
There is no force more potent in the modern world than stupidity fueled by greed.
... not doing what we love in the name of greed is very poor management of our lives.
I just want people to see what I deem as a war for no reason, but only for greed.
the description of lust was simple: two people learn they're compatible , attraction grows, and the ancient instinct to preserve the species kicks in.
When you cast away all your greed and fixation in adversity, you can find unexpected strength.
God is in heaven, and we all want what's his. But power and greed and corruptible seed seem to be all that there is.
All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.
I fear just one thing : Money! Greed was what motivated Judas to sell Jesus
There are sufficient resources on this planet to answer the needs of all, but not enough to satisfy everyone's greed.
New York City is a great monument to the power of money and greed... a race for rent.
There are many who lust for the simple answers of doctrine or decree. They are on the left and right. They are not confined to a single part of the society. They are terrorists of the mind.
Leadership is a privilege to better the lives of others. It is not an opportunity to satisfy personal greed.
Power, greed, and perhaps more than anything, ego, are powerful emotions and motivators.
Greed often finds more pleasure in taking from others than in giving to itself.
Foolish people are never harmless. Stupidity accounts for as many crimes as anger and greed.
Greed has driven the world crazy. And I think I'm lucky that I have a place over here that I can call home.
Sufficient to say, greed is a deadly deed. You shall not covet your neighbor's goods.
As consumers we are incredibly discerning, we sense where has been great care in the design, and when there is cynicism and greed.
Fifa cannot sit by and see greed rule the football world. Nor shall we.
There is a greed case for diversity. Diverse perspectives bring us into markets we didn't know existed.
Only those blinded by greed would refuse to let a friend make a copy.
Altruism is a fine motive, but if you want results, greed works much better.
Share prices follow the theorem: hope divided by fear minus greed.
My reasons for declaring a sexual preference had to do less with the pursuit of personal freedom than with the lust for pure shock value.
The saving of labour of the individual should be the object and honest humanitarian considerations, and not greed, the motive.
There are sufficient resources in the world for the needs of everybody, but not enough for the greed of even a significant minority.
Corporate greed in New York won. It suffocated anything interesting out of the city.
I love the competitive part of stocks. A lot of fear and greed, that's all it is. All I see is green and red.
Unrestrained greed means the ruin of the great woods and the drying up of the sources of the rivers.
It is a mistake, that a lust for power is the mark of a great mind; for even the weakest have been captivated by it; and for minds of the highest order, it has no charms.
Privacy is not for sale, and human rights should not be compromised out of fear or greed.
Republicans stand for raw, unbridled evil and greed and ignorance smothered in balloons and ribbons.
But men are so full of greed today, they'll sell anything for a little piece of money.
America needs young people to be inspired to choose sacrifice over greed.
The discovery of America was the occasion of the greatest outburst of cruelty and reckless greed known in history.
Greed is a fat demon with a small mouth and whatever you feed it is never enough.
Someone reminded me I once said, 'Greed is good.' Now it seems it's legal.
