Day and night - ruthlessly apply key lessons of mankind such as leaving greed, fear and lust to improve the efficiency
V.V. RaoWhoever that came up with the idea of people having to have 'a dream' sure knew how to keep these creatures called human beings preoccupied.
Mokokoma MokhonoanaStichwörter: ambition dream consumerism greed materialism preoccupation
In some cases, people with a body (whose size) they did not long for are victims of having a bank balance (whose size) they longed for.
Mokokoma MokhonoanaStichwörter: money greed body weight overweight overeating bank-balance glutony
We had made the error of staying small – and there is no more unforgivable crime in America.
Pat ConroyStichwörter: contentment ambition greed materialism
Generally, people need less than a quarter of what they want.
Mokokoma MokhonoanaStichwörter: consumerism greed materialism wants needs glutony
The fact that they viewed their wealth as a result of their own hands, without any honor other than lip service being given to the god that had blessed them, gave perfect openings to the liars slithering up their legs.
Lee GoffStichwörter: money god preachers greed tithing
I am surrounded by priests who repeat incessantly that their kingdom is not of this world, and yet they lay hands on everything they can get.
Napoléon BonaparteStichwörter: superstition greed hypocrites priests hypocritical
Why me?” I secreted into her ear.
“You were the only one I saw,” she whispered back, making my heart burst.
Stichwörter: greed cricket-hunt eugie spencer-blackwell
Do you want to know the cause of war? It is capitalism, greed, the dirty hunger for dollars. Take away the capitalist, and you will sweep war from the earth.
Henry FordStichwörter: war capitalism corruption greed
Or can it be thought that they who heap up an useless mass of wealth, not for any use that it is to bring them, but merely to please themselves with the contemplation of it, enjoy any true pleasure in it? The delight they find is only a false shadow of joy. Those are no better whose error is somewhat different from the former, and who hide it, out of their fear of losing it; for what other name can fit the hiding it in the earth, or rather the restoring to it again, it being thus cut off from being useful, either to its owner or to the rest of mankind? And yet the owner having hid it carefully, is glad, because he thinks he is now sure of it. It if should be stole, the owner, though he might live perhaps ten years after the theft, of which he knew nothing, would find no difference between his having or losing it; for both ways it was equally useless to him.
Thomas MoreStichwörter: fear money rich wealth greed
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