Covetousness Quotes - Page 4

• advertising confuses values ... By appealing either to fear, or to vanity, or to covetousness, it very skillfully insinuates false values.

  Puente de Ann

  Vanity, Advertising, Values

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• Bare-faced covetousness was the moving spirit of civilization from its first dawn to the present day; wealth, and again wealth, and for the third time wealth; wealth, not of society, but of the puny individual, was its only and final aim.

  Friedrich Engels

  Moving, Civilization, Dawn

  Friedrich Engels (1902). “The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State”

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• Other passions have objects to flatter them, and seem to content and satisfy them for a while; there is power in ambition, pleasure in luxury, and pelf in covetousness; but envy can gain nothing but vexation.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Passion, Ambition, Luxury

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• There are three things to beware of through life: when a man is young, let him beware of his appetites; when he is middle-aged, of his passions; and when old, of covetousness, especially.

  Confucius

  Life, Passion, Men

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• Saber distinguir la agitación surgida de la codicia, de la agitación surgida de los principios, combatir la una y ayudar a la otra, en esto reside el genio y el poder de los grandes líderes revolucionarios.

  Victor Hugo

  Lying, Fighting, Revolutionary Leaders

  Victor Hugo (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Victor Hugo (Illustrated)”, p.6978, Delphi Classics

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• Nothing lies on our hands with such uneasiness as time. Wretched and thoughtless creatures! In the only place where covetousness were a virtue we turn prodigals.

  Joseph Addison

  Time, Lying, Hands

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• Who covets more is evermore a slave.

  Robert Herrick

  Greed, Slave, Evermore

  Robert Herrick, Tom Cain, Ruth Connolly (2013). "The Complete Poetry of Robert Herrick", p.202, Oxford University Press.

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• Todo el intento de avanzar en el tipo de sociedad de consumo que depende para su crecimiento de la incesante estimulación de la codicia ilimitada entre los ricos, mientras que la mayoría pobre se pudre en su pobreza, esto es sin duda algo contra lo que un cristiano debe ser inconformista.

  Lesslie Newbigin

  Cristiano, Crecimiento, Mayoría

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• Pity that gold should always bring with it the canker - covetousness.

  Fanny Fern

  Envy, Gold, Pity

  FANNY FERN (1857). “FRESH LEAVES”, p.19

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• The covetous map explores the whole world in pursuit of a subsistence, and fate is close at his heels.

  Saadi

  Fate, World, Maps

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• The case of the Baconians is not won until it has been proved that the substitution of covetousness for wantlessness, or an ascending spiral of desires for a stable requirement of necessities, leads to a happier condition.

  Richard M. Weaver

  Desire, Ascending, Requirements

  Richard M. Weaver (2013). “Ideas Have Consequences: Expanded Edition”, p.13, University of Chicago Press

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• The inferior creatures groan under your cruelties. You hunt them for your pleasure, and overwork them for your covetousness, and kill them for your gluttony, and set them to fight one with another till they die, and count it a sport and a pleasure to behold them worry one another.

  Tom Tryon

  Sports, Fighting, Worry

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• I love Prada. Not so much the clothes, which are for malnourished thirteen-year-olds, but I covet, with covety covetousness, the shoes and handbags. Like, I LOVE them. If I was given a choice between world peace and a Prada handbag, I'd dither. (I'm not proud of this, I'm only saying.)

  Marian Keyes

  Years, Shoes, Clothes

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• The Devil endeavours by every means to keep men in error, in the enticement of the passions, in darkness of mind and heart; in pride, avarice, covetousness, envy, hatred, wicked impatience and irritation; in evil despondence, in the abominations of fornication, adultery, theft, false-witness, blasphemy, negligence, slothfulness, and sluggishness.

  Juan de Kronstadt

  Passion, Heart, Mean

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• The only beneficiaries of income taxation are the politicians, for it not only gives them the means by which they can increase their emoluments, but it also enables them to improve their importance. The have-nots who support the politicians in the demand for income taxation do so only because they hate the haves; . . . the sum of all the arguments for income taxation comes to political ambition and the sin of covetousness.

  Frank Chodorov

  Hate, Ambition, Mean

  "The Income Tax: Root of All Evil". Book by Frank Chodorov, New York: NY, Devin-Adair Company, p. 27, 1954.

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• Frugality is good if liberality be joined with it. The first is leaving off superfluous expenses; the last is bestowing them to the benefit of others that need. The first without the last begets covetousness; the last without the first begets prodigality.

  William Penn

  Leaving, Needs, Benefits

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• Luxury either comes of riches or makes them necessary; it corrupts at once rich and poor, the rich by possession and the poor by covetousness.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Luxury, Riches, Poor

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau, G. D. H. Cole (2003). “On the Social Contract”, p.45, Courier Corporation

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• There are three things against which the wise man guards: lust when young, quarrels when strong, and covetousness when old.

  Confucius

  Wise, Strong, Men

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• Because of this basin of repentance and knowledge of God, which has been ordained for the transgression of God's people, as Isaiah cries, we have believed, and we testify that the very baptism which he announced is alone able to purify those who have repented. It is the water of life. But the cisterns which you have dug for yourselves are broken and of no benefit to you. For what is the use of a baptism which cleanses the flesh and body alone? Baptize the soul from wrath and from covetousness, from envy, and from hatred, and, lo, the body is pure.

  Justino Mártir

  Water Of Life, Wrath, Broken

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• While it is undeniable that many have been driven to immorality and crime by the need to survive, it is equally evident that the possession of a significant surplus of material goods has never been a guarantee against covetousness, rapacity and the infinite variety of vice and pain which spring from such passions. Indeed, it could be argued that the unrelenting compulsion of those who already have much to acquire even more has generated greater injustice, immorality and wretchedness than the cumulative effect of the struggles of the severely underprivileged to better their lot.

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  Pain, Spring, Struggle

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• It was left for the present age to endow Covetousness with glamour on a big scale, and to give it a title which it could carry like a flag. It occurred to somebody to call it Enterprise. From the moment of that happy inspiration, Covetousness has gone forward and never looked back.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Business, Inspiration, Giving

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• El carácter de codicia, es lo que un hombre generalmente adquiere más por alguna mezquindad o mala gracia en cosas pequeñas e insignificantes, que en gastos de alguna consecuencia.

  Alexander Pope

  Character, Men, Grace

  Alexander Pope, William Roscoe (1824). “The Works of Alexander Pope: Esq. with Notes and Illustrations by Himself and Others. To which are Added, a New Life of the Author, an Estimate of His Poetical Character and Writings, and Occasional Remarks”, p.318

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• Socialism violates at least three of the Ten Commandments: It turns government into God, it legalizes thievery and it elevates covetousness. Discussions of income inequality, after all, aren't about prosperity but about petty spite. Why should you care how much money I make, so long as you are happy?

  Ben Shapiro

  Government, Long, Care

  "SHAPIRO: Why Socialism Is on the Rise". www.truthrevolt.org. January 8, 2014.

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• El líder religioso es el más indigno de confianza de los líderes; en ninguna otra posición tenemos tantas oportunidades para el orgullo, la codicia y la lujuria, y con tantos disfraces excelentes para evitar que tal innobleza sea descubierta y llamada a rendir cuentas.

  Eugene H. Peterson

  Religión, Orgullo, Oportunidad

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• El lujo... corrompe a la vez a ricos y pobres, a los ricos por la posesión y a los pobres por la codicia.

  Henri Rousseau

  Luxury, Prosperity, Rich

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