There was no more good or evil in this world than we imagine there to be, either out of greed or out of innocence. Or sometimes madness..
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..
If you want money more than anything, you'll be bought and sold. If you have a greed for food, you'll be a loaf of bread. This is a subtle truth: Wha….
The best way to hate is the worst. 'Tis to find what the hated need, Never mind of what actual worth, And wipe that out of the earth. Let them die of….
I liked the place I came from. But a lot of what I liked about it was that I had come from there..
The more our hearts and minds are turned to assisting others less fortunate than we, the more we will avoid the spiritually cankering effects that re….
The Emperor himself amassed his great riches. The older he grew, the greater became his greed, his pitiable cupidity... he and his people took millio….
The silence of the world could not rein back it's greed. Not any longer. Not when it had virtually won..
Once you'd resolved to go, there was nothing to it at all..
I certainly understand that we're all trying to make a living, but I'm not thinking about that when I'm making it. And if that's your sole motivation….
Organized greed always defeats disorganized democracy..
Avarice is as destitute of what it has, as poverty of what it has not..
He who lives only for himself is truly dead to others..
The miser is as much in want of what he has as of what he has not..
We simply rob ourselves when we make presents to the dead..
I glory, more in the cunning purchase of my wealth than in the glad possession..
Ebola haunted Zaire because of corruption and political repression. The virus had no secret powers, nor was it unusually contagious. For centuries Eb….
The privileged have regularly invited their own destruction with their greed..
I don't call myself a writer..
I learn a lot; what I learn cannot be expressed in words..
We never get so near God as when we plead for others..