Quotes Tagged With :covetousness

The whole people contracts the habits and tastes of the magistrate.

When you see injustice among the nations, you will find out that the root cause is covetousness.

Even envy, wants to even the score.

But could he endure it, that other men knew her in a way that he, Staines, did not? He did not know.

The architect and the father of war are covetousness of the leaders and of different interest groups....

Covetousness gives birth to violence, while violence gives birth to oppression.

Fifties advertising was a dogmatic art, to the point of pretending to be a science.

When consent takes the form of seeking to possess the things we wish, this is called desire. When consent....

Desire is insatiable as death, but He who fills all in all can fill it. The capacity of our wishes who....

Our covetousness for miracles and wonders leads into self-deception