Lusting for Quotes about Greed...
Barry Fetter
> to whomsoever it may interest: i would like to collect qoutes on
>subjects 'GREED' , and also "LUST FOR POWER" any and all help will be
>much appreciated. Mucho Gracias!
491 Lust of power is the most flagrant of all passions.
Tacitus (55-117 A.D.)
523 The avaricious man is like the barren sandy ground of the
desert which sucks in all the rain and dew with greediness,
but yields no fruitful herbs or plants for the benefit of
others.
Zeno (B.C. 335?-264)
546 Form no covetous desire, so that the demon of greediness
may not deceive thee, and the treasure of the world may
not be tasteless to thee.
Zoroaster (B.C. 628?-551?)
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Paul Malin
Fetter) wrote:
> "P. K. NICHOLSON" <pknic...@gtwn.net> wrote:
>
> > to whomsoever it may interest: i would like to collect qoutes on
> >subjects 'GREED' , and also "LUST FOR POWER" any and all help will be
> >much appreciated. Mucho Gracias!
Radix malorum est cupiditas. (Love of money is the root of all evil)
Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales (but don't ask me which one)
Paul M.
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Paul Malin
Thanks, Ben. High school was too long ago (never thought I'd say that).
Frank Lynch
There are two ways of interpreting that last comment: 1) you never thought you'd
age 2) high school was such an unpleasant experience (an understandable sentiment,
I might add), that you never felt there would be enough distance between the
present and the past...
Frank Lynch
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Ed C
>
A couple from Mark Twain:
A dollar picked up on the road is more satisfying than the ninety-nine
which you had to work for...(At the Shrine of St. Wagner)
Make money and the whole world will conspire to call you a gentleman.
Let us not be too particular: it is better to have second hand diamonds
than none at all. (Following the Equator)
Ed :)
Jo Ann Malina
:
: > to whomsoever it may interest: i would like to collect qoutes on
: >subjects 'GREED' , and also "LUST FOR POWER" any and all help will be
: >much appreciated. Mucho Gracias!
"Suppose everybody cared enough, everybody shared enough, wouldn't
everybody have enough? There is enough in the world for everyone's
need, but not enough for everyone's greed."
Frank Buckman, Remaking the World (1947)
Before I get any more email ranting about my "Marxist" posts, here's
another quote by the same guy (who I'd never heard of before finding
the above under "greed" in the Oxford Dictionary of Modern Quotations):
"I thank heaven for a man like Adolf Hitler, who built a front line of
defence against the anti-Christ of Communism."
New York World-Telegram, 26 Aug 1936
Wonder if Unka Frank changed his mind about 'Dolf later? Anyway, it
makes it unlikely he was a "Marxist."
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"The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it."
-- Henry David Thoreau