“But the need for justice is like ownership or love. Feeding it only makes it grow.”
Source: The Overstory
Covetousness Quotes
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Covetousness Quotes
Source: The Luminaries
Source: Selected Short Stories
“Our covetousness for miracles and wonders leads into self-deception”
“People would be happy to see you do better, but not better than them.”
Source: Wealth of Words
Source: The Use and Misuse of Children
“You don't know the true meaning of BEAUTY if you see it everywhere but in your own life.”
Source: Daddy's Little Girl: A Father's Prayer
Source: Freedom of Simplicity: Finding Harmony in a Complex World
Source: Ammonites And Leaping Fish: A Life In Time
Source: The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Volume I
“The whole people contracts the habits and tastes of the magistrate.”
Source: Democracy in America
“By covetousness, people will exploit you with deceptive words”
Source: City of God
“When you see injustice among the nations, you will find out that the root cause is covetousnes.”
Source: Insulted By Ungodliness: Raising a generation of the provoked in every nation
“Nothing is quite so attractive in our possession as it was when coveted”
“Newspapers provided a common culture of aspiration.”
Source: 1913: In Search of the World Before the Great War
“Fifties advertising was a dogmatic art, to the point of pretending to be a science.”
Source: Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus
Source: Morning and Evening, Based on the English Standard Version
Source: In His Image: 10 Ways God Calls Us to Reflect His Character
“Covetousness gives birth to violence, while violence gives birth to oppression.”
Source: The Mountain of Ignorance
“When you see injustice among the nations, you will find out that the root cause is covetousness.”
Source: The Mountain of Ignorance
Source: The Mountain of Ignorance
Source: The Silent Balance: A Collection of Waka Poetry
Source: Works, containing his plays and poems: to which is added a glossary
“Covetousness is the greatest of monsters, as well as the root of all evil.”
Source: Fruits of solitude ... New edition
“We covet what is guarded; the very care invokes the thief. Few love what they may have.”
“The soul of man is infinite in what it covets.”
Source: The works of Ben Jonson, with notes, and a biogr. memoir, by W. Gifford. With intr. and appendices by F. Cunningham
Source: The first four books of Milton's Paradise lost; with notes, by C.W. Connon
Source: Anthem
“Not to be covetous, is money; not to be a purchaser, is a revenue.”
“The covetous man pines in plenty, like Tantalus up to the chin in water, and yet thirsty.”
Source: The Sermons of Thomas Adams: The Shakespeare of Puritan Theologians
“The covetous person lives as if the world were made altogether for him, and not he for the world.”
Source: Discourses on Various Subjects and Occasions: Selected from the Complete English Edition. With a Sketch of His Life and Character
“Covetousness is ever attended with solicitude and anxiety.”
Source: Memoirs of the life and writings of Benjamin Franklin ...