Idries Shah Quote

Be Fearful When Others Are Greedy and Greedy When Others Are Fearful

Live for your country, die to yourself; live for yourself, die to your country.

It is in the nature of man to want what he does not have. This modern concern for happiness seems a real testimony of its absence.

The clearest version of vision, backed by the purest grade of greed is a ripen file of failure.

Many obese people spend a significant amount of their energy on suppressing the urge to tell some of the people who are staring at them that they do not eat as much and as frequently as they seem to.

A compass calibrated by my greed is a rather shrewd way to legitimize my agenda. However, true north on a compass such as this is a straight line to the edge of a really big cliff.

I pretend to give gifts that people pretend to be gifts so that I can pretend that I gave something that actually cost me something. And what pretending or this sort gives me is the gift of a pretend...

DEATH is big business.Thank god for capitalism.

Cathy, don't look so defeated. She was only trying to put us downagain.Maybe nothing did work out right for her, but that doesn't mean we aredoomed. Let's go forth tomorrow with no great expectations...

War sells!