If you push your luck too hard, fortune's muscles might tear.
Greed is the fast-track to poverty.
(n.) An eager desire or longing; greediness; as, a greed of gain.
The birthplace of anarchy is the cemetery of freedom.
We go from one war to another; we go from one terrorist group to another and we go from one calamity to another, but there is a pattern there if you know where to look.It's amazing how when one war is...
[Conventional wisdom] very heavily tends to reflect the preferences and the interests of the elite.
Tyrants don't become a success.They become obsessed!
Those that much covet are with gain so fond,For what they have not, that which they possessThey scatter and unloose it from their bond,And so, by hoping more, they have but less;Or, gaining more, the...
Two hungry wolves let loose among sheep are not more harmful then a person craving after wealth and status is to his Deen (Religion).
Greed is taking more than you need to feed. Avarice is hoarding, and stockpiling stolen, rotten goods.
He had allowed the advertisers to multiply his wants; he had learned to equate happiness with possessions, and prosperity with money to spend in a shop.
Income from labor [in the United States] is about as unequally distributed as has ever been observed anywhere.
When avarice takes the lead in a state, it is commonly the forerunner of its fall.
If I were to sit down and count them, how many of my prayers were tainted by the seduction of greed? None, simply because nothing of that sort is a prayer.
The way of the consumerist culture is to spend so much energy chasing happiness that it has none left to be happy.
If you keep your eyes so fixed on heaven that you never look at the earth, you will stumble into hell.
The most chronic heart disease is caused by having greediness in your heart. Go for check ups regularly and learn how to swallow those lumpy pills of generousity. Be kind and be healthy
Some social ills are preserved by the common misbelief that things such as ignorance, greed, and stupidity do not have the stamina required to reach old age.
The one whose kashays, (inner anger, pride, deceit, greed) are gone is worthy of worship. The absence of inner intent of kashays is indeed Gnani!
She never forgets a slight, real or imagined. She takes caution for cowardice and dissent for defiance. And she is greedy. Greedy for power, for honour, for love.
Some people take what they need from the orchard, and other people pick the orchard clean."From - "The Mind Game Company - The Players
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