Envy And Greed Quotes

• Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.

  Josh Billings

  Relationship, Jealousy, Hate

  Josh Billings (1874). “Everybody's Friend, Or Josh Billing's Encyclopedia and Proverbial Philosophy of Wit and Humor”, p.304

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• Envy and greed starve on a steady diet of thanksgiving.

  Billy Graham

  Thanksgiving, Thankful, Envy

  FaceBook post by Billy Graham from Oct 12, 2011

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• Greed, envy, sloth, pride and gluttony: these are not vices anymore. No, these are marketing tools. Lust is our way of life. Envy is just a nudge towards another sale. Even in our relationships we consume each other, each of us looking for what we can get out of the other. Our appetites are often satisfied at the expense of those around us. In a dog-eat-dog world we lose part of our humanity.

  Jon Foreman

  Dog, Pride, Nudge Nudge

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• Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy.

  Heraclitus

  Inspirational, Happiness, Jealousy

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• The geometry of judgment is a circle. Hate is a snake that turns to consume itself from the tail, a circle that diminishes to a point, then to nothing. Pride is such a snake, and envy, and greed. Love, however, is a hoop, a wheel, that rolls on forever. We are rescued by those whom we have rescued. The saved become the saviors of their saviors.

  Dean Koontz

  Hate, Pride, Snakes

  Dean Koontz (2007). “The Darkest Evening of the Year: A Novel”, p.107, Bantam

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• No thank you to all the bustas, cowards, and FAKE HOMIES who showed me the depths of jealousy, envy and greed.

  Tupac Shakur

  Thug, Envy, Fake

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• As to the Seven Deadly Sins, I deplore Pride, Wrath, Lust, Envy and Greed. Gluttony and Sloth I pretty much plan my day around.

  Robert Breault

  Funny, Humorous, Pride

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• In the past, traditional art was based on making manifest what is enduring in man, like love, jealousy, hatred, envy, and greed... . Today art has to look again at these unchanging qualities, because society is no longer unchanging. It is up to art today to show us what has become of these unchanging qualities in a world which is moving and changing.

  Tawfiq al-Hakim

  Art, Moving, Past

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• The will to power, as the modern age from Hobbes to Nietzsche understood it, far from being a characteristic of the strong, is, like envy and greed, among the vices of the weak, and possibly even their most dangerous one. Power corrupts indeed when the weak band together in order to ruin the strong, but not before.

  Hannah Arendt

  Strong, Order, Envy

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