Lust And Greed Quotes

• Do not follow vain desires; for verily he who prospers is preserved from lust, greed and anger.

  Abu Bakr

  Anger, Greed, Lust

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• Lust and greed are more gullible than innocence.

  Mason Cooley

  Greed, Lust, Literature

  "City Aphorisms, Eighth Selection". Book by Mason Cooley, 1991.

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• Declare your jihad on thirteen enemies you cannot see - Egoism, Arrogance, Conceit, Selfishness, Greed, Lust, Intolerance, Anger, Lying, Cheating, Gossiping and Slandering. If you can master and destroy them, then will be ready to fight the enemy you can see.

  Al-Ghazali

  Cheating, Lying, Islamic

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• The Bible and several other self help or enlightenment books cite the Seven Deadly Sins. They are: pride, greed, lust, envy, wrath, sloth, and gluttony. That pretty much covers everything that we do, that is sinful... or fun for that matter.

  Dave Mustaine

  Fun, Book, Pride

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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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• The lust of avarice as so totally seized upon mankind that their wealth seems rather to possess them than they possess their wealth.

  Pliny the Elder

  Lust, Avarice Greed, Wealth

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• But I saw the little-Ant men as they ran
  Carrying the world's weight of the world's filth
  And the filth in the heart of Man--
  Compressed till those lusts and greeds had a greater heat
  than that of the Sun.

  Edith Sitwell

  Heart, Men, Evil

  Dame Edith Sitwell (1952). “Selected Poems”

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• Animals are neither gods nor fiends, but men in their way without the lust and greed of man.

  Robert E. Howard

  Animal, Men, Greed

  Robert E. Howard (2006). “Kull: Exile of Atlantis”, p.27, Del Rey

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• The greatest need in the world is the transformation of human nature. We need a new heart that will not have lust and greed and hate in it. We need a heart filled with love and peace and joy, and that is why Jesus came into the world.

  Billy Graham

  Jesus, Hate, Heart

  Billy Graham, Franklin Graham, Donna Lee Toney (2011). “Billy Graham in Quotes”, p.67, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• There are many winds full of anger, and lust and greed. They move the rubbish around, but the solid mountain of our true nature stays where it's always been.

  Rumi

  Integrity, Moving, Wind

  Jelaluddin Rumi (2000). “Feeling the Shoulder of the Lion: Poetry and Teaching Stories of Rumi”, p.91, Shambhala Publications

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• Urges ... every man has urges. But the true measure of man is to admit them, to learn to control them. The Shield used to refer to themselves as the most dominant force in our universe. But that ain't the way I remember it. They fell victim to the faults of men. Their lust and greed and valor for glory, it led them right down in the pit, where they belong. Tonight, they'll burn for it. For I am no man. I am reborn. Our bond can never be broken, and our urges can never be satisfied.

  Bray Wyatt

  Men, Broken, Greed

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• The lusts and greeds of the body scandalize the Soul; but it has to come to heel.

  Logan Pearsall Smith

  Greed, Soul, Lust

  Logan Pearsall Smith (1931). “Afterthoughts”

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• How shrunk, how dwindled, in our times Creation's mighty seed - For Man has broke the Fellowship With murder, lust, and greed.

  Margaret Atwood

  Men, Greed, Lust

  Margaret Atwood (2009). “The Year of the Flood”, p.21, Anchor

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• Sacrifice, so that you may be saved. You have to sacrifice, not a bleating sheep or a horse or a cow, but your animality, the bestial lust and greed, hate and malice. Sacrifice these and you earn the heaven of unflinching peace.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Horse, Hate, Sacrifice

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