When you see injustice among the nations, you will find out that the root cause is covetousnes.

~ Sunday Adelaja

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Greed is a contagious mental illness without which civilization as we know it would not have been possible.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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Covetousness gives birth to violence, while violence gives birth to oppression.

~ Sunday Adelaja

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When you see injustice among the nations, you will find out that the root cause is covetousness.

~ Sunday Adelaja

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The architect and the father of war are covetousness of the leaders and of different interest groups fueling war.

~ Sunday Adelaja

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By covetousness, people will exploit you with deceptive words

~ Sunday Adelaja

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The whole people contracts the habits and tastes of the magistrate.

~ Alexis De Tocqueville

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But could he endure it, that other men knew her in a way that he, Staines, did not? He did not know.

~ Eleanor Catton

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When consent takes the form of seeking to possess the things we wish, this is called desire. When consent takes the form of enjoying the things we wish, this is called joy.

~ Augustine Of Hippo

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But, and here comes the rub, all of us feel that we are in complete control of our desire for things. We would never admit to an ungovernable spirit of covetousness. The problem is that we, like the alcoholic, are unable to recognize the disease once we have been engulfed by it. Only by the help of others are we able to detect the inner spirit that places wealth about God. And we must come to fear the idolatrous state of covetousness because the moment things have priority, radical obedience becomes impossible.

~ Richard J. Foster

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Desire is insatiable as death, but He who fills all in all can fill it. The capacity of our wishes who can measure? But the immeasurable wealth of God can more than overflow it.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

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Fifties advertising was a dogmatic art, to the point of pretending to be a science.

~ Rick Perlstein

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Newspapers provided a common culture of aspiration.

~ Charles Emmerson

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The algorithms that orchestrate our ads are starting to orchestrate our lives.

~ Eli Pariser

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Even envy, wants to even the score.

~ Anthony Liccione

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