Quotes About Covetousness

No lusting after your neighbor's house - or wife or servant or maid or ox or donkey. Don't set your heart on anything that is your neighbor's.

Don't you think that when we envy other people their qualities, their lives, their possessions--we don't mean 'I wish I were you,' but 'I wish I had some of the things you've got in addition to all I've got'?

I never had any other desire so strong, and so like to covetousness, as that one which I have had always, that I might be master at last of a small house and a large Garden.

We carry our envy amplification device around in our pockets, we sleep with it next to our pillows, and it tempts us 24 hours a day, the moment we wake up, even if it is the middle of the night.

There is no credulity so eager and blind as the credulity of covetousness, which, in its universal extent, measures the moral misery and the intellectual destitution of mankind.

Of the seven deadly sins, only envy is no fun at all.

Covetousness keeps the mind agitated and unhappy, far from the peace of contentment.

Actions of the Mind The last three unskillful actions the Buddha pointed out are actions of mind. These are subtler than actions of body or speech and take keen investigation to explore and understand. The first of them is covetousness, the wanting mind, the feeling that we never have enough.

The most common disguise of Envy is in praise of what is subordinate.

You know the old Russian proverb, Allon. What's mine is mine, and what's yours is mine.

If envy were a fever, all the world would be ill.

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I can't get them in as well, you greedy little bastard.

One of the consequences of covetousness is that it destroys the capacity to discern sufficiency. It distorts our thinking to the point where: Enough is never enough.

For there are two things not easily controlled, and they are hunger and jealousy.

Money, money, money! I think about money morning, noon and night! I dare say it's mercenary of me, but there it is!

People who don't have a certain thing will tend to see it in one of two ways: as something that they absolutely must have or something that no one should ever have

C]olonization works to decivilize the colonizer, to brutalize him in the true sense of the word, to degrade him, to awaken him to buried instincts, to covetousness, violence, race hatred, and moral relativism.

WHEN SOMEONE SEES his neighbor acquiring some worldly property, whether some kind of food or clothing, or a house, or accumulating money, he works hard to get the same, because he thinks, "If my friend has this, I should also have it!" —ORCHOT TZADDIKIM (1540)

Though we take from a covetous man all his treasure, he has yet one jewel left; you cannot bereave him of his covetousness.

These are the four that are never content: that have never been filled since the dew began- Jacala's mouth, and the glut of the kite, and the hands of the ape, and the eyes of Man.

Four things does a reckless man gain who covets his neighbor's wife - demerit, an uncomfortable bed, thirdly, punishment, and lastly, hell.

Covetous men need money least, yet they most affect it; but prodigals, who need it most have the least regard for it.

To the covetous man life is a nightmare, and God lets him wrestle with it as best he may.