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Socialism violates at least three of the Ten Commandments: It turns government into God, it legalizes thievery and it elevates covetousness. Discussions of income inequality, after all, aren't about prosperity but about petty spite. Why should you care how much money I make, so long as you are happy?
Ben Shapiro
God
Government
You
Happy
Socialism
Money
Prosperity
Care
Three
Long
Petty
About
Ten
Ten Commandments
Spite
Make
Inequality
How
Least
How Much
How Much Money
Commandments
Covetousness
Discussions
After
Much
Should
Turns
Income
Income Inequality
Why
Violates
There are four Powers: memory and intellect, desire and covetousness. The two first are mental and the others sensual. The three senses: sight, hearing and smell cannot well be prevented; touch and taste not at all.
Leonardo da Vinci
Memory
Three
First
Smell
Others
Sight
Touch
Mental
Powers
Well
Hearing
Covetousness
Intellect
Taste
Senses
Cannot
Sensual
Four
Desire
Two
There is no austerity equal to a balanced mind, and there is no happiness equal to contentment; there is no disease like covetousness, and no virtue like mercy.
Chanakya
Happiness
Mind
Mercy
Contentment
Virtue
Like
Equal
Balanced
Covetousness
Austerity
Disease
The curse of covetousness is that it destroys manhood by substituting money for character.
Lucy Larcom
Character
Money
Destroys
Covetousness
Curse
Manhood
Though we take from a covetous man all his treasure, he has yet one jewel left; you cannot bereave him of his covetousness.
John Milton
You
Man
Though
Take
He
Him
His
Covetousness
Left
Cannot
Treasure
Jewel
True it is that covetousness is rich, modesty starves.
John Milton
Rich
True
Covetousness
Modesty
If you don't work yourself up into a fever of greed and covetousness in an art museum, you're just not doing the job.
Thomas Hoving
Work
Art
You
Yourself
Job
Greed
Doing
Covetousness
Up
Fever
Just
Museum