Great eagerness in the pursuit of wealth, pleasure, or honor, cannot exist without sin.
Enthusiasm
Quotations by Desiderius Erasmus
Quotes :
- "Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.… "Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature." - Helen Keller
- Roy Nichols Aguilar Quotes "A narcostate is a country where politicians amass wealth by engaging in the fantastically lucrative drug trade in order to buy themselves into power during elections thereby enabling themselves to amass still more wealth by using the power they have bought. Whenever they are caught and brought to court for their illegal activities they simply buy their freedom by using a part of the wealth…
- E. F. Schumacher – materialism “Insights of wisdom … enable us to see the hollowness and fundamental unsatisfactoriness of a life devoted primarily to the pursuit of material ends, to the neglect of the spiritual. Such a life necessarily sets man against man and nation against nation, because man’s needs are infinite and infinitude can be achieved only in the spiritual realm, never in the material.” ~E. F. Schumacher
- "If it were (Is it not) outrageous that society… "If it were (Is it not) outrageous that society should treat with such rigid precision those of its members who were most poorly endowed in the distribution or wealth that chance had made, and who were, therefore, most worthy of indulgence." - Victor Hugo