Cupidity

To suggest, as your comment seems to, that ALL opposition to the stimulus bill must be based upon Republican cupidity is simply silly but typical of the hysteria being used to sell this ill considered and destructive indulgence. zyxw Says: ❋ Unknown (2009)

The immense quantities of wild fowl and animal and bird life along the shores astonished them; but what most aroused their cupidity was the enormous supply of furs, especially beaver and otter, that could be obtained from the Indians. ❋ Sydney George Fisher (1891)

The love of God for his own sake which is necessary for eternal life belongs exclusively to the supreme degree of the superior reason, but the Saint teaches (as Bossuet has clearly shown against Fénélon) that there is a reasonable, high love of cupidity, that is, a love of God as good to us, even in the highest degree and supreme point of the spirit. ❋ 1567-1622 (1884)

When the object is absent, or, like God, not as present as it may become, the tending, advancing, aspiring movement is called a love of desire, that is, the cupidity of what we have not but hope to have. ❋ 1567-1622 (1884)

But his cupidity was the stronger feeling, and Raleigh was sent with fourteen ships to the coasts of South America. ❋ John Lord (1852)

This is perhaps the primary reason that capitalism is _inherently_ an immoral system; not simply because it contributes to inequality and immiseration (which it does) but because in its own way, it aggravates vices such as cupidity, greed, and the libido dominandi. ❋ Unknown (2010)

This colorless face expressed patience, commercial shrewdness, and the sort of wily cupidity which is needful in business. ❋ Unknown (2007)

I do not come here to ask your favors, such as cupidity would covet, or even such as would relieve indigence -- Marat's widow needs no more than a tomb. ❋ Elbert Hubbard (1885)

If Pat had been paying attention (and as Pat usually does, I can only count this as 'cupidity' on his part), he might also have mentioned that ❋ Unknown (2010)

English borrowed this as "cupidity," which originally in the 15th century was synonymous with ❋ Unknown (2009)

Unless you live in the Metro-Detroit area you have no idea how righteous the sinful can act in making grandstanding points while swimming deep in the slime of theft, bribery and cupidity. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Cupid lends his name to the desire for both love and money – cupidity being the all-consuming longing for riches. ❋ Unknown (2012)

It's entirely possible to have the kind of calamity we experienced as a result of mass delusion, ignorance, mistakes, stupidity and cupidity. ❋ Jean Eaglesham (2011)

The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. ❋ John W. Whitehead (2011)

Members of the House of Representatives have been casting a string of votes of staggering recklessness and cupidity. ❋ Carl Pope (2011)

What it does offer, though, what it aspires to provide in regions where cupidity and cruelty are the familiar orders of every day, is the chance of something better. ❋ Unknown (2011)

However by aiming at so many targets, including Caroline cupidity, consumerism and astrological gullibility, Massinger leaves none of them severely dented. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Because history is the people's discipline, books about it are relatively salable—invitingly so, to indolent cupidity. ❋ Felipe Fernández-Armesto (2011)