Eugene McCarthy Quotes

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

Covetousness is both the beginning and the end of the devil's alphabet - the first vice in corrupt nature that moves, and the last which dies.

In recompense, envy may be the subtlest - perhaps I should say the most insidious - of the seven deadly sins.

The seven deadly sins: Want of money, bad health, bad temper, chastity, family ties, knowing that you know things, and believing in the Christian religion.

Social networks do best when they tap into one of the seven deadly sins. Facebook is ego. Zynga is sloth. LinkedIn is greed.

Pride, envy, avarice—these sparks Have set on fire the hearts of all men.

An honest man in politics shines more there than he would elsewhere.

The beast for me is greed. Whether you read Dante, Swift, or any of these guys, it always boils down to the same thing: the corruption of the soul.

Great men are almost always bad men.

These are the meats to abstain from- others' wealth, others' wives, slander, envy, covetousness and pride.

In public life as in private life, a man of the very highest repute will occasionally go wrong..

Corruption is not the sole test of your worthiness to form the government.

If we lived in a State where virtue was profitable, common sense would make us good, and greed would make us saintly. And we'd live like animals or angels in the happy land that /needs/ no heroes. But since in fact we see that avarice, anger, envy, pride, sloth, lust and stupidity commonly profit far beyond humility, chastity, fortitude, justice and thought, and have to choose, to be human at all... why then perhaps we /must/ stand fast a little --even at the risk of being heroes.

To say America can have strong leadership without strong character is to say we can get water without the wet.

Great eagerness in the pursuit of wealth, pleasure, or honor, cannot exist without sin.

I think I should be a president. President of the United States.

There's no way that I could be the president. You can't have a pacifist in the White House... I'm an actor. This is what I do for a living.

In politics, the people I most despise are those who have no values.

Lust and greed are more gullible than innocence.

It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power.

Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins in his conduct.

Money is the fruit of evil, as often as the root of it.

Politics ruins the character.

There are, believe it or not, good politicians.

Lincoln said you cannot be President without spending some item on your knees. I have repeated that and a bunch of Atheists got all over me. Wait a minute. Does that mean that you cannot be President if you are an Atheist? I say yea that does mean that.