No living creature is naturally greedy, except from fear of want - or in the case of human beings, from vanity, the notion that you're better than people if you can display more superfluous property than they can.
I am surrounded by priests who repeat incessantly that their kingdom is not of this world, and yet they lay their hands on everything they can get.
Power, whether vested in many or a few, is ever grasping, and like the grave, cries, "Give, give!
And I speak of spiritual suffering! Of people seeing their talent, their work, their lives wasted. Of good minds submitting to stupid ones. Of strength and courage strangled by envy, greed for power, fear of change. Change is freedom, change is life
When a man once gets a start holding office, it is nearly always necessary to finally choke him off.
Power-lust is a weed that grows only in the vacant lots of an abandoned mind.
Ambition, and Covetousnesse are Passions that are perpetually incumbent, and pressing.
Power calls to those who are hungry for power, and there are hungry idiots everywhere.
But at a certain point, and I don't really know... people have asked me this. I don't know exactly what it was that pushed me towards directing, but I think it was a naive notion that if I directed I would be able to play all the roles. A kind of greed.
Knowledge, having irritated and stimulated our appetite for power, will lead us inexorably to our ruin.
The desire of power in excess caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge in excess caused man to fall: but in charity there is no excess; neither can angel nor man come in danger by it.
