Famous quotes containing the words master, passion and/or greed:
“It belongs to the humanity of a master to warn his pupil about himself.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)
“Perhaps misguided moral passion is better than confused indifference.”
—Iris Murdoch (b. 1919)
“Who does not know that kings and rulers sprang from men who were ignorant of God, who assumed because of blind greed and intolerable presumption to make themselves masters of other men, their equals, by means of pride, violence, bad faith, murder, and almost every other kind of crime? Surely the devil drove them on.”
—Pope Gregory VII (c. 1020–1085)