Wars and revolutions and battles, you see, are due simply and solely to the body and its desires. All wars are undertake — Plato, Phaedo
Wars and revolutions and battles, you see, are due simply and solely to the body and its desires. All wars are undertake — Plato, Phaedo
Wars and revolutions and battles, you see, are due simply and solely to the body and its desires. All wars are undertake — Plato, Phaedo
Wars and revolutions and battles, you see, are due simply and solely to the body and its desires. All wars are undertake — Plato, Phaedo
Wars and revolutions and battles, you see, are due simply and solely to the body and its desires. All wars are undertake — Plato, Phaedo
Wars and revolutions and battles, you see, are due simply and solely to the body and its desires. All wars are undertake — Plato, Phaedo
Wars and revolutions and battles, you see, are due simply and solely to the body and its desires. All wars are undertake — Plato, Phaedo
Wars and revolutions and battles, you see, are due simply and solely to the body and its desires. All wars are undertake — Plato, Phaedo
Wars and revolutions and battles, you see, are due simply and solely to the body and its desires. All wars are undertake — Plato, Phaedo
Wars and revolutions and battles, you see, are due simply and solely to the body and its desires. All wars are undertake — Plato, Phaedo
Wars and revolutions and battles, you see, are due simply and solely to the body and its desires. All wars are undertake — Plato, Phaedo
Wars and revolutions and battles, you see, are due simply and solely to the body and its desires. All wars are undertake — Plato, Phaedo
Wars and revolutions and battles, you see, are due simply and solely to the body and its desires. All wars are undertake — Plato, Phaedo
Wars and revolutions and battles, you see, are due simply and solely to the body and its desires. All wars are undertake — Plato, Phaedo
Wars and revolutions and battles, you see, are due simply and solely to the body and its desires. All wars are undertake — Plato, Phaedo
Wars and revolutions and battles, you see, are due simply and solely to the body and its desires. All wars are undertake — Plato, Phaedo
Wars and revolutions and battles, you see, are due simply and solely to the body and its desires. All wars are undertake — Plato, Phaedo
Wars and revolutions and battles, you see, are due simply and solely to the body and its desires. All wars are undertake — Plato, Phaedo
Wars and revolutions and battles, you see, are due simply and solely to the body and its desires. All wars are undertake — Plato, Phaedo
Wars and revolutions and battles, you see, are due simply and solely to the body and its desires. All wars are undertake — Plato, Phaedo
Wars and revolutions and battles, you see, are due simply and solely to the body and its desires. All wars are undertake — Plato, Phaedo
Wars and revolutions and battles, you see, are due simply and solely to the body and its desires. All wars are undertake — Plato, Phaedo
Wars and revolutions and battles, you see, are due simply and solely to the body and its desires. All wars are undertake — Plato, Phaedo
Wars and revolutions and battles, you see, are due simply and solely to the body and its desires. All wars are undertake — Plato, Phaedo
Wars and revolutions and battles, you see, are due simply and solely to the body and its desires. All wars are undertake — Plato, Phaedo
Wars and revolutions and battles, you see, are due simply and solely to the body and its desires. All wars are undertake — Plato, Phaedo
Wars and revolutions and battles, you see, are due simply and solely to the body and its desires. All wars are undertake — Plato, Phaedo
Wars and revolutions and battles, you see, are due simply and solely to the body and its desires. All wars are undertake — Plato, Phaedo
Wars and revolutions and battles, you see, are due simply and solely to the body and its desires. All wars are undertake — Plato, Phaedo
Wars and revolutions and battles, you see, are due simply and solely to the body and its desires. All wars are undertake — Plato, Phaedo
Download Customize

Wars and revolutions and battles, you see, are due simply and solely to the body and its desires. All wars are undertaken for the acquisition of wealth; and the reason why we have to acquire wealth is the body, because we are slaves in its service.

— Plato, Phaedo
Pin Share Tweet Telegram
Topics
greed philosophy war

More “Greed” Quotes

Lust for power, greed, false religions reign today because of lack of vision and passion to redeem nations — Sunday Adelaja
The greed of power drowns our ethics. — Henry Johnson Jr, Liberian Son
He saw clearly, immediately, that the man didn't care about the gift's value, didn't care about the gift even, but cared — Ninotchka Rosca, State of War
We’re making our decisions … or so we think. Yet in truth, ignorance, greed, and the scourge of immediate gratification — Craig D. Lounsbrough
The Establishment is amassing wealth and aggressively annexing power in a way that has no precedent in modern times. Aft — Owen Jones, The Establishment: And How They Get Away with It
The social havoc wreaked by unfettered economic greed comes to be interiorised as the personal weakness and irresponsibi — David Smail, Power, Interest and Psychology: Elements of a Social Materialist Understanding of Distress
In China the egalitarian movement came not just from Zhu's vision, but also the Taoist ideas of balance, as Zhu would al — Kim Stanley Robinson, The Years of Rice and Salt
In our hearts we know that with a different fate, we, too, could be in the ranks of the dispossessed, stripped of our id — Dave Mearns, Person-Centred Therapy Today: New Frontiers in Theory and Practice
The greatest of our virtues and the worst of our sins is wanting nothing less than more. — Osman Welela, Kingdom
In all honesty, I don’t envy you the possession of this power over memory, nor do I admire you. Because humans are usual — Wu Ming-Yi, The Man with the Compound Eyes
Desire for power is a kind of greed indulged by the unfulfilled — Michael Foley
Gaining satisfaction through accomplishments is and will always be a slippery slope, because there will come a time when — A.J. Darkholme, Rise of the Morningstar