This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Avarice has ruined more men than prodigality, and the blindest thoughtlessness of expenditure has not destroyed so many fortunes as the calculating but insatiable lust of accumulation.
Avarice | Lust | Men | Prodigality |
Dwight Eisenhower, fully Dwight David "Ike" Eisenhower
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron.
Children | Genius | Humanity | Hunger | Life | Life | Money | Sense | War | World |
To spend several days in a friend's house and hunger for something to read, while you are treading on costly carpets, and sitting upon luxurious chairs and sleeping upon down, is as if one were bribing your body for the sake of cheating your mind.
James Froude, fully James Anthony Froude
The moral law is written on the tablets of eternity. For every false word or unrighteous deed, for cruelty and oppression, for lust or vanity, the price has to be paid at last.
Cruelty | Eternity | Law | Lust | Moral law | Oppression | Price | Cruelty |
The entire object of true education is to make people not merely do the right thing, but enjoy the right things; not merely industrious, but to love industry; not merely learned, but to love knowledge; not merely pure, but to love purity; not merely just, but to hunger and thirst after justice.
Education | Hunger | Industry | Justice | Knowledge | Love | Object | People | Purity | Right |
The lust for comfort, that stealthy thing that enters the housed as a guest, and then becomes a host, and then a master.
The lust for comfort, that stealthy thing that enters the house as a guest, and then becomes a host, and then a master.
What is evil but good tortured by its own hunger and thirst?
Paramahansa Yogananda, born Mukunda Lal Ghosh
The soul’s hunger can never be appeased by indulgence of the senses.
Hunger | Indulgence | Soul |
Paramahansa Yogananda, born Mukunda Lal Ghosh
Mankind must realize that the basic nature of the soul is spiritual. For man and woman to look upon each other only as a means to satisfy lust is to court the destruction of happiness. Slowly, bit by bit, peace of mind will go.
Lust | Man | Mankind | Means | Mind | Nature | Peace | Soul | Will | Woman |
Excellence is lost sight of in the hunger for sudden performance and praise.
Excellence | Hunger | Praise |