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Shakespeare Sacrificed: Or the Offering to Avarice by James Gillray The Father and Mother by Boardman Robinson depicting War as the offspring of Greed and Pride. Greed (or avarice) is an insatiable desire for material gain (be it food, money, land, or animate/inanimate possessions) or social value, such as status, or power.
These three states are delusion, also known as ignorance; greed or sensual attachment; and hatred or aversion. [1] [2] These three poisons are considered to be three afflictions or character flaws that are innate in beings and the root of craving, and so causing suffering and rebirth. [1] [3]
C. S. Lewis writes in Mere Christianity that pride is the "anti-God" state, the position in which the ego and the self are directly opposed to God: "Unchastity, anger, greed, drunkenness and all that, are mere fleabites in comparison: it was through Pride that Lucifer became wicked: Pride leads to every other vice: it is the complete anti-God ...
During the Middle Ages, Mammon was commonly personified as the demon of wealth and greed. Thus Peter Lombard (II, dist. 6) says, "Riches are called by the name of a devil, namely Mammon, for Mammon is the name of a devil, by which name riches are called according to the Syrian tongue."
In Buddhism, lobha , synonymous with taṇhā and rāga, [6] refers to the concept of "craving" or "greed" that is a mental factor in the form of mental defilement, acting as one of the roots of evil actions—lobha, dosa, and moha. [7] [8] Lobha is a Sanskrit technical term, used in jurisdiction, meaning "greed for wealth". [9]
A new biography of the former first lady finds that her disdain for the president dates as least as far back as a 1990s diary entry.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Barbara Bush didn't bite her tongue in recent years when it came to Donald Trump: She just didn't like him. But a new biography of the former first lady finds that her disdain ...
New symbols have also arisen: one of the most known in the United Kingdom is the red poppy as a symbol of remembrance of the fallen in war. List. Flower Meaning