{"quotes":[{"text":"Even envy, wants to even the score.","author":"Anthony Liccione","tags":["covetousness","discontent","envy","even","ill-will","score","settle"],"id":8727,"author_id":"Anthony+Liccione"},{"text":"When consent takes the form of seeking to possess the things we wish, this is called desire. When consent takes the form of enjoying the things we wish, this is called joy.","author":"Augustine of Hippo","tags":["covetousness","emotions","happiness"],"id":14531,"author_id":"Augustine+of+Hippo"},{"text":"When you see injustice among the nations, you will find out that the root cause is covetousness.","author":"Sunday Adelaja","tags":["cause-and-effect","covetousness","danger","darkness","destruction","god","ignorance","injustice","knowledge","life","light","mountain","nation","people","power"],"id":34602,"author_id":"Sunday+Adelaja"},{"text":"Greed is a contagious mental illness without which civilization as we know it would not have been possible.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["acquisitiveness","adage","adages","africa","african","aphorism","aphorisms","avarice","axiom","axioms","capitalism","civilization","civilize","civilized","contagious","covetousness","cupidity","deep","dictum","dictums","epigram","epigrams","funny","gnome","gnomes","greed","greedy","humor","humorous","humour","impossible","insightful","made-me-think","make-you-think","materialism","maxim","maxims","mental-illness","mentally-ill","mercenariness","philosopher","possible","profound","progress","proverb","proverbs","provoke-thought","quotation","quotations","quote","of-the-day","quotes","rapacity","satire","satirical","satirist","satirists","saying","sayings","selfish","selfishness","selfless","selflessness","south-africa","south-african","thought-provoking","thoughtful"],"id":61199,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"},{"text":"The architect and the father of war are covetousness of the leaders and of different interest groups fueling war.","author":"Sunday Adelaja","tags":["architect","covetousness","danger","darkness","destruction","god","groups","ignorance","interest-groups","knowledge","leaders","leadership","life","light","mountain","people","power","war"],"id":69357,"author_id":"Sunday+Adelaja"},{"text":"The algorithms that orchestrate our ads are starting to orchestrate our lives.","author":"Eli Pariser","tags":["covetousness","materialism","merchandising"],"id":112943,"author_id":"Eli+Pariser"},{"text":"Newspapers provided a common culture of aspiration.","author":"Charles Emmerson","tags":["advertising","contentment","covetousness","media"],"id":113240,"author_id":"Charles+Emmerson"},{"text":"Our covetousness for miracles and wonders leads into self-deception.","author":"Sunday Adelaja","tags":["covetousness","miracles","self-deception","wonders"],"id":158885,"author_id":"Sunday+Adelaja"},{"text":"Covetousness gives birth to violence, while violence gives birth to oppression.","author":"Sunday Adelaja","tags":["covetousness","danger","darkness","destruction","god","ignorance","knowledge","life","light","mountain","oppression","people","power","violence","violence-in-society"],"id":214430,"author_id":"Sunday+Adelaja"},{"text":"Fifties advertising was a dogmatic art, to the point of pretending to be a science.","author":"Rick Perlstein","tags":["covetousness","media","persuasion"],"id":233952,"author_id":"Rick+Perlstein"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":15,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}