cupidity

To suggest, as your comment seems to, that ALL opposition to the stimulus bill must be based upon Republican cupidity is simply silly but typical of the hysteria being used to sell this ill considered and destructive indulgence. zyxw Says:

Matthew Yglesias » Nelson: Hair-Splitting in Defense of Bad Policy is No Vice 2009

The immense quantities of wild fowl and animal and bird life along the shores astonished them; but what most aroused their cupidity was the enormous supply of furs, especially beaver and otter, that could be obtained from the Indians.

The Quaker Colonies, a chronicle of the proprietors of the Delaware Sydney George Fisher 1891

The love of God for his own sake which is necessary for eternal life belongs exclusively to the supreme degree of the superior reason, but the Saint teaches (as Bossuet has clearly shown against Fénélon) that there is a reasonable, high love of cupidity, that is, a love of God as good to us, even in the highest degree and supreme point of the spirit.

Treatise on the Love of God 1567-1622 1884

When the object is absent, or, like God, not as present as it may become, the tending, advancing, aspiring movement is called a love of desire, that is, the cupidity of what we have not but hope to have.

Treatise on the Love of God 1567-1622 1884

But his cupidity was the stronger feeling, and Raleigh was sent with fourteen ships to the coasts of South America.

A Modern History, From the Time of Luther to the Fall of Napoleon For the Use of Schools and Colleges John Lord 1852

This is perhaps the primary reason that capitalism is _inherently_ an immoral system; not simply because it contributes to inequality and immiseration (which it does) but because in its own way, it aggravates vices such as cupidity, greed, and the libido dominandi.

Matthew Yglesias » Culture and Size and Scope of Government 2010

This colorless face expressed patience, commercial shrewdness, and the sort of wily cupidity which is needful in business.

At the Sign of the Cat and Racket 2007

This colorless face expressed patience, commercial shrewdness, and the sort of wily cupidity which is needful in business.

At the Sign of the Cat and Racket 2007

I do not come here to ask your favors, such as cupidity would covet, or even such as would relieve indigence -- Marat's widow needs no more than a tomb.

Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great, Volume 7 Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Orators Elbert Hubbard 1885

This colorless face expressed patience, commercial shrewdness, and the sort of wily cupidity which is needful in business.

At the Sign of the Cat & Racket Honor�� de Balzac 1824