Famous quotes containing the words master, passion and/or greed:
“There are many skillful apprentices, but few master workmen.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Perhaps misguided moral passion is better than confused indifference.”
—Iris Murdoch (b. 1919)
“He was all for catharsis and purification, he dreamed of an aesthetic consecration that should cleanse society of luxury, the greed of gold and all unloveliness.”
—Thomas Mann (1875–1955)