Translation of "Cupidity" in German

Cupidity is the root of all evil.

Holy Poverty confounds cupidity and avarice and the cares of this world.

Destruction of creative conquests follows sinister cupidity.

The most economical principle is equality, which destroys privilege and cupidity.

It is this that arouses the cupidity of the salt cartel of which you are making yourselves the defenders.

But cooperation will not be durable if in its basis lie concealment and cupidity.

I swear no child, and I have, I am certain, none of my own to fire my feeling, no child, that is to say, was as ingrate as your critic, so vain, so full of cupidity and gin, Cunning,

People's minds see cupidity where there is self-sacrifice—precisely as in convex mirrors.

If there ever could exist a rational equilibrium on the stock market exchange by one or more unique method(s), that winning unique method would remain extremely valuable in all cases if it really has the power to repress so much communication noise, cupidity and irrational motives!

We need, before anything else, to hate the untruth, the polished ignorance, the cupidity of the demagogues and the sufficiency of the nonentities.

Today’s financial crisis makes us discover how avarice and cupidity have broken the ties of sense by separating the economy from its social dimension in human life.

Archbishop Martino, on his first pastoral visit to Africa as head of the Vatican Council for Justice and Peace, spoke among other things of the serious problem of the causes of the conflicts which bloody the continent, identifying one cause in particular, cupidity for the resources of which Africa’s soil and subsoil are rich .

The ones who however follow this immorality due to cupidity, money greed and unjustified enrichment, need treatment in the "sanatorium" of the project "river of hope", by education and improvement of moral and health needs and by planting enormous forests in the "large valley" (the valley between the two rivers), to make amends for what they harmed the homeland .

In my desire for a narrative I followed a thread that began in the Kolkata cemetery, I came upon an archive, and cupidity drove me to access its contents so that I could make images, take away something, fuel a story.

The over-representation of emotional relationships among individuals – competition, frustration, desire and cupidity – wipes out any collective awareness on the part of viewers.

This dialogue brings together two experts on the fluid realm: the political scientist Joyeeta Gupta, taking the perspective on water as an object of governance, geopolitical cupidity, and international development and the legal scholar Davor Vidas taking the perspective of the marine space as a historically-formed framework that might be readjusted according to current environmental changes but also to recent geoscientific scholarship.

A physician could say to the patient: "You have an attack of cupidity," or "the anemia of self-conceit," or "stones of treachery," or "a rash of gossip," or "a stroke of hatred."

In any event, it was advantageous for the powerful ones of Occident to sweep and forget the Vikings and Templiers, their civilizing companies, whereas they put at bag these people to satisfy their cupidity.

Lacey goes on to describe Napolitano's "bungled billions," hiring companies embedded with former state agency employees and cronies, ducking hard choices, using accounting gimmicks in state budgets, and various other practices amounting to "corruption, greed, and the cupidity of boondoggle bookkeeping in hard times."