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Last updated on December 12, 2024.
Greed, for lack of a better word, is good.
If you do good because you expect to be rewarded, it is greed.
We can neither change nor overpower God's eternal suffrage against selfishness and meanness.
Greed and globalization aren't just America's fault.
Today is much more an age of greed
Greed is really the religion of vulgarity.
The twin killers of success are impatience and greed.
Being sorry is the highest act of selfishness, seeing value only after discarding it.
Like nature itself, modern economic life is driven by relentless competition and unbridled selfishness. Or is it?
My desire for the part of Mammy was not dominated by selfishness for Hollywood has been good to me and I am grateful.
There is a prodigious selfishness in dreams: they live perfectly deaf and invulnerable amid the cries of the real world.
Our selfishness will condemn us to the worst suffering that we ourselves have invented - loneliness.
Selfishness is weakness. But loving and caring for others is a position of power beyond anything we can possibly imagine.
Nothing is more condemnable than selfishness. A man who thinks of himself alone is the most unlucky person of all.
It often turns out on closer inspection that acts of apparent altruism are really selfishness in disguise.
One of the unseen benefits of having children is that they deliver you from your own selfishness. There's no going back.
Legal plunder has two roots: One, as we have just seen, is in human selfishness; the other is in false philanthropy.
Selfishness draws men into a spiritual vacuum where, absorbed in self service, they shut out all others.
Love is the most ethically consistent experience, because selfishness and altruism no longer seem opposed or in conflict.
We are not slow at discovering the selfishness of others; for this plain reason--because it clashes with our own.
Taking on corporate greed is an environmental concern.
And because of our selfishness, we will be condemned to the worst torture humankind ever invented for itself: loneliness.
Faith, I am no such fool; everyone for himself in this desert of selfishness which is called life.
For greed all nature is too little.
Be fearful when there is greed and be greedy when there is fear.
Greed is merely a species of nearsightedness.
It is not necessity but abundance which produces greed.
Covetousness is a sort of mental gluttony, not confined to money, but craving honor, and feeding on selfishness.
Take the selfishness out of this world and there would be more happiness than we should know what to do with.
It is to the credit of human nature that, except where its selfishness is brought into play, it loves more readily than it hates.
Selfishness is the making a man's self his own centre, the beginning and end of all he doeth.
Remember: Greed is a bad color on a person.
Next to selfishness the principal cause which makes life unsatisfactory is want of mental cultivation.
The currency of real networking is not greed but generosity.
I can see the greed and envy in your eyes.
The vital Christian arouses opposition because he is a standing rebuke to the selfishness and sin of those around him.
Ignorance, hatred and greed are killing nature.
Law represents the effort of man to organize society; governments, the efforts of selfishness to overthrow liberty.
Camera but no selfies, which represent selfishness and egotism. Social media? Again: not really me.
One thing is clear to me, that no indulgence of passion destroys the spiritual nature so much as respectable selfishness.
Posthumous charities are the very essence of selfishness when bequeathed by those who, even alive, would part with nothing.
The hatred and cruelty which have their source in selfishness are ineffectual things compared with the venom and ruthlessness born of selflessness.
Tenderness and respect-never selfishness-must be the guiding principles in the intimate relationship between husband and wife
What kind of society isn't structured on greed?
Atlantis was destroyed by the greed of its inhabitants.
Giving is a proof that you have conquered greed.
Greed is an integral quality of a strong player.
My desire for the part of Mammy was not dominated by selfishness for Hollywood has been good to me and I am grateful
Every time we give in to selfishness and say “No” to God, we spoil his loving plan for us.
Let us reject violence and selfishness which could destroy our country's unity.
One of the worst things sin did for man was to make him selfish, for selfishness cannot love.
Getting enough of what you want without depriving anyone else is the ultimate act of selfishness and sanity.
I am guilty of stupidity, arrogance, and greed.
Greed is costly. Assembled fortunes are lost.
The truth is that cupidity, selfishness, envy, malice, lust, vindictiveness, are constant vices of human nature.
Greed's worst point is its ingratitude.
The hardest work you and I will ever do is to put off our selfishness. It is heavy lifting!
Most human beings know only the language of exploitation. Due to their selfishness, they are unable to consider others.
Fear and greed tend to affect one's judgement.
Selfishness even binds many people, but blindly without having any liking for one another.
