Top 1200 Selfishness And Greed Quotes & Sayings - Page 6

It is in fact the height of selfishness to merely consume what others create and to retreat into a shell of limited goals and immediate pleasures.

If you are extremely generous, greed will run away.

Greed is good. Sex is easy. Youth is forever.

There are three all-powerful evils: lust, anger and greed.

Gambling operates under the premise that greed can be satisfied by luck.

Callous greed grows pious very fast.

Greed is the inventor of injustice as well as the current enforcer.

Lesson number one: Don't underestimate the other guy's greed.

Selfishness is the greatest challenge for a coach. Most players are more concerned with making themselves better than the team.

Love created this world, & the lack of it can kill it. Selfishness, self-absorption , arrogance & indifference never built anything.

Our enemies believed America was weak and materialistic, that we would splinter in fear and selfishness. They were as wrong as they are evil.

An intriguing paradox of the 1990s is that it isn't called a decade of greed.

Humans are selfish, and because of our innate selfishness, I'm very confident that we can overcome any amount of environmental destruction.

Revolt is the mirror in which greed is forced to see itself.

Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.

Greed, like the love of comfort, is a kind of fear.

Individual versus group selection results in a mix of altruism and selfishness, of virtue and sin, among the members of a society.

Altruism is written in everlasting and resplendent character on the Cross of Christ, and it was at Calvary that the centre of life was shifted from selfishness to sacrifice.

Sex, greed, debauchery - I love it. Brian Azzarello is brilliant.

Envy and greed starve on a steady diet of thanksgiving.

The privileged have regularly invited their own destruction with their greed.

From the first day to this, sheer greed was the driving spirit of civilization.

Mr. Greed, why do you have to own everything that you see?

Lust and greed are more gullible than innocence.

Organized greed always defeats disorganized democracy.

Gratitude free of compassion is selfishness. It is nothing more than being happy for what has been done to benefit you.

Our country, our economy - don't doubt me on this - our economy is based on capitalism. Barack Obama's stated reason for being inspired by Reverend Wright was his speech, 'White man's greed runs a world in need.' That inspired Obama, 'White man's greed runs a world in need.' That's the real American dream. Working hard you will get ahead. But you can't have that if you want to create a permanent underclass. You simply cannot have people getting ahead. It destroys the whole notion of a permanent underclass.

White folks' greed runs a world in need.

Throw away profit and greed, and there won't be any thieves.

Money is therefore not only the object but also the fountainhead of greed.

Greed is the lack of confidence of one's own ability to create.

Two evils, greed and faction are the destruction of all justice.

Competition, which is the instinct of selfishness, is another word for dissipation of energy, while combination is the secret of efficient production.

I think the main focus in America is - is basically greed.

The powerful have no monopoly on greed, hatred, fear, or ignorance.

Greed has been severely underestimated and denigrated - unfairly so, in my opinion.

There is no such thing as low-cost Christianity. Following Jesus means swimming against the tide, renouncing evil and selfishness

To practice Zen Buddhism is to train oneself to eliminate hatred, anger and selfishness and to develop loving-kindness towards all.

The top two ways to destroy success are greed and impatience

The myth of hell represents all the meanness, all the revenge, all the selfishness, all the cruelty, all the hatred, all the infamy of which the heart of man is capable.

You have to remove your human sentiment when it comes to greed and the accumulation of wealth.

In the race of men is much greed and envy; but of truth, little.

I was Amazement--I was Desire--I was Ecstasy and Rapture and the slightest bit of Greed.

In these times gain is not only a matter of greed, but of ambition.

A house built on greed cannot long endure.

It's all about greed and money and it's the driving force in Hollywood.

Lust, Greed, Anger, Attachment - These are all paths to hell.

Forgiveness is the key that unlocks the door of resentment and the handcuffs of hatred. It is a power that breaks the chains of bitterness and the shackles of selfishness.

The essence of good advertising is not to inspire hope, but to create greed.

Greed is a deprivation of abundance, a hoarding, a constriction of energy.

The market is a very emotional place that appeals to fear and greed.

We are vulnerable if we can be taken by a wave of emotion, invaded by an invidious impulse, roughed up by resentment, or engulfed by a surge of selfishness.

America has gone crazy with greed. I really have to say that.

Greed is but a word jealous men inflict upon the ambitious.

The earth has everything for all human needs, but nothing for his greed.

I can only say that I have acted upon my best convictions, without selfishness or malice, and that by the help of God I shall continue to do so.

Corporate greed is killing America, and that's what we battling at Boeing.

I contemplated my greed for peace. And I did not seek tranquillity anymore.

Men kill for many reasons, they steal but for one-greed.

If the heart is fed by love, the greed for pleasure would disappear.