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The effect of capitalism is to steer human selfishness so that, through the invisible hand of competition, the energies of the capitalist produce the abundance from which the whole society benefits.
I love the competitive part of stocks. A lot of fear and greed, that's all it is. All I see is green and red.
Fifa cannot sit by and see greed rule the football world. Nor shall we.
Some critics accuse capitalism of being a selfish system, but the selfishness is not in capitalism - it is in human nature.
Power, greed, and perhaps more than anything, ego, are powerful emotions and motivators.
...people of old deemed freedom from greed precious, and this is how they got beyond the world.
Amor deliria nervosa isn't a disease of love. It's a disease of selfishness.
When I see people scratching and clawing towards ambition and greed, I wonder why they are doing it and for what.
It's sundown on the union
And what's made in the USA
Sure was a good idea
'Til greed got in the way.
There are things about some professional athletes that I cannot stand-the pretense, the egos, the pomposity, the greed.
Milton has carefully marked in his Satan the intense selfishness, the alcohol of egotism, which would rather reign in hell than serve in heaven.
Moliere exaggerates common vices of mankind: lust, greed, misanthropy, hypocrisy. We all have a touch of these.
Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive. Has any act of selfishness ever equalled the carnage perpetrated by disciples of altruism.
No thank you to all the bustas, cowards, and FAKE HOMIES who showed me the depths of jealousy, envy and greed.
Jesus reserved his hardest words for the hidden sins of hypocrisy, pride, greed and legalism.
All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.
Thread of Selfishness in Web of Life.—Deuteronomy contains much instruction regarding what the law is to us, and the relation we shall sustain to God as we reverence and obey
The common trait of all evil is nothing other than egoism... Basically all human evil comes from what we call the selfishness.
Make Money a CENTRAL priority. This has nothing to do with greed and consumption and everything to do with life force and power.
New York City is a great monument to the power of money and greed... a race for rent.
Love. Help with no expectations. Destroy selfishness, self... At the end of our lives, I believe the soul will be asked, "What did you do for your fellow man?"
Impatience is not the least of your faults, Malik, it is a kind of greed and someday it may see you undone.
Sufficient to say, greed is a deadly deed. You shall not covet your neighbor's goods.
Man is oftentimes weak-minded enough to be caught in the snare of greed and honeyed words.
Foolish people are never harmless. Stupidity accounts for as many crimes as anger and greed.
Someone reminded me I once said, 'Greed is good.' Now it seems it's legal.
If you seek in the spirit of selfishness, to grasp all as your own, you shall lose all, and be driven out of the world, at last, naked and forlorn, to everlasting poverty and contempt.
What we're seeing now is that greed is still alive and kicking, and banks are bigger than ever.
Time! Joyless emblem of the greed of millions, robber of the best which earth can give.
As long as greed, stupidity and cowardice remain a part of the human condition, there will be a constituency for Democrats.
Noir has always shown that greed and chaos are as close as the company we work for or the politicians we vote for.
There are 6 reasons that a person does anything: Love, faith, greed, boredom, fear... revenge.
Desire is the root of selfishness; clear your heart of desire and be selfless. Selflessness is the key to inner peace.
If you could leave your selfishness, you would see how you've been torturing your soul.
Basketball is the opposite of selfishness, basketball is solely about giving and sharing and caring for one another.
The everyday kindness of the back roads more than makes up for the acts of greed in the headlines.
We have to put an end to the culture of selfishness and corruption that allows greedy Wall Street banks and executives to rip off working people without any consequences.
I'm really interested in the difference between selfishness and generosity. It confuses me to no end because sometimes it all just feels like pure indulgence on my part.
If you don't work yourself up into a fever of greed and covetousness in an art museum, you're just not doing the job.
Certain beliefs must accompany every action: One should act without selfishness, cultivate compassion for all living things, and develop respect for others.
Elevation of today's generation, if I can make them listen. Prisons ain't what we need, no longer stuck in greed.
What the advertisers are trying to do by eliminating residuals is the most appalling form of greed that I cry thinking about it.
It was not curiosity that killed the goose who laid the golden egg, but an insatiable greed that devoured common sense.
The discovery of America was the occasion of the greatest outburst of cruelty and reckless greed known in history.
Unrestrained greed means the ruin of the great woods and the drying up of the sources of the rivers.
The saving of labour of the individual should be the object and honest humanitarian considerations, and not greed, the motive.
For me, I wanted to create something that's much more driven by a type of selfishness, a type of decadence.
Selfishness is the bedrock on which all moral behavior starts and it can be immoral only when it conflicts with a higher moral imperative.
Greed can't again lead the way. We've taken that route before with terrible consequences for this nation and its people.
Greed has driven the world crazy. And I think I'm lucky that I have a place over here that I can call home.
Liability limit has become a symbol of corporate greed in passing the risk of disaster to the U.S. government and U.S. citizens.
There is a big, beautiful world that could be destroyed by selfishness and foolishness. We musicians have it without power to save it. In a small way, every single one of us counts.
Selfishness doesn't consist in a love to yourself, but in a big degree of such love.
I don't think the revisionist historians are accurate. I think their agendas are clouded by selfishness and anger and rage.
The modern Left is not driven by fairness. It is guided by an ideology of greed and envy. Those are vices, not virtues.
From the Zen view all beings are in the grip of the three poisons, greed, anger and delusion (ignorance).
Progressives regard government as the white knight that protects the public from the greed of capitalists. If only.
Calm self-confidence is as far from conceit as the desire to earn a decent living is remote from greed.
There is a greed case for diversity. Diverse perspectives bring us into markets we didn't know existed.
Ideology that believes government is bad, and that public institutions and places are not valuable, is as destructive as corporate greed.
