Selfishness And Greed Quotes:

Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed.

- Mahatma Gandhi

topic: Inspirational, Spiritual, Nature, Inspirational Earth, Inspirational Environmental

I believe all suffering is caused by ignorance. People inflict pain on others in the selfish pursuit of their happiness or satisfaction. Yet true happiness comes from a sense of inner peace and contentment, which in turn must be achieved through the cultivation of altruism, of love and compassion and elimination of ignorance, selfishness and greed.

- Dalai Lama

topic: Inspirational, Peace, Pain, Inflicting Pain, Altruism

Selfishness and greed, individual or national, cause most of our troubles.

- Harry S. Truman

source: Truman, Harry S. (1962). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Harry S. Truman, 1946, Volume 2”, p.512, Best Books on

topic: Greed, Selfishness, Causes, Selfishness And Greed

A man is called selfish not for pursuing his own good, but for neglecting his neighbor's.

- Richard Whately

topic: Selfish, Helping Others, Men, Selfish People, Kwanzaa

Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live; it is asking others to live as one wishes to live. And unselfishness is letting other people's lives alone, not interfering with them. Selfishness always aims at uniformity of type. Unselfishness recognizes infinite variety of type as a delightful thing, accepts it, acquiesces in it, enjoys it.

- Oscar Wilde

topic: Selfish, People, Wish, Being Selfish, Soul Man

True happiness comes from having a sense of inner peace and contentment, which in turn must be achieved by cultivating altruism, love and compassion, and by eliminating anger, selfishness and greed.

- Dalai Lama

topic: Compassion, Greed, Inner Peace, Altruism, Selfishness And Greed

Selfish persons are incapable of loving others, but they are not capable of loving themselves either.

- Erich Fromm

topic: Selfish, Love You, Greed, Selfish Person, Selfish People

Those who do not hate their own selfishness and regard themselves as more important than the rest of the world are blind because the truth lies elsewhere

- Blaise Pascal

topic: Hate, Lying, Important, Selfish World, Selfishness And Greed

There will be selfishness and greed and corruption and narrowness and intolerance in the world tomorrow and tomorrow's tomorrow. But pray God we may have the courage and the wisdom and the vision to raise a definite standard that will appeal to the best that is in man, and then strive mightily toward that goal.

- Harold Stassen

topic: Selfish, Men, Goal, Selfishness And Greed

There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up.

- Oscar Wilde

topic: Funny, Wisdom, Greed, Lethargy, Selfish People

Lust and greed are more gullible than innocence.

- Mason Cooley

topic: Greed, Lust, Literature, Lust And Greed, Gullible

Manifest plainness, embrace simplicity, reduce selfishness, have few desires.

- Laozi

source: Tao-te Ching ch. 19 (translation byWing-Tsit Chan)

topic: Inspirational, Selfish, Simple, Living A Simple Life, Plainness

Declare your jihad on thirteen enemies you cannot see - Egoism, Arrogance, Conceit, Selfishness, Greed, Lust, Intolerance, Anger, Lying, Cheating, Gossiping and Slandering. If you can master and destroy them, then will be ready to fight the enemy you can see.

- Al-Ghazali

topic: Cheating, Lying, Islamic, Jihad, Lust And Greed

many people must be ruled to thrive. In their selfishness and greed, they see free people as their oppressors. They wish to have a leader who will cut the taller plants so the sun will reach them. They think no plant should be allowed to grow taller than the shortest, and in that way give light to all. They would rather be provided a guiding light, regardless of the fuel, than light a candle themselves.

- Terry Goodkind

source: Terry Goodkind (2015). “Wizard's First Rule”, p.134, Head of Zeus

topic: Cutting, Thinking, Light, Guiding Light, Selfishness And Greed

The age of selfishness and greed is over. The age of kindness and generosity is underway.

- Laurence Overmire

topic: Kindness, Future, Generosity, Selfishness And Greed

Education has now become the chief problem of the world, its one holy cause. The nations that see this will survive, and those that fail to do so will slowly perish. . . . There must be re-education of the will and of the heart as well as of the intellect; and the ideals of service must supplant those of selfishness and greed.

- G. Stanley Hall

topic: Selfish, Heart, Science, Selfishness And Greed

The world says: "You have needs - satisfy them. You have as much right as the rich and the mighty. Don't hesitate to satisfy your needs; indeed, expand your needs and demand more." This is the worldly doctrine of today. And they believe that this is freedom. The result for the rich is isolation and suicide, for the poor, envy and murder.

- Fyodor Dostoevsky

source: "The Idiot". Book by Fyodor Dostoevsky (p. 2151), 1874.

topic: Suicide, Believe, Envy, Worldly, Brothers Karamazov

I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle.

- Jane Austen

topic: Selfish, Practice, Selfishness, Selfish People, Pride And Prejudice Pride

The secret of success is to realize that the crisis on our planet is much larger than just deciding what to do with your own life, and if the system under which we live the structure of western civilization begins to collapse because of our selfishness and greed, then it will make no difference whether you have $1 million dollars when the crash comes or just $1.00. The only work that will ultimately bring any good to any of us is the work of contributing to the healing of the world.

- Marianne Williamson

topic: Success, Healing, Differences, Our Planet, Deciding What To Do

The message of this season that is applicable throughout the year lies not in the receiving of earthly presents and treasures but in the forsaking of selfishness and greed and in going forward, seeking and enjoying the gifts of the Spirit, which Paul said are 'love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,meekness,temperance: against such there is no law' (Gal. 5:22-23).

- James E. Faust

topic: Love, Lying, Gifts Of The Spirit, Selfishness And Greed

I like to think that my arrogance, impetuosity, impatience, selfishness and greed are the qualities that make me the lovable chap I am.

- Richard Hammond

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Thinking, Greed, Arrogance, Selfishness And Greed

Landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed.

- Karl Marx

topic: Philosophical, Men, Landlord, Investing In Real Estate, Private Property

Throughout the 1980s, we did hear too much about individual gain and the ethos of selfishness and greed. We did not hear enough about how to be a good member of a community, to define the common good and to repair the social contract. And we also found that while prosperity does not trickle down from the most powerful to the rest of us, all too often indifference and even intolerance do.

- Hillary Clinton

topic: Powerful, Ethos, Community, Social Contract, Rich And Poor