Quotes on Selfishness And Greed

All suffering is caused by ignorance. People inflict pain on others in the selfish pursuit of their happiness or satisfaction.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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