The poison of selfishness destroys the world.
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Selfishness is the greatest curse of the human race.
Most of the time, the things that really change the world exist for something fundamentally selfish and then the world-changing ends up being a side-effect of that.
You know, we're really destroying ourselves because we're really making the motivating force of anything we do selfish.
Greed is so destructive. It destroys everything.
Selfishness is that detestable vice which no one will forgive in others, and no one is without himself.
Selfishness is one of the more common faces of pride. 'How everything affects me' is the center of all that matters - self-conceit, self-pity, worldly self-fulfillment, self-gratification, and self-seeking.
The existing principle of selfish interest and competition has been carried to its extreme point; and, in its progress, has isolated the heart of man, blunted the edge of his finest sensibilities, and annihilated all his most generous impulses and sympathies.
There are seeds of self-destruction in all of us that will bear only unhappiness if allowed to grow.
The situation the Earth is in today has been created by unmindful production and unmindful consumption. We consume to forget our worries and our anxieties. Tranquilising ourselves with over-consumption is not the way.
Ignorance, hatred and greed are killing nature.
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