Greedy Quote by Park Dietz

I think most people are very, very much motivated by sex - greed, sex, and hunger.

— Truman Capote

I think that in today's world, by nature, we are all self-centered. And that often leads to selfishness.

— Gary Chapman

Human beings are 'emotional amoral egoists,' driven above all by emotional self-interest. All of our thoughts, beliefs and motivations are neurochemically mediated, some predetermined…

— Nayef Al-Rodhan

There is in even the most selfish passion a large element of self-abnegation. It is startling to realize that what we call extreme self-seeking…

— Eric Hoffer

I think mankind is overly sensitive, very needy, greedy, and flawed.

— Craig Kilborn

We cannot doubt that self-interest is the mainspring of human nature. It must be clearly understood that this word is used here to designate…

— Frederic Bastiat

People are selfish. What's more, they aren't, for the most part, very interested in ideals. They're interested in themselves, not the truth or the…

— Norah Vincent

Even cynical, selfish people will realize, one way or the other, that it's not in their self-interest to act in self-destructive ways.

— David Grinspoon

“There is even in the most selfish passion a large element of self-abnegation. It is startling to realize that we call extreme self-seeking is…

— Eric Hoffer

Human beings are endowed by nature with both selfish and unselfish impulses.

— Reinhold Niebuhr

The theory that everyone acts from self-interest, direct or indirect, is psychologically unsound. . . . Throughout history . . . there have been…

— Corliss Lamont

But society has now fairly got the better of individuality; and the danger which threatens human nature is not the excess, but the deficiency,…

— John Stuart Mill