Desire Quote by Tahereh Mafi

“Some needs superseded our own wellbeing, and we let ourselves be destroyed by greed and results of our own careless mistakes. We pretend not…

— Gayendra Abeywardane

“Greed dissovles only after attaining Self-realization.”

— Dada Bhagwan

“Selfishness is the absence of selflessness”

— Thabiso Monkoe

“... a society devoted to self-destruction and waste but unwilling to acknowledge its indulgent ways.”

— Dan Simmons

“A selfish living is a wasteful living”

— Sunday Adelaja

“A permanent possibility of selfishness arises from the mere fact of having a self, and not from any accidents of education or ill-treatment. And…

— G.K. Chesterton

Many said selfishness was the flaw of our modern age; but then self-conceit emerged from a corner of the deepest hell to join selfishness.

— Franz Grillparzer

“By interpreting freedom as the propagation and immediate gratification of needs, people distort their own nature, for they engender in themselves a multitude of…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

This avidity alone, of acquiring goods and possessions for ourselves and our nearest friends, is insatiable, perpetual, universal, and directly destructive of society.

— David Hume

“Selfishness is self-absorption, self-seeking behaviour that either disregards the rights and needs of others or tramples them deliberately in favour of personal gain.”

— Adelyn Birch

“Artificial needs stimulated artificial greeds.”

— Dave Robinson & Judy Groves

“Desires stay unaware of man’s fragile existence authored by scarcity”

— Suman Pokhrel