Constant Quote by William Graham Sumner

Selfishness is the root and source of all natural and moral evils.

— Nathanael Emmons

Selfishness is the root and source of all natural and oral evils.

— Anonymous

Selfishness is that detestable vice which no one will forgive in others, and no one is without in himself

— Henry Ward Beecher

Greed, envy, sloth, pride and gluttony: these are not vices anymore. No, these are marketing tools. Lust is our way of life. Envy is…

— Jon Foreman

Virtue and vice are not arbitrary things; but there is a natural and eternal reason for goodness and virtue, and against vice and wickedness.

— John Tillotson

Our nature holds so much envy and malice that our pleasure in our own advantages is not so great as our distress at others'.

— Plutarch

Selfishness, if but reasonably tempered with wisdom, is not such an evil trait.

— Giovanni Ruffini

“With the wise man, what he has does not cease to be enjoyable because some one else has something else. Envy, in fact, is…

— Bertrand Russell

The vice of envy is not only a dangerous, but a mean vice; for it is always a confession of inferiority. It may promote…

— Theodore Roosevelt

Truth, wisdom, love, seek reasons; malice only seeks causes.

— Johann Kaspar Lavater

Envy ... is one form of a vice, partly moral, partly intellectual, which consists in seeing things never in themselves but only in their relations.

— Bertrand Russell

Selfishness is the root of great evil.

— Richard G. Scott