Sentence examples for selfish greed from inspiring English sources
Greed is going to do us in — stupid, selfish greed.
"We disapprove of your wasting NHS money to treat your selfish greed.
It's this sort of selfish greed, from the subprime-mortgage market to the ponzi scheme of Bernard Madoff, that helped usher in our current global recession.
It lies between the dishonour of selfish greed – and their duty to help this nation out of the crisis they caused".
This is the celebration of that which was hatched under Thatcher, boomed under Blair, was bloated by Brown and now triumphs under Cameron: the absolute hegemony of selfish greed and impunity of money.
"I think adults and young adults are being very selfish and using greed to raise money," said the Rev. Vernon Williams, an antiviolence activist who sees a correlation between nutcracker sales and youth violence.
Politics is not meant for the fulfillment of selfish aims and greed, but its sole purpose is selfless service.
The philosopher Peter Singer considers that usually when we describe an action as conscientious in the critical sense we do so in order to deny either that the relevant agent was motivated by selfish desires, like greed or ambition, or that he acted on whim or impulse.
Mr Edwards argued that American politics has been hijacked by "a small band of profiteers that has sold out America in selfish service of their greed and power".
To achieve this sanctity he realized that he and his spiritual companions had to absolutely let go of selfish possessiveness and the greed of being.
