Neal A. Maxwell Quotes

Other sins find their vent in the accomplishment of evil deeds, whereas pride lies in wait for good deeds, to destroy them.

Selfishness is the root of great evil.

The basis of all sin is selfishness.

The quest for riches darkens the sense of right and wrong.

The beast for me is greed. Whether you read Dante, Swift, or any of these guys, it always boils down to the same thing: the corruption of the soul.

Evil changes everybody!

When a man gets his money in bad ways, when he sees the better course and takes the worse, then the devil's in his heart, and that fixes him.

Covetousness is both the beginning and the end of the devil's alphabet - the first vice in corrupt nature that moves, and the last which dies.

Avalanches of evil begin with a single pebble of sin.

Two evils, greed and faction are the destruction of all justice.

Greed has poisoned men's souls, has barricaded the world with hate, has goose-stepped us into misery and bloodshed.

To justify and extol human greed and egotism is to my mind not only immoral, but evil.

Were the life of man prolonged, he would become such a proficient in villainy, that it would become necessary again to drown or to burn the world. Earth would become an hell; for future rewards when put off to a great distance, would cease to encourage, and future punishments to alarm.

You will say these are very small sins... [But] it does not matter how small the sins are provided that their cumulative effect is to edge the man away from the Light and out into the Nothing. Murder is no better than cards if cards can do the trick. Indeed, the safest road to Hell is the gradual one--the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts

I think that money is the root of all evil. I've seen it happen.

Great eagerness in the pursuit of wealth, pleasure, or honor, cannot exist without sin.

The world is increasing in wickedness.

The most dangerous thing in the world is the sin of self-reliance and the stupor of worldliness.

Self-centered indulgence, pride and a lack of shame over sin are now emblems of the American lifestyle.

Yet the evil still increased, and, like the parasite of barnacles on a ship, if it did not destroy the structure, it obstructed its fair, comfortable progress in the path of life.

But Satan now is wiser than of yore, and tempts by making rich, not making poor.

Greed has taken the whole universe, and nobody is worried about their soul.

There is a concept that is the corrupter and destroyer of all others. I speak not of Evil, whose limited empire is that of ethics; I speak of the infinite.

It is a proof of our natural bias to evil, that gain is slower and harder than loss in all things good; but in all things bad getting is quicker and easier than getting rid of.