“Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man… Greed may drive men into competition if there is not enough to go around; but the proud man, even when he has got more than he can possibly want, will try to get still more just to assert his power. Nearly all those evils in the world which people put down to greed or selfishness are really far more the result of Pride.”
C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity
