Greed Is a Weapon of Mass Destruction

Eventually human development will turn into enormous world wars, when humanity, impetuous in its greed, and egoism accumulated as the result of such consolatory politics, will practically destroy itself. Egoism develops regardless. It evolves subconsciously, so we do not see it throughout the process of development. But when egoism bursts onto a new level, we do not have the power to restrain it. It splashes and pours out, inevitably regenerating into Nazism, a terrible opposition of the people.

Every phase of human development is the following jump of egoism. But in this jump of egoism, in its own turn, aspiration to come out of it exists—a desire to rise above it. Egoism must lift us to the level of the Creator.