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selfishness disguise inspection
It often turns out on closer inspection that acts of apparent altruism are really selfishness in disguise. Richard Dawkins
selfish earth rebel
We, alone on earth, can rebel against the tyranny of the selfish replicators.
selfish eye sight
Natural selection, the blind, unconscious, automatic process which Darwin discovered, and which we now know is the explanation forthe existence and apparently purposeful form of all life, has no purpose in mind. It has no mind and no mind's eye. It does not plan for the future. It has no vision, no foresight, no sight at all. If it can be said to play the role of the watchmaker in nature, it is the blind watchmaker.
selfish compassion people
How far does one combine resistance to over-control with social justice, i.e. tolerable living for people in general? We are too selfish to be trusted, if left free, to give away enough to make people comfortable enough to give them a chance. Yet if all this is ordered for us, as to some extent it has to be, it so soon leads to tyranny. It is a very difficult problem. If only human beings had more pity, unselfishness, and justice and didn't need coercion to treat each other decently. Rose Macaulay
selfish impulse humans
Human beings are endowed by nature with both selfish and unselfish impulses. Reinhold Niebuhr
selfish ambition class
Love makes money-grabbing seem contemptible; love makes class prejudice impossible; love makes selfish ambition a thing to be despised; love converts enemies into friends. William Jennings Bryan
selfish character men
If you will think about what you ought to do for other people, your character will take care of itself. Character is a by-product, and any man who devotes himself to its cultivation in his own case will become a selfish prig. Woodrow Wilson
selfish sacrifice political
The world must be made safe for democracy. Its peace must be planted upon the tested foundations of political liberty. We have no selfish ends to serve. We desire no conquest, no dominion. We seek no indemnities for ourselves, no material compensation for the sacrifices we shall freely make.
selfishness agents confidential
Caution is the confidential agent of selfishness.
compassion help human life purpose serve
The purpose of human life is to serve and to show compassion and the will to help others. Albert Schweitzer
compassion facing great number
He was facing a great number of years, regardless. But I think this does show some compassion on the part of the jury. Patrick Renn
compassion maps committed
I committed to doing everything I could to put compassion on the scientific map. Richard Davidson
compassion two great-love
The two Virtues of Equanimity and Compassion become more available to the person whose ego-shell has been smashed-either by great suffering or by great love-or by both. Richard Rohr
compassion cartoon four
I had rather, if cruelty has been prevented by the four prints [The Four Stages of Cruelty], be maker of them than of the [Raphael] cartoons. William Hogarth
compassion people empathy
Our leaders are cruel because only those willing to be inordinately cruel and remorseless can hold positions of leadership in the foreign policy establishment. People capable of expressing a full human measure of compassion and empathy toward faraway powerless strangers do not become president of the United States, or vice president, or secretary of state, or national security adviser or secretary of the treasury. Nor do they want to. William Blum
compassion curiosity judgment
I like to choose compassion over judgment and curiosity over fear. Tracee Ellis Ross
compassion justice people
The fact that people are poor or discriminated against doesn't necessarily endow them with any special qualities of justice, nobility, charity or compassion. Saul Alinsky
compassion unity life-is
Life is a manifestation of unity. Said Nursi
arrogant attempt fight state
I will fight Islander East's arrogant attempt to sidestep long-established state laws, violating constitutional guarantees, Richard Blumenthal
arrogant dislike diva either men
I dislike arrogant men and diva behavior in either gender. Robin Wright
arrogant would-be form
I've always thought that we, as human beings, would be naive and arrogant to pretend that we're the only life form in the galaxy. Jonathan Frakes
arrogant sound compare
I don't like to compare things to other things. It always sounds arrogant in print. Jonah Hill
arrogant knows know-how
You know how arrogant the French are - extraordinary. Gordon Ramsay
arrogant baby belief belong boomers turn
They had this arrogant belief that when baby boomers turn 50, 'they belong to us,' and that just didn't happen.
arrogant common difference everybody good great knowing works
They're a great team. The difference in knowing that you're good and being arrogant about it is that they know they're good and they play together. Everybody works for the common good.
arrogant matter stay whenever
It was in the back of my mind. I'm not arrogant or anything, but I know I have the talent. I know that I can play. Whenever I get the chance, and I can just stay healthy, it's a matter of time.
arrogant chip shoulder
We're not as arrogant as they think we are. And I don't think they have a chip on their shoulder as much.