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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.
intelligent hip-hop inspire
A lot of underground hip-hop will inspire me as far as rhyme patterns - really wordy, intelligent lyrics. Travie McCoy
intelligent civilization people
Civilization depends upon the vigorous pursuit of the highest values by people who are intelligent enough to know that their values are qualified by their interests and corrupted by their prejudices.
intelligent men
Men are not nearly as evolved as women are, nor as intelligent, evidently Sarah MacLean
intelligent people causes
Whenever the cause of the people is entrusted to professors, it is lost. Vladimir Lenin
intelligent cerebral
He is far too intelligent to become really cerebral. Ursula K. Le Guin
intelligent people ability
The higher the IQ the lower the EQ. The more intelligent you are, the lower your ability is to communicate emotionally with people. Roberto Orci
intelligent animal long-ago
It wasn't so long ago when all the so-called scientists said that humans were intelligent and that animals weren't, humans were the solitary unchallenged masters of the globe and probably the universe and the only question was whether we were handling our mastery well. (No. Next question.) Robin McKinley
intelligent play climbing
He liked to play chess and do intelligent things, and I was a serious drinker and nonthinker. Warren G. Harding
intelligent america government
The success of our popular government rests wholly upon the correct interpretation of the deliberate, intelligent, dependable popular will of America.
individual jacques team
Jacques Lemaire said when a team fails, no individual is successful, ... When a team is successful, all the individuals are successful. Bobby Holik
individual personal reasons
It is not to be used for personal reasons or by individual personalities.
individualism
I really like individualism based on truth. Tyler Blackburn
individuality groups mediocrity
You know you've reached a new plateau of group mediocrity when even a Canadian is alarmed by your lack of individuality. Sarah Vowell
individuality individual
We differ from one another in our individual gifts which, however, belong to our inner nature. Rudolf Steiner
individuality would-be wanted
I wanted to retain my individuality. I was afraid of being hampered by studio policies. I knew if someone else got control, I would be restrained. Walt Disney
individuality conformity institutions
The eager and often inconsiderate appeals of reformers and revolutionists are indispensable to counterbalance the inertia and fossilism marking so large a part of human institutions. Walt Whitman
individual persons urges
I hold that any religion that satisfies the individual urge is valid for that person. Zora Neale Hurston
individual-differences challenges unity
The challenge for the church is how do we have unity about basic beliefs and yet respect individual differences. William P. Leahy