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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.
stubborn use good-things
Being stubborn can be a good thing. Being stubborn can be a bad thing. It just depends on how you use it. Willie Aames
stubborn mouths mules
I have opinions on everything. I'm a stubborn old mule. The biggest problem is keeping my mouth shut. Mika
stubborn grit quitting
Grit is the stubborn refusal to quit. Jonah Lehrer
stubborn lions england
Roused by the lash of his own stubborn tail our lion now will foreign foes assail. John Dryden
stubborn prejudice has-beens
It has been sagaciously conjectured, that the artful legislator indulged the stubborn prejudices of his countrymen. Edward Gibbon
stubborn
We're still going to be stubborn about that. Tim Lappano
stubborn yeah beaks
Thoth's beak! You are impossibley stubborn." "Yeah, it's a gift. Rick Riordan
stubborn mules jackasses
Mules and human jackasses are proverbially stubborn. Thomas Chandler Haliburton
stubborn world opinion
There is more respect to be won in the opinion of this world by a resolute and courageous liquidation of unsound positions than by the most stubborn pursuit of extravagant or unpromising objectives. George F. Kennan