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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. Richard Dawkins
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. Richard Dawkins
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. Woodrow Wilson
selfishness agents confidential
Caution is the confidential agent of selfishness. Woodrow Wilson
evil good men needed prosper
The only thing needed for evil to prosper is for good men to do nothing. Edmund Burke
evil deeds stills
This is the course of every evil deed, that, propagating still it brings forth evil. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
evil consciousness
No evil is insupportable but that which is accompanied with consciousness of wrong. Samuel Johnson
evil grows concealment
Evil is nourished and grows by concealment. Virgil
evil mind trying
Let us keep courage and try to be patient and gentle. And let us not mind being eccentric, and make distinction between good and evil. Vincent Van Gogh
evil imperfection judgment
To sit in judgment of those things which you perceive to be wrong or imperfect is to be one more person who is part of judgment, evil or imperfection. Wayne Dyer
evil selfishness persecution
There can be no Good Will. Will is always Evil; it is persecution to others or selfishness. William Blake
evil-love evil paradise
wherever you find the greatest good, you will find the greatest evil, because evil loves paradise as much as good. Wallace Stegner
evil use done
Centres, or centre-pieces of wood, are put by builders under an arch of stone while it is in the process of construction till the keystone is put in. Just such is the use Satan makes of pleasures to construct evil habits upon; the pleasure lasts till the habit is fully formed; but that done the habit may stand eternal. The pleasures are sent for firewood, and the hell begins in this life. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
might point turning
I think that might have been a turning point in the game. Mike Kemp
might pizza worried
I was worried I might end up on a pizza advert. Ben Kay
might rain unless
Unless we get rain to soften it up, if it's windy then 2 or 3 under might not win. Fred Couples
might seems time
Hysteria is something that I've been interested for a very long time. I thought I might have it, but it seems that it's unlikely. Siri Hustvedt
might sandwich wearing
He might as well have been wearing a sandwich board, with 'Eat At Joe's' on one side, ... and 'I'm bunting' on the other. Mike Hargrove
might accepted ifs
Maybe, if we just accepted our deaths, we might finally start to live. Richard Paul Evans
might musician belief
I might respect you as a brilliant intellect, runner, musician or juggler. But respect your BELIEFS? Only if they're supported by evidence. Richard Dawkins
might enthusiasm reason
All the things you would do gladly, oh without enthusiasm, but gladly, all the things there seems no reason for your not doing, and that you do not do! Can it be we are not free? It might be worth looking into. Samuel Beckett
might film disaster
If the film is a hit then everyone shares the success. If it is going to be a disaster then it might as well be because of me, not because of somebody else. Salman Khan