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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 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.
selfish insecure scared
We're connected, as women. It's like a spiderweb. If one part of that web vibrates, if there's trouble, we all know it, but most of the time we're just too scared, or selfish, or insecure to help. But if we don't help each other, who will? Sarah Addison Allen
society thousand ten
These families, you know, are our upper crust, not upper ten thousand. James F. Cooper
society
Should not the Society of Indexers be know as Indexers, Society of, The? Keith Waterhouse
society disease want
Those who have resources within themselves, who can dare to live alone, want friends the least, but, at the same time, best know how to prize them the most. But no company is far preferable to bad, because we are more apt to catch the vices of others than their virtues, as disease is far more contagious than health. Charles Caleb Colton
society alive intimacy
Society, dead or alive, can have no charm without intimacy and no intimacy without an interest in trifles. Arthur Balfour
society crime individual
Is it not a terrible thing to be forced by society to do things which all of us as individuals regard as abominable crimes? Albert Einstein
society morality citizenship
A nation, as a society, forms a moral person, and every member of it is personally responsible for his society. Thomas Jefferson
society firsts groups
Before a group can enter the open society, it must first close ranks. Stokely Carmichael
society trying republic
Society is a republic. When an individual tries to lift themselves above others, they are dragged down by the mass, either by ridicule or slander. Victor Hugo
society morality bane
Morality, thou deadly bane,Thy tens o' thousands thou has slain! Robert Burns
truth-is christ relation
No one truth is rightly held till it is clearly conceived and stated, and no single truth is adequately comprehended till it is viewed in harmonious relations to all the other truths of the system of which Christ is the centre A. Hodge
truthful i-can
I can be glib and truthful all at once. Richard Russo
truth reality way
There is only one way to gain access to the truth and that is to not expect anything. Robert De Niro
truth honesty reality
Honesty is not synonymous with truth. Vera Farmiga
truth believe reality
People say they love truth, but in reality they want to believe that which they love is true. Robert Ringer
truth lying reality
What is it with you people? You think not getting caught in a lie is the same thing as telling the truth? Robert Redford
truth lying world
It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentionally lying that there is so much falsehood in the world. Samuel Johnson
truth reputation life-is
Truth, such as is necessary to the reputation of life, is always found where it is honestly sought.
truth reality television
She's television generation. She learned life from Bugs Bunny. The only reality she knows comes to her through the television set. William Holden