Sentences with phrase «evil self interests»

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They are wise, though evil, because they understand the power of self - interest.

The church has known from the beginning that the love of money is the root of evil, that it is impossible to serve God and Mammon, that they that have riches shall hardly enter into life, that life does not consist in the abundance of things possessed, that the earth is the Lord's and that love, not self - interest, is the first law of life.

On the other hand, God must so act in the interests of both the self and all others as thereby to establish the cosmic order of natural law that sets the optimal limits of all other action, where by «optimal limits» I mean limits such that, were they to be set otherwise than they are, the ratio between opportunities for good and risks of evil would be less rather than more favorable than it in fact is.

Tories were, went the Labour line, evil and grasping and self - interested.

He condemned in its entirety the way and manner at which some media practitioners have been bastardizing the profession on self - serving interests, saying if not that his government has developed thick flesh, some media practitioners would have succeeded collapsing his government with evil antics and incitement.

Indeed the great moral battle of the next 4 years may not be so much good versus evil as cynical self interest vs evil, and at least the cold dark hand of the military industrial complex has some grounding in reality and is well organised;)

(By the way: The pursuit of money or self - interest isn't, in itself, evil at all.

Neither of these things are particularly good or evil in themselves — once again Amazon (and other subscription services) is acting in its own self - interest, as businesses do.

Discovered by Darger's landlord, these works — which are populated largely by trans - gendered and often partially clothed girls who war righteously against evil adults and monsters — are now universally considered some of the most important and interesting artworks by any self - taught artist in modern history.