Sentences with phrase «individual selfishness»

Some theorists suggest that evolution also operates on groups — when individuals within a group cooperate, their group may have survival advantages over groups with rigid individual selfishness.

People have the power to force changes yet it is individual selfishness that stops progress, well done for being another mindless sheep.

Given two assumptions, standard in economic theory, the judgment that individual selfishness promotes the common good should work.

Not exact matches

He said, «Real leaders are individuals who help us overcome the limitations of our own weakness, and selfishness, and laziness, and fears, and get us to do harder, better things than we can get ourselves to do on our own.»

As we have said, many individual AA's do recognize the symptomatic nature of selfishness and negative feelings.

In today's consumer - oriented, capitalistic culture, where people are used, abused and disposed of like nonreturnable soft - drink cans, where «liberation» has been invoked to justify selfishness, it may be that the time has come for the church to say again what it has always believed — that there is no way for individuals to «flourish» without the kind of communion and community and the permanent, deep, risky commitment that true Christian love demands — qualities that are perhaps best experienced in the yoking of a man and a woman in marriage.

Call it selfishness if you want, but if individuals do not look out for themselves, then basically the species would have died off millenia ago.

Capitalistic selfishness of individuals and companies, raised to the level of a supreme principle of public policy, does not promote the true liberation of humans from selfishness, hatred and delusion, but rather worsens the human condition almost everywhere.

The single achievement of the modern conservative movement in this country has been to convince millions of weak minded individuals that selfishness, greed, and hatred for those who are less fortunate are good, Christian values.

Capitalistic selfishness of individuals and companies, raised to the level of a supreme principle of public policy, does not promote true liberation of humans from selfishness, hatred and delusion, but rather worsens the human condition almost everywhere.

In order to progress towards the ideal proposed by the religions the renunciation of selfishness by individuals at personal level should lead to a social concern for a positive loving caring for all, especially the many in dire need in our globalized society.

Power and authority which determine the sphere of freedom without the free assent of the individual are indeed dangerous and only too often become depraved by the guilty selfishness of those in command, but they are not by their very nature immoral opponents of freedom.

This is true whether the sin is the selfishness and self - righteousness of the individual human spirit or the collective sin of global destruction.

A. Rand won a cult following with two best - selling novels presenting her belief that all real achievement comes from individual ability and effort, that laissez - faire capitalism is most congenial to the exercise of talent, and that selfishness is a virtue, altruism a vice.

However its the middlemen or some individuals make this system complex with their narrow mindedness for their selfishness.

But eventually the determination to throw off all authority — except God «s — won the day, resulting in a new political concept of government and of the public good: the duty of the government was to restrain the selfishness of the individual for the sake of the common good.

Human affliction, especially the monstrous inhumanity of man to man, was to them a practical, rather than a theoretical, problem; it represented not only a conflict of ideas but a conflict of individual and class interests, a struggle for justice in personal character or social organization against selfishness, ill will, and inequity.

In my effort to argue that suicide is an individual act of selfishness that negates one's responsibility to the human community, I did slight the suffering of those in their final days or hours when death is imminent and pain is intolerable.

Christian life means continual assimilation of the mystery of the cross in the light against individual and social selfishness.

The single greatest achievement of the «conservative» movement in this country has been to convince millions of week minded individuals that selfishness, greed, and hate for those who are less fortunate, are good Christian values.

Looking at the Bible from a Academic perspective you can not dismiss its effect on helping an individual control selfishness to the benefit of society.

However, much like an episode of the Simpsons where Monty Burns abates the safety inspector's concerns with ambiguity and charm, or where a banking crash is blamed on an individual's greed and selfishness rather than on inadequate regulation and recklessness from those at the top, Wenger will paper over the cracks from now until the end of the transfer window.

[8] Indeed, studies on human behaviour seem to indicate an overall tendency for selfishness to dominate when individuals act at the collective level.

Individual freedom and social responsibility may sound like humanistic concepts, but an investigation of the genetic circuitry of bacteria suggests that even the simplest creatures can make difficult choices that strike a balance between selflessness and selfishness.

After establishing that people who scored high on measures of entitled personality were less likely to follow instructions, they provided a set of scenarios to try to understand why the entitled individuals ignore the instructions: selfishness, control, or punishment.

It's a fictitious species that represents the individual economic agent, motivated by selfishness.

Many wonder how, if selection rewards the individual only for behavior that enhances his own survival and reproductive success, such pure selfishness can lead to any sound ethics.

Selfish individuals would still appear spontaneously and would tend to have more offspring, edging out more generous members of a species and ensuring the persistence of selfishness.

Deftly intertwining past and present, the thirteen episodes are a slow - burn build toward ever - more - awful bombshells that, ultimately, expose both individuals» and communities» capacities for selfishness and cruelty.

Progressives in America have always viewed those mediating institutions that stand between the individual and the government with suspicion, seeing them as instruments of division, prejudice, and selfishness or as power centers lacking in democratic legitimacy.

[30] Moreover, as John Dewey remarked at the turn of the century, anyone seriously troubled about rampant individualism among children would promptly target for extinction the «drill - and - skill» approach to instruction: «The mere absorbing of facts and truths is so exclusively individual an affair that it tends very naturally to pass into selfishness.»

A society where each individual acts as a little tyrant, pursuing his desires with total selfishness at the expense of everyone else becomes collectivist as the little tyrants turn to a series of big tyrants to get what they want no matter who gets hurt by it.