Sentences with phrase «of selfishness»

you know the power to strike and hurt people... out of selfishness of that person.

How many have to die needlessly from runaway STDs because of the selfishness of pursuit of self - gratification at any cost.

I think his continuation in office is an act of selfishness of historic proportions,» he said.

San Jose has become the rare team on which players do not extend their shifts, the most common form of selfishness in the NHL.

The wolf in sheep's clothing on this path takes the form of selfishness in the skin of responsibility; ten dollars to the food bank once a month makes us automatically virtuous.

The future generations of our country are losing their opportunities and freedoms because of the selfishness of those who have and continue to rob our country of its goodness and greatness.

But he is himself inclined to reject personal immortality on the ground that to wish for it is to indulge in a kind of selfishness which refuses to accept and rejoice in any accomplishment of goodness or truth or beauty unless «I» can have a personal share in its triumph.

But this level of selfishness is too terrible to think about, so most of us will turn a blind eye to our atrocities, just as most scholars have refused to see the atrocities of the Carthaginians.

What Rebecca said was true the Pattern repeated itself in Beryl's life and there also appeared to be a bit of selfishness in all her relationships.

The oft - repeated idea that the job crisis was a result of selfishness on the part of elected officials and an infringement of their obligations to the citizenry highlights the need to take seriously «contemporary needs for care, moral connection and responsible obligations in ways that emancipatory liberal rights talk often does not» (Ferguson 2013: 237).

The most heartbreaking moment of selfishness comes in the other segment where the elderly Imma (Shirley Henderson) has herself flayed alive in a vain attempt to match her sister Dora's beauty, the latter being enchanted by a witch into a lovely maiden.

Eckhart does talk about compelling God, but you compel God by your emptiness and by getting rid of all your selfishness and by total detachment.

If traditionally published authors have any sense of selfishness at all, they'd want to gain this knowledge for themselves:

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

They tend to sink into self - pity, which is the most miserable type of selfishness, as well as perhaps the most potent factor for loneliness and self - isolation.

Our current society in America has become non-religious and it has only brought a huge amount of selfishness, materialism and lack of charity.

And the way to avoid being hurt is to wall oneself off from others with work, hobbies etc.and be wrapped up in the coffin of selfishness.

During this age bracket, your child may also begin to show signs of selfishness and unwillingness to share.

We are surrounded by a culture of selfishness.

True holiness was just the opposite of selfishness: it was selfless love, which poured itself out on all beings in general because they were the creatures of God.

It's very rarely an issue of selfishness.

In her book, The Virtue of Selfishness, Ayn Rand proposed, on the basis of objective rationalistic logic, that individual self - interest or «what's good for me is good» as the measure of «good» behavior.

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.

There's a lot of judgment towards weaning and breastfeeding, including accusations of selfishness no matter which is chosen.

Much as we may dislike the doctrine of original sin — and indeed it has often been formulated in a way that must antagonize any man of sense and good will — there would appear to be in human beings the seeds of selfishness, arrogance, brutality, callousness, the lust for power, jealousy, hatred and all the rest of the miserable host of evil.

But he must accept this redemption with the turning of his whole being, for only thus can he extricate himself from the maze of selfishness where he has always set himself as his goal and find a way to God and to the fulfillment of the particular task for which he is intended.

My learning has been partially the result of a via negativa, recognizing not only the absence of mutuality and justice but an active opposition to it in the doctrines of selfishness and domination incarnate in Reagan - Bush.

So eager to bring young minds into your belief in nothing that produces legacies of selfishness and false arrogance.

This meant the abandonment of worldly pleasures and the absolute denial of selfishness for the sake of God.

For some who came into religion from a life of selfishness and greed, and who managed to use these beliefs to control these impulses, I would say there has been a benefit, but not all believers will automatically become serial killers once they stop having faith as the pastors love to preach.

She was an advocate of selfishness, cruelty, and greed.

Ayn Rand's philosophy of selfishness at the expense of the group is by definition an amoral philosophy not a moral one, as it completely lacks any and all morals, as all your rules are made and broken by the dictates of your own ego and lusts, at the times you have them.

They will seem like rationalizations of selfishness.

Nobody in the league has been accused of selfishness more often than Coleman.

There's a lot of selfishness around nowadays and the tendency for people to think only of themselves is on the rise... and I really don't want to contribute to that.

However once the child arrives it is a seperate entity and caring for it seems to require a great deal of selflessness, and I think my own parents are quite selfless, it's a confusing one in terms of selfishness, but I think I would have to conclude that to create a child is selfish and self - indulgent (though is it wrong to be selfish anyway?

There are also feelings of selfishness associated with this, as we never know if we're hanging on to them for our own benefit.

Confronting the attitude of selfishness now will pave the way for easier days ahead.

The film isn't about a charismatic anti-hero that you root for, it's about a failure of a man who blames the results of his selfishness on the poor hand he's been dealt.

There's plenty of selfishness all around it's just that rich people get their selfish impulses rewarded more frequently because they write big checks.

(This presumption is in fact being challenged by many people who are placing more emphasis on job satisfaction and lifestyle, but this is all too often merely a reorientation of our selfishness from one kind of satisfaction to another.)

This act of selfishness actually holds back that employee for getting the development that they deserve as is extremely de-motivating.

«Think of the selfishness of the selfie,» he says.

If you truly believe that you will have to stand before God one day and account for yourself you don't want to have a history of selfishness, greed and indifference for the least among them.