Sentences with phrase «often selfishness»

Very often selfishness in people is more than honor.

In this world «often the selfishness of a few will not permit the weaker ones to benefit fully from resources and other goods, from commerce, scientific discoveries, the benefits of new technology; all this can help to negate the equal right of every people to be seated at the table of the common banquet.»

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At the start of the interview, Saban discussed how success often breeds a sense of selfishness or laziness.

Dig deeper, and you'll often find motives that are far messier — selfishness, revenge, fear of failure, a need to prove oneself to a seemingly unloving parent and many other things that most people would be reluctant to admit, if they were even aware of those motives in the first place.

When one of my kids finds him or herself in a predicament in which they're having a negative attitude or they're portraying selfishness, I'll often use those situations as teaching moments for what it means to be light.

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.

Yes, addictive behaviors often begin with a moral failing like selfishness or overindulgence.

(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.)

It is not the will of God that children suffer from hunger and malnutrition and grow up in unsanitary slums with lack of proper education, that persons because of the color of their skin are debarred from schools, hospitals, employment, or housing projects; that persons are denied other basic human rights; that personalities and homes are broken through drink and that great numbers die on highways through drunken driving; that marriage vows are often taken lightly and that easy divorces shatter home after home and leave children the pawns of the parents» selfishness.

Selfishness is why marriages fail, and why divorces often follow that failure.

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.

Selfishness is the main reason marriages break down, and most often statistics show it is one partner that wants a divorce while the other wants to make it work.

The world created, «so often disfigured by selfishness and greed», has in itself a «Eucharistic potential»: it is «destined to be assumed in the Eucharist of the Lord, in his Passover, present in the sacrifice of the altar» (Orientale lumen, n. 11).»

The excuse of «personal freedom» often results in decadence, selfishness, greed, gluttony, self - centeredness, sexual - immorality, misuse of money, mistreatment of others, and a wide variety of other sins of the flesh (see The Myth of a Christian Religion, p. 85).

Any view of man which regards pride, selfishness, self - love, or self - idolatry as the major cause of man's problems misses the crucial fact that these are often symptoms of deeper causes anxiety, self - hatred, inner conflict, and blocked growth.

Our tendency to reduce all these to sin and selfishness is often an abstraction.

This developmental selfishness is a quality that often protects younger children from the kind of anxiety that the adults around them are experiencing.

They insist that Mario Cuomo got more done than he is often remembered for: holding firm against the death penalty, protecting the safety net in the era of selfishness, and, yes, even passing mundane reforms like a seat - belt law.

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).

In fact, it's often seen as a sign of vanity or selfishness if you don't join in on verbally bashing your own body.

Compromise is often touted as the key to a successful marriage, which essentially means not indulging selfishness to the nth degree.

Barry (Tony Goldwyn) is the boss, an obviously mercenary snake who dresses his selfishness up in doublespeak about «the good of the team,» while a variety of supporting characters serve to furnish the various stereotypes that are often required of this sort of narrative (wacky gay guy, stoner, quietly desperate old maid, and so on).

The selfishness of humanity, the loneliness of your surroundings, and the sadness you felt at felling these often majestic ancient creatures are feelings I will never forget.

Evolutionary models of behavior often encounter resistance due to an apparent focus on themes of sex, selfishness, and gender differences.

Often the cause is not incompatibility but selfishness.»