Sentences with phrase «one's own selfish ends»

Rather than use the Machine for selfish ends, they use it to give up their very self - identity in order to save others.

Only the person who sought his own selfish end could succeed.

Both were desperate to start a religion for their own selfish ends.

Used for selfish ends of domination and control, power is a distorted form of self - affirmation.

But if we turned our backs on one another and pursued our own selfish ends then God would curse us.

«I have felt that Vanderbilt University was Methodist, not in the sense that Methodists made it, but in the sense that it was a great trust committed to the Methodist Church to be carried out, not for selfish ends, but for the good of society and the upbuilding of Christ's kingdom.»

Alone, we are basically egocentric creatures who will only use serenity, courage and wisdom to achieve our own selfish ends.

«China will not engage in geopolitical games for selfish ends, nor will it create an exclusive club, nor will it force trade deals on others from above,» he said.

The violence - prone masculine psyche drives us to racism, colonialism, imperialism and other types of oppression which are in fact extensions of the male - female pattern that lets us project the dark side of ourselves onto the other and so allows us to use / abuse other human beings for our own selfish ends.

Naomi Klein, in her book Shock Doctrine, suggests that governments will use this for selfish ends, i.e.: create the crisis to change the mind of the public.

In the end, the author believes that the Enlightenment thinkers developed a «theological» model, even though he completes this exhaustive study by citing a grim text from one of Nietzsche's «Letters» that sounds anything but theological: ««The family will be slowly ground into a random collection of individuals,» haphazardly bound together «in the common pursuit of selfish ends.

The special capacities of man — the glory of his knowledge, art, and invention, the wonder of his powers for sympathy, love, and reverence, as well as the tragedy of their perversion for selfish ends — have for centuries been faithfully acknowledged and appropriately celebrated through arts, letters, philosophy, and religion.

-- As citizens of our country, we are responsible for demanding that our leaders beat swords into ploughshares and relate to other nations peacefully and in a spirit of cooperation; that they recognize the legitimate aspirations of all the communities of the human family; and that they do not abuse sovereign powers to manipulate people and nature for shortsighted and selfish ends.

And because there are those who would exploit religious fervor for their own selfish ends.

I'm using the story as a paradigm that I think has been abused... or used for the selfish ends of leadership.

Those three methods (of government) Thought olden ways in elegance did fail And made these names their want of worth to veil; But simple views, and courses plain and true Would selfish ends and many lusts eschew.

Naomi Klein, in her book Shock Doctrine, suggests that governments will use this for selfish ends, i.e.:...

For example, from it came Lanfranc and Anselm, successively Archbishops of Canterbury, who stood resolutely for the Church against forces which sought to use it for selfish ends.

That is the systemic ruin, all for selfish ends, IBB's old «new breed», has wrought on the political party system.

still hovers over the polity, where some players, back then, tried to hide the state of health of the president, for their own selfish ends.

Governor Sani Bello regretted that the perpetrators of such false, malicious and ungodly speculations and those calling for his resignation either wanted to overheat the polity for their selfish end or are completely ignorant of the country's constitutional provisions.

Governor Sani Bello said the state government would not fold its arms and allow some overzealously repugnant individuals hold people to ransom by instilling fear, anxiety and tension amongst them for their selfish end.

The last parliament was actually a disaster, as members (both majority and minority) were almost always fighting for their own selfish ends to the detriment of their constituents.

The rest referred to instances where those in public power used that power for private, selfish ends.

The statement reads in part: «The news about this event is, at worst, the handiwork of some opportunists, political jobbers and shortsighted schemers who are out to do all they can to create power struggles for nothing but, their own selfish ends.

Yes it does, for astronomers are not protecting their selfish ends.

Each vignette offers a self - contained, twisted tale with a deeply disturbing conclusion — all the while critiquing the ways we employ advancing technology to cruel and selfish ends.

In fact, Marc's decision to leave the campground to stay at the summer house was for his own selfish ends.

Focusing on the short - run can lead governments and companies to focus on manipulating budget and earnings numbers to fulfill their own selfish ends.