Sentences with phrase «pure selfishness»

«There are quite a few intellectuals in Germany, most of all Günter Grass, who I hate because they're defending something [East Germany] out of pure selfishness, and that's why I don't like them, and especially as they have retouched their past, or rather concealed it.

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.

It is not pure selfishness in the Darwinian sense, like a stag that picks a fight with another.

But to put your unborn childs health at risk is pure selfishness.

His reason is pure selfishness.

The idea that true rationality is pure selfishness, and that one's self - interest is always to get the most one can for oneself, is becoming more pervasive in our society.

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There can be no such thing as pure «selfishness since no self originates or exists in isolation from others and even the most subjective interest is still of a social nature.

It's a pure, unconditional love that has nothing to do with selfishness and everything to do with compassion through a mother's eyes.

Picabia outmaneuvered much of Surrealism in works like Untitled (Spanish Woman and Lamb of the Apocalypse)(1927), from his Transparenices series of paintings that takes him through the 1930s, then into the unapologetic kitsch «realism» of Spring (c. 1942 - 43), and, finally, to the anything - but - pure «abstraction» of what would become his last works, paintings like Selfishness (1950) and the aptly - titled Salary Is the Reason for Work (1949).