Sentences with phrase «selfish individuals»

The state is not an institution created by selfish individuals to stand over and against them because they do not trust anybody, even themselves.

I'm trying to get myself out of this habit but I am a horribly selfish individual.

As I have said earlier, Jonathan parades group of selfish individuals but they never worsened Nigerian economy but grown it up to $ 500bn and 21st economy as 2015 international rating alongside 5th world purchasing power.

Our chiefs are losing respect because they are seen as selfish individuals who are very hypocritical.

If a chaplain can't do right by the soldiers and sailors who serve our country, they should should replaced by less selfish individuals.

But Weasel remains just absolutely the most selfish individual on the face of the planet.»

Historical figures from the Muslim world were often known for their noble actions and decency and fostering intercultural exchange and education... but sadly politicoes and power hungry selfish individuals have created a perverted image of the religion and its peoples by purporting that their actions are supported by Islam when in fact they are not.

Above all, such a vision recognised that society is founded first and foremost not upon a Socialist collective, nor indeed upon a collection of atomised selfish individuals, but upon that small collectivity, the family, wherein the individuality of each is neither to be swallowed up nor obliterated.

As the adoptee, it just seems like to me that the distorted perceptions and narrow mindedness about open verses closed adoptions come from selfish individuals who are more concerned about full - filling their own personal needs than that of a child.

As an academic evolutionist, I knew that prosociality can evolve in any species when highly prosocial individuals are able to interact with each other and avoid interacting with selfish individuals — in other words, when those who give also receive.

The dilemma of payoffs from social benefits being generally higher when individuals co-operate, while selfish individuals do better than co-operators within groups, presents a temptation to defect and hence an evolutionary paradox.

«These future groups could then detect and exclude more selfish individuals, ensuring they could avoid being taken advantage of.»

The first demands that we forget his desire to resign, despite his friends» presence in his regiment, and the second requires that we sympathize with a ludicrously selfish individual — a man who would risk his life just to prove someone wrong.

Introduction of commercial structures in the park will only create an opportunity for greedy selfish individuals to privatize and manipulate the public for their own gain.

The statement of the Australian Roman Catholic Bishops on wealth in Australia asserts the principle that a healthy society is not made up of a collection of selfish individuals, each struggling solely for his or her own interests.

Yet simultaneously, the film is conventional in its character arcs, predetermined for its terribly flawed central character to become a less selfish individual and learn some important life lessons.

Instead the brood comes off as fourteen of the most selfish individuals to live under one roof.

He is too stiff - upper - lip English with bottled - up emotions, while she is a rarely deviates from being a domineering, self - centered and selfish individual who puts herself ahead of her husband and — more importantly — her child.

And the disciple who can give alms will quietly question a politics that thinks it must choose between the maternal state and the selfish individual.

That is not a team player that is a selfish individual — so I am sorry I hope he leaves for the sake of the team next season.

You are a sad, selfish individual and your willingness to engage in class warfare will soon blow up on you.

On his twitter handle on Wednesday, April 11 after the minority's press conference, Mr Alban Bagbin alleged that some selfish individuals wanting to lead the party might have leaked the names to the CID.

A group of altruists will beat a society of selfish individuals every time.

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.

Helen is a deeply sad, selfish individual, and while Collins captures that aspect of her personality, she's also got that movie star quality about her, the glamorous, elegance edge that the role requires.

• Never use pronouns such as «I» and «me» in your resume as they portray self - indulgence and you do not want to be perceived as a selfish individual.