Sentences with phrase «selfishness at»

A society where each individual acts as a little tyrant, pursuing his desires with total selfishness at the expense of everyone else becomes collectivist as the little tyrants turn to a series of big tyrants to get what they want no matter who gets hurt by it.

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

The London mayor's defence of greed and envy as Good Things has very truthfully revealed the fundamental selfishness at the heart of Conservatism - or so I argued in an unusually opinionated outburst on the website this week.

Walcott and Apkom had a lot to prove which may explain their selfishness at times today but they both played well.

Not exact matches

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

Before I came to the Lord, I was full of sin and would have acted badly more then once, I would have felt just - i - fied in my selfishness, and would have not felt any remorse at all.

Nor does she mean by «selfishness» caring for oneself at the expense of others but merely a concern for oneself that, far from precluding helping others, could necessitate dying for a high - enough value, such as one's country or spouse.

The director may have intended to draw the audience into complicity with the lovers» selfishness — and in fact, I was surprised at how long it took for the audience to stop laughing at Ernest, to lose their edgy sympathy for the lovers — but the ultimate effect was simply to make the lovers» erotic demands seem further from our own.

The contenders for mankind's greatest problem are many — war, terrorism, poverty, disease, starvation and, at the root of everything, selfishness.

The heart of what I'm really getting at is selfishness.

Let's be honest though, at the core of living through our children is pride and selfishness on our part.

It is passing strange that the same people who describe ours as a society driven by selfishness and greed are, at the same time, so insouciant about giving people permission to kill others whom they find burdensome.

No, I believe that tough love means going down deep, to battle our own selfishness, our own anger, our own frustrations, our fears, our temptations to choose being right over being gracious, to give up on having he last word, to stop convincing by arguing and harsh invectives, pinches and pricks, to win at all costs.

Greed, ambition, selfishness, jealousy, lust, lying, favoritism, dissension, hatred, competition... you name it... all these are at the doorstep.

OK let me ask you this one thing this one thing.how much money and time and feeding the poor.in the country and place you live at right now???? In a three year time span @@@@@ jeeeezy I gave out of my personal money $ 20,000 Thousands us dallors that's more then 30 years worth of income in some of the most religious dirt poor countries that's a fact.you can't give or received with a closed tight hand of selfishness and bitterness now @@@@@@@@ jeeeez how much have you given too help feed clothed and shelter the poor?

However, an individualism guided instead by a desire for material gain and emotional ease is nothing more than selfishness — a heartless, sinful selfishness that exacerbates the dangers of division and materialism, eats away at the moral fiber of our society and threatens to destroy the fabric that holds us together.

Divisions, fighting and selfishness occurred because everyone was trying to get his or her fill of physical food at the worship service.

Divisions, fighting and selfishness occur because everyone is trying to get his or her fill of spiritual food at the worship service.

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.

At the same time, he insisted both that salvation meant primarily the persuasion of men and women to live after God's law, and that it also meant redeeming evil institutions from selfishness and greed.

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.»

It differed from Calvinist theology in that it judged that instead of resisting this selfishness, in economic transactions, at least, it should be accepted.

I am appalled at the selfishness of American conservative Christians.

At the same time it acts in the belief that testifying to the principles of freedom and justice is a mandate that can not be avoided, and that — potentially — action based on these liberating principles can indeed transform structures built upon human selfishness.

Actually is it not true that though we do know ourselves helpless to do God's perfect will, helpless to resist successfully the temptations to pride and selfishness which assail us in every area of our life and at every level of moral endeavor, we nevertheless know that we are guilty before God and that we should be guilty even if we should make the maximum effort of which human flesh is capable?

Wouldn't it make sense that a church made up of flawed and broken people humbly seeking Christ would still struggle at times with the selfishness that lies in every heart?

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

We have to look at the root of the problem: ourselves, our selfishness, our pride and our lack of love for ourselves, for each other and for God When it comes to these issues only God could really change us.

Second, at the heart of every act is selfishness.

Then there is the Judgement Seat of Christ, where Jesus will evaluate our lives post salvation, it is at this event rewards for repentance will be issued or lost, the main sin repented of in believers being selfishness and selfish living.

As a result, he reports, he has freed up more family resources for his daughter, prevented the conversation at home from being dominated by kids, and generally found it easier to be a parent, all out of a spirit of generosity for the planet (and not the selfishness of the contraceptive mentality).

(or at least to selfishness...)

What is at stake here is the truth that deeper in us than selfishness is our vulnerability and need for community.

Looking at the Bible from a Academic perspective you can not dismiss its effect on helping an individual control selfishness to the benefit of society.

i cant just understand why arsene, one person one employee would hold such a huge club as arsenal at ransom by his inaction or silence about his future, i find that the epitome of selfishness where its all about him and he cant just separate himself as an employee and arsenal as a separate entity a club, when will this nightmare end my friends??

We have so many players who are exceptional at certain elements of the game but we really needed that x-factor who's capable of anything... Unfortunately, selfishness seems to come with the ability

However, much like an episode of the Simpsons where Monty Burns abates the safety inspector's concerns with ambiguity and charm, or where a banking crash is blamed on an individual's greed and selfishness rather than on inadequate regulation and recklessness from those at the top, Wenger will paper over the cracks from now until the end of the transfer window.

Former Arsenal player has claimed egos, arrogance and selfishness are holding young players from succeeding at the highest level.

Yet marriage and motherhood demand a level of selflessness that is at odds with the inherent selfishness of desire.

This person is putting those children at massive risk because of her selfishness.

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

Compare this to the Tory agenda of profiteering and wealth protection for those at the top; creating an army of unemployed people to force down pay whilst demonising the vulnerable, setting people against one another and underpinning the whole twisted ideology with a culture of fear, hatred and selfishness.

According to Mr. Rawlings during the 38th anniversary of the June 4 celebration practices such as sickening greed, selfishness and corruption that is contrary to the values upheld by the NDC and ideals of June 4 he caused the party's disgraceful defeat at the polls

«Nobody is saying don't make money, make it good and clean; but not some of the ones I know; sickening, that kind of greed and selfishness, look at where it landed us.

[8] Indeed, studies on human behaviour seem to indicate an overall tendency for selfishness to dominate when individuals act at the collective level.

Speaking at a wreath - laying ceremony at the Revolution Square in Accra Thursday morning to mark the 34th anniversary of the 31st December Revolution, the former President said corruption, greed and selfishness was the order of the day in present day Ghana.

If people are born with certain drives, if certain ignoble traits, such as violence and selfishness, are innate, then that might make them unchangeable, and attempts at social reform and human improvement might be proven to be a waste of time.

The subjects were given three tests that revealed their willingness to punish selfishness — even at a cost to the punisher.

They want to look, for instance, at how timing might affect self - control in choices involving saving money versus spending money, or deciding between an act of altruism versus an act of selfishness.

You don't have to come to have good sex, however, at least trying to get her halfway there is a plus — in other words, spread the love boys, selfishness in bed is a no - go.